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Global news and insight for corporate financial professionals

Author: Gordon Platt

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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Building Boom

Building Boom A much needed explosion in infrastructure spending is already under way in both developed and emerging markets. By Gordon Platt The world’s infrastructure will change dramatically in the decade ahead as a result of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Company to Watch: Anglo Platinum/South Africa

Auto Sales Revival Puts New Shine On Platinum By GP South Africa-based Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest primary producer of platinum, retrenched in 2009 after demand for the metal used in catalytic converters suffered from decreasing consumption by ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards: World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers

THE NEED FOR SPEED The foreign exchange market is growing—and operating—at lightning speed. Global Finance selects the leaders of the world's biggest financial market. By Gordon Platt The best banks in the foreign exchange market performed well ...

Banking

Newsmakers: Volcker Chides Bankers For Resisting Reforms

United States/United Kingdom By Gordon Platt Volcker: Promoting a more conservative banking model The legendary Paul Volcker, the 6-feet, 7-inches tall former chairman of the Federal Reserve who slew the inflation dragon in the early 1980s, is not ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Company to Watch: Falabella/Chile

Retailer Aims To Cash In On Latin America’s Growth By GP With its network of department stores, home-improvement centers, supermarkets and consumer banks, Falabella is one of the leading diversified retailers in Latin America. It is teaming up ...

Banking

Cover Story: Rising Oil Prices Boost Confidence

Emerging Markets Focus: Middle East The outlook for the Middle East’s economy has brightened substantially in recent months, but the reluctance of banks to lend remains worrisome. Bond issues are picking up some of the slack. By Gordon ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Come Of Age

EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS Emerging markets are leading global growth, and they are doing so by relying increasingly on domestic demand. By Gordon Platt The big question global investors and economists are asking about the sharp ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Middle East

Roundup By Gordon Platt ExxonMobil is first US company to win Iraq oil contract A joint venture of ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell has clinched a $50 billion deal to develop one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields, the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: News

Year-End Rebalancing May Aid Bond Funds By Gordon Platt Emerging market bonds could attract significant inflows from fund managers in...

News

Newsmakers: Senator Seeks To Rein In Fed’s Authority

United States By Gordon Platt Dodd: Taking direct aim at Fed’s supervisory role The chairman of the Senate banking committee, Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd, has taken dead aim at the Federal Reserve’s authority to supervise banks in what ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Corporate Finance Focus

Corporate Debt Taking Away The Punch Bowl Could End Rip-roaring Party In The Credit Markets. By Gordon Platt The fxed-income markets have produced some of the biggest returns ever this year, as central banks around the world ...
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