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SIBOS 2013 Emerging Markets Payments To Grow Dramatically, Corporates Want On-Time and Cheap Payment Delivery
First and foremost, the report expresses doubts that deadline for the migration to Sepa in the eurozone will be met...
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Awards: Best Internet Banks—Round 1
ANNUAL SURVEY — THE PIONEERS By Adam Rombel In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the top online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product or service category. Global Finance is ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Brazil: Dream Sours For Eike Batista
NEWSMAKERS By Grace Yuan A year ago, Eike Batista was one of the richest men in the world. Edging in at number seven on Forbes’ World Billionaires list and renowned for his flamboyant lifestyle, Batista was at the ...
News
Brazil: Odebrecht Grows Infrastructure
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Odebrecht Offshore Drilling Finance, a division of one of Brazils largest privately-held industrial and...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
China: Policymakers Push Reforms
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Thomas Clouse China’s economy decelerated in the second quarter, with GDP growth dropping to 7.5% year-on-year, compared with 7.7% in the first quarter. The government responded with some stimulus measures, including a tax reduction ...
Banking
Cover: The Global War On Tax Havens
AT HAVENS END? Multinational corporations could have a much more difficult time shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictionsand deductions to high-tax...
News
Detroit: Orr’s Creative City Finances
NEWSMAKERS Valentina Pasquali Unable to repay debts of close to $20 billion, the city of Detroit, Michigan, recently filed for...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EC: Pushing For New Fraud Regulator
MILESTONES By Valentina Pasquali With an estimated €500 million ($660 million) of the European Union budget lost to fraud every year, the European Commission is now pushing for the creation of a new European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) ...
News
Frontier Markets Report: Côte d’Ivoire
RETURN TO GLORY? <br />
Côte d’Ivoire has the opportunity to regain its status as a leading African economy. Blessed with a wealth of natural resources, a pleasant climate, a strategicallocationand a level of infrastructure unrivaled in West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire was long recognized as one of the continent postcolonial stars.
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India: Now Third-Largest Global Economy
MILESTONES By Erik Heinrich India has passed Japan as the world’s third-largest economy, according to a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The same report lowered the OECD’s estimate for India’s growth ...
News
Japan: Vote Of Confidence For Abenomics
NEWSMAKERS By Thomas Clouse Stability may have finally returned to Japanese politics, now that the coalition led by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has won a majority of seats in the upper ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Polls & Stats: Ease Of Paying Corporate Taxes Around The World
From GFMag.com Economic Database UAE Tops The List Of Simplest Corporate Tax Regimes In addition to rates (see cover story...