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Editor’s Letter : Business As Usual
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Errant Manufacturers Feel The Heat
China Cost concerns: Rising food prices are fueling inflation. Investors anxious about overheating in the Chinese market had more cause for concern this month as China’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed that consumer prices rose by 5.6%, year ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : International banks enjoy Brazilian boom times
Brazil Brazil’s strong capital markets recovery and IPO blitz has prompted international investment banks to put the country back on their radars. Lehman Brothers, which exited Brazil in 2003 amid a near market collapse, has reopened its São ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Kremlin-connected magnate attracts aluminum deal
Russia Friends in high places: Deripaska (right) and Putin. French oil firm Total unexpectedly signed a deal in mid-July with Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom to help develop the massive Shtokman natural gas field. The Russian government had earlier ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Records Fall As Indian Business Thrives
India On track: Delhis new subway trains. The metro railway authority in New Delhi placed a record order for 340 subway coaches with Bombardier Transportation, Montreal-based Bombardier’s Indian subsidiary. Worth $590 million, the order is the largest ever ...
Country Report
Features : Fast Forward
ISRAEL Past wars and threats of future ones just can’t stop Israel’s economic engine plowing ahead. Past wars and threats of future ones just can't stop Israel's economic engine plowing ahead. During the past year, Israel’s economy grew ...
Award Winners
Features : Growth Explosion
INTERNET BANKING Over the past two decades, Internet banking has gone from non-existent to ubiquitous. As this year’s Global Finance Internet Banks Awards show, many of the pioneers are still dominant forces, driving the market forward. Banks have ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmakers : The unsinkable mrs. K
Argentina Double act: Nestor Kirchner and the presidential hopeful, Mrs. K. Argentine First Lady and senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is poised to replace her husband, President Nestor Kirchner, in the top post in the October 28 ...
Banking
TCM Guide 2007 : Sepa: Reaching Beyond European Borders
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: CITI Naveed Sultan is Managing Director, Head of Global Transaction Services in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) The birth of a new currency used by more than 300 million consumers is a remarkable event. Since ...
Banking
TCM Guide 2007 : Beyond Finance: The Treasurer And Supply Chain Management
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: JPMORGAN CHASE Jonathan Heuser is Vice President of Trade Services at JPMorgan Chase. Solely focusing on traditional approaches to cash management can limit a treasurer’s ability to manage working capital in a holistic way. One of ...
Banking
TCM Guide 2007 : Global Direct Remittances: Developing Low-Value Payments Capabilities
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON Eric D. Kamback is Executive Vice President and Group Head for Global Payment and Trade Services at The Bank of New York Mellon For generations, immigrants have sent ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story : A Changing Agenda
Latin America There is no longer any doubt that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” is having a significant economic and political impact on Latin America. The question now is, Will it last? It’s 11 o’clock in the ...