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Focus On Broad Relationship, Right Price

In a conversation with Global Finance, Mark Kerns, head of investor services at Standard Bank, describes how booming interest in Africa, led by South Africa and Nigeria, is reshaping the continent’s capital markets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

IT Integration Staggering To The Finishing Line

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | M&A IT Integration Merging with other companies has its financial benefits, but when it comes to IT, not joining all the dots to integrate disparate systems can have serious consequences.

Features

NigeriaThe African Express

Country Report | Nigeria Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy, but the recent slump in oil prices has halved government revenues. The new Buhari government must now ensure the country’s economic roller coaster ride does not grind to a complete halt.

High Employee Engagement and Shareholding Rate — What Is E.SUN’s Secret?

E.SUN FHC is unique in the banking industry. With no affiliation with family nor government agency, E.SUN is a banker’s bank - a bank that is owned by employees, and managed for customers. All employees can sing the corporate anthem by heart, and almost every employee owns shares of the company. These practices might seem unconventional, but they represent the spirits of a sustainable succession system that makes E.SUN built to last.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

PDVSA Scrambles To Make Up For Lost Oil Revenue

Milestones | Venezuela Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, is being squeezed by low oil prices, and the government in Caracas is feeling the pain.

Country Report

Portugal Building On A Train Of Achievements

Country Report | Portugal Portugal’s economy is booming. Exports are up and unemployment is down. Insufficient capital investment is the last tough nut to crack, and the government is attacking it with gusto—and significant tax reform.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulators Eye Corporate Crowdfunding

Trends | Crowdfunding With traditional lenders facing stricter liquidity requirements as a result of the global financial crisis, crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly appealing source of financing for corporates.

Banking

SIBOS Supersection 2015

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Introduction Digital trade is a key theme for the corporate forum at SWIFT’s Sibos conference in Singapore in October.

Risk Measurement and Mitigation: Need for a New Beginning

Credit risk is defined as the probability that a bank borrower or counterparty will fail to meet their obligations in accordance with agreed terms. The goal of credit risk management is to maximize a bank's risk-adjusted rate of return by ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trade FinanceThinking Outside The Box

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Innovation In Trade Finance Alternative finance—in all its myriad forms—could prove the answer to the global trade finance gap.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

What To Do With All This Corporate Cash?

Corporate Cash | Corporate Asset Management Corporate treasurers, a cautious lot, are taking baby steps to add risk.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Will Japanese Companies Bow To Shareholders?

Management | Corporate Governance Japanese corporate culture, long considered one of the least shareholder-friendly among developed nations, may be softening up, with a little nudge from prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Award Winners

Winners List: World’s Best Subcustodians 2015

Global Finance presents the winners of its annual World’s Best Subcustodian awards.

Managing Liquidity in a Crisis

‘Stay at home. Stay safe’. These are perhaps the words that will characterise 2020, a year dominated by the global Covid-19 pandemic. Businesses are dealing with major disruption to their supply chains, and domestic and cross-border trade remains severely impacted by extraordinary skews in demands and government-imposed ‘stay home’ regulations in countries around the world.

Features

Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2015

Global Finance names the Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2015