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Banking

Milestones: Dubai Works To Restore Reputation

Dubai By Gordon Platt and Anita Hawser Dubai: Debt resolution should improve economic fortunes Dubai moved a step closer to resolving its debt problems with the announcement of a plan to invest $9.5 billion to restructure its flagship ...

Banking

Milestones: IMF Adds Voice To Systemic Risk Debate

Global By Anita Hawser Reid: Imposing strict limits might impede growth With the concept of systemic risk still preoccupying global banking regulators, the International Monetary Fund has weighed in on the debate with some suggestions for far-reaching and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones: Mergers Back In Favor As Firms Seek Strategic Advantage

Global By Anita Hawser Mergers and acquisitions may have taken a dive during the recent financial crisis, but as the economy picks up, companies are looking to M&A; as a way to rapidly add to revenue growth in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Focus – Trade Finance

REBUILDING TRUST IN TRADE Trade finance is stabilizing, but caution is the watchword in an industry still reeling from the effects of the financial crisis. By Anita Hawser Throughout the financial crisis, trade finance, that ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones: Sovereign Funds Benefit From Global Bounce

Global By Anita Hawser Abu Dhabi: Home of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund While the past couple of years have been challenging, to say the least, for investment funds in general, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), some of ...

Banking

Features: Focus: Global Custody

Settling Up Europe’s exchanges are working hard to reduce the complexity of clearing and settlement across the region. By Anita Hawser Any custodian doing business inEurope is used to dealing with “spaghetti”—not the variety of Italian ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Newsmakers: Poor Compliance Sows Seeds Of Next Financial Meltdown

Global By Anita Hawser Johns: Compliance is key to avoiding another crash Senior banking and compliance officers surveyed by compliance solutions provider Complinet are already talking about the next financial crisis, which they believe will happen within ...

Banking

Cover Story: When Two World’s Collide

ISLAMIC FINANCING Islamic finance is set to become one of the defining phenomena of the coming decade. Some are concerned, though, that the surge of growth may compromise the strict principles on which it is founded. By ...

Banking

Newsmakers: Copenhagen Conference Reveals Deep Rifts Over Climate Change

Europe/Global By Anita Hawser Trouble ahead: Delegates failed to secure a binding treaty in Copenhagen In mid-December political leaders, environmental scientists, NGOs and lobbyists converged on Copenhagen to try to hammer out a global agreement on climate change. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: Africa Leads The Way To A New Era

EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS: AFRICA Africa’s economic development will be fueled more by its relationships with other emerging markets than with historical partners in the West. By Anita Hawser For hundreds of years Africa has represented a ...

Technology

Technology: Cloud Computing

CLOUD COMPUTING Businesses looking for cost-effective data and IT infrastructure solutions are increasingly finding the answer is in the cloud. by Anita Hawser History is littered with examples of technologies that were hyped by analysts, but ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Greening The Supply Chain

Sustainable Procurement Rising transportation costs and impending rules on carbon emissions are prompting companies to reassess their sourcing strategies. Many are realizing substantial savings in the process. By Anita Hawser When London was awarded the 2012 Olympic ...