Paula L. Green, Author at Global Finance Magazine

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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

How Safe Is Your Safety Net?

INSURANCE FOCUS The fallout from the financial crisis is prompting risk managers to take a cold, hard look at their insurance providers. Many do not like what they see. By Paula L. Green Don’t let that ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Spotlight: Business Continuity

Preparing For The Worst Multinationals are reassessing their business continuity plans as the global economic turmoil continues. By Paula L. Green In an increasingly intertwined business world with far-flung supply chains stretching across myriad time zones and ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: A Region in Transition

Economic Update Central Asia The former Soviet republics of Central Asia are undergoing dramatic and sometimes painful change as they attempt to modernize their economies and to exploit their vast reserves of natural resources. By Paula L. Green ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Funding A Cleaner World

Businesses, banks and governments are working together to create financing tools to fund the green revolution. By Paula L. Green Cajoled, prodded and pushed by presidents, regulators, legislators and international diplomats, multinationals are slowly realizing the time has ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers : Risk management remains undervalued

Risk management is still not considered a core strategic function at some of the world’s biggest investment houses, according to a survey by research group SimCorp StrategyLab. Despite all the talk given to the importance of risk management ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story : Africa in Squeeze

AFRICA IN A SQUEEZE By Paula Green Africa faces an uncertain future as its key economies suffer multiple setbacks and the global slump threatens to constrict the flow of investment. By Paula L. Green Being ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Risky Business

FOCUS ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT Risk managers are heading back to the drawing board after finding their systems were incapable of flagging up the perils that have brought the financial and corporate worlds to their knees. First developed more ...

News

Newsmakers : Obama Targets Climate Change

UNITED STATES Hardhitting team appointed to curb US carbon emissions With a new line-up of officials steering Washington’s environmental and energy policies for the next four years and global talks under way to iron out a successor pact ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features: Carbon trade up

MARKET REPORT CARBON TRADING Barack Obama’s support for carbon trading will help strengthen an already growing market. Schleimer: The Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases Bolstered by Europe’s legislative advances to tackle climate ...

Sustainable Finance

Milestones : Business Schools Promote Responsibility

UNITED STATES Greening finance: Social and environmental ethics will form part of business curriculums. A burgeoning global movement to reshape corporate behavior by weaving corporate social responsibility principles into business school teaching got a boost last month. At ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Risky Business

FOCUS / ECONOMIC NATIONALISM As if the global credit squeeze were not enough, multinationals, particularly in the commodities industries, are also facing a surge in resource nationalism. Horne: Companies are investing in riskier areas. Fueled in part by soaring ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestones : Global Accounting Standard Moves Closer

UNITED STATES Accounting by numbers: Proponents of global standards say they reduce costs. More than 100 of the largest US public companies could be using international accounting standards by the end of next year ...