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World’s Best Banks 2015
Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks globally, regionally and by country. The winners have provided the best service to clients.
Author: Michael Shari
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
BEST BANKS 2015 – WINNERS PROFILE
Profiling this years winners of the World's Best Banks across all regions.
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WORLDS BEST INVESTMENT BANKS 2015
Global Finance presents the winners of its 16th annual Best Investment Bank Awards.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
TUG OF WAR
Global Finance sat down with Arvind Rajan, International Chief Investment Officer at Prudential Fixed Income, to discuss the impact of low oil prices on the ability of emerging markets to service their debt.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
NEW LIFE IN EQUITY DERIVATIVES
Market Report | Equity Derivatives
With volatility rising from historic lows on the equity derivatives market, investment banks are finding renewed interest from clients among nonfinancial corporations.
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EMERGING MARKETS DEMAND: ANTTI RANTA, NORDEA
Antti Ranta, head of FX at Nordea in Helsinki, sees demand growing for emerging markets currencies in Nordic countries—and for advice on how to trade them.
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INTRA-ASIAN FLOWS: EDDIE LISTORTI, ANZ
Eddie Listorti, co-global head of fixed income, currencies and commodities at ANZ Group in Singapore, sees intra-Asian currency flows as a lucrative opportunity.
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NEW PRODUCT PROLIFERATION: PHILIP NEL, STANDARD BANK
Philip Nel, head of FX trading for Africa at Standard Bank in Johannesburg, anticipates a proliferation of new foreign exchange products in countries across the continent.
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RUSSIAN OPPORTUNITY: MIKHAIL PALEI, VTB CAPITAL
Mikhail Palei, head of foreign exchange flow at VTB Capital in Moscow, expects international banks to lose their appetite for risk in the Russian ruble—which he sees as an opportunity for Russia’s FX desks.
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THE WORLD’S BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2015
Regulatory uncertainty, technological change and traders behaving badly have collided in a perfect storm for banks’ foreign exchange operations
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
VANGUARD PUSHES FOR MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS’ RIGHTS
<strong>Activist Investing | Trends</strong><br />
Vanguard CEO William McNabb is making it plain that he wants the many public companies in which the world’s second-largest fund management firm owns significant minority stakes to take Vanguard as seriously as they take activist investors.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
WILL KURODA SURVIVE JAPAN’S SNAP ELECTION?
<strong>Japan | Newsmakers</strong><br />
Just weeks after Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, surprised the world with a bold plan to inflate Japanese assets and weaken the Japanese yen by buying 80 trillion yen ($680 billion) in Japanese bonds, exchange-traded funds and real estate investment trusts, prime minister Shinz Abe upstaged him by calling a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule.