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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Winners’ Circle: Foreign Exchange

LONG-TERM DEPENDABILITY By Kathryn Tully The overall winning bank and many of the regional category winners for foreign exchange have remained consistently strong for over a decade. Deutsche Bank has been the magazine’s global winner for foreign ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Latin America: Brazilian Protectionism

BARRIERS TO ENTRY By Antonio Guerrero Though its economic growth may be stalling, Brazil is still an attractive destination for investors. But the recent imposition of tariffs on certain imports has sparked an international ruckus. For several ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Latin America: Rise Of The Mexican Jaguar

RISE OF THE “JAGUAR” By Antonio Guerrero Mexico’s new business-friendly president has promised to open up state-owned oil companies to private investment. If so, Mexico could overtake Brazil as the region’s largest economy within a decade. Photo ...

Banking

Milestone: Bulgaria Puts Bid To Join Eurozone On Hold

MILESTONES: BULGARIA By Valentina Pasquali With the eurozone debt crisis dragging on and membership in the currency union becoming increasingly less appealing, the Bulgarian government recently froze its bid to join the eurozone. Bulgarian economy is outperforming its ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestone: Slovenia: Next In Line For A Bailout?

MILESTONES: SLOVENIA By Valentina Pasquali With all eyes on the much larger Spain and Italy, Slovenia might actually turn out to be the next eurozone country in line for a bailout. Bets are on as to whether ...

Banking

Newsmaker: First Democratically Elected PM An Unknown Quantity

NEWSMAKERS: GEORGIA By Valentina Pasquali Over the past few years, investors’ love story with Georgia flourished under the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, who spearheaded a sweeping liberal economic agenda since coming to power a decade ago. Bidzina ...

Banking

Newsmaker: Turkey Transitions To Investment Grade

NEWSMAKERS: TURKEY By Dan Keeler Turkey’s authorities are concerned that the economic boost provided by an upgrade to investment grade by Fitch Ratings could trigger some unwelcome side effects. Erdem Baç says he can keep inflation in check ...

Banking

Salon: Luigi Zingales Populist Revolt

POPULIST REVOLT By Vanessa Drucker Global Finance held its monthly Salon in the magazine’s New York office with Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago and author ...

Award Winners

STARS OF CHINA 2012

Global Finance names the Stars of China 2012 NEW YORK,September 24, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global Finance has announced its...

Award Winners

Stars of China 2012: Bank Winners

By Thomas Clouse BANKS WINNERS BEST CITY COMMERCIAL Bank of Nanjing China's more than 140 city commercial banks are facing increasing competition from each other as well as their bigger national counterparts and smaller rural finance neighbors. Against this competitive ...

Award Winners

Stars of China 2012: Corporate Winners

By Thomas Clouse CORPORATE WINNERS AUTOMOBILES Great Wall Motors Competition is fierce in China's automotive industry, and slowing sales growth this year has added even more pressure to the country's automotive producers. Great Wall has responded to that pressure with ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury And Trade: Convergence

THE STARS ALIGN By Rebecca Brace As treasurers seek to optimize liquidity and working capital, cash and trade solutions are increasingly in sync. Treasury and trade used to be two separate disciplines. But in recent years there ...