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Economics, Policy & Regulation

Money Laundering: How Banks & Governments Can Defend Themselves

A Conversation with Dan Wachtler, President and CEO of IPSA International on the challenges of Anti-Money Laundering for Banks & Corporates and the growing role of foreign governments.

Banking

Global Finance Names The Best Derivatives Providers 2016

NEW YORK, February 15, 2016 – Global Finance magazine has named its 17th annual World’s Best Investment Banks and Derivatives Providers in an exclusive survey to be published in the April 2016 issue.

Country Report

Beijing’s Balancing Act: Growth vs. Reform

The question this year for investors in China is whether the government will continue moving toward a free-market economy—or keep grabbing the wheel.

Indian Wealth Management, The Paradigm Shift

Wealth Management in India is now completing nearly two decades in its current avatar. What started as distribution of mutual funds and insurance by Indian private sector banks, is now one of the largest sub-sectors in Indian financial services, catering ...

News

Business Gets An App For That

Smart corporates are using mobile apps to collect real-time data, analyze it and feed it to employees, who can respond immediately. Companies that neglect these tools could find themselves at a disadvantage.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Commodity Prices Deal Mozambique A Blow

Mining and gas reserves made Mozambique a darling among foreign investors—until last year. Now the government needs to diversify.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Female CEOs Outperform, But Glass Ceiling Remains

Management | Corporate Governance Despite various initiatives to get more women into the executive pipeline, the number of US corporations with a female CEO remains stuck in the low double digits.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Gordhan Gets His Turn To Heal South Africa’s Woes

South Africa: After burning through two Finance ministers in 18 months—with the second having held the job for less than a week—South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, moved in mid-December to restore a measure of stability to the post.

Infosys | Finacle: 10 Trends Reshaping Banking in 2020

Trend # 1 | 2020: The year the business model changed In an exceedingly commoditized market, banks are beginning to make clear bets to become leaders in scale, value, customer experience or product / service excellence. Some are turning ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

New Accounting Standard Shines Light On Leased Assets

Trends | Financial Accounting A new international accounting standard that came into effect at the beginning of 2016 is already transforming how companies around the world think about their balance sheets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Real Estate: Is The Party Over?

Peter Hayes, global head of invest-ment research for Prudential Real Estate Investors, joined Global Finance editors in New York to talk about which property markets look hot in 2016—and which look too hot.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Shrinking Lifeline For Trinidad and Tobago

The republic of Trinidad and Tobago girds for austerity as oil brings in less foreign exchange.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Taiwan’s New President To Focus On Growth, Not China

Tsai Ing-wen, leader of what was—until a couple of weeks ago—Taiwan’s opposition party, will become the island’s first female president this spring following a January 16 election in which she and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won control of both the presidency and the legislature from the incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) party.

Florida – The New Home of Fintech

Most of the nation’s leading financial firms have established large operations in Florida to take advantage of the state’s global connectivity, experienced workforce and growing market. In fact, the Sunshine State is home to more than 120 commercial banks withnearly $195 billion in assets, in addition to 18 international banks with U.S. headquarters in Florida.

Banking

US Regional Banks In Rough Ride As Rivals Loom

But big, national competitors can’t always offer the local touch and expertise that regional clients prize.