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Features : Greasing The Wheels Of World Trade

ANNUAL SURVEY/ BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS Trade finance banks are providing ever-more diverse and innovative services as world trade continues to expand. On January 1, 2008, the multilateral trading system reached its 60th anniversary. Any celebrating ...

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Features : Worlds Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY/ BEST FX BANKS The 54 central banks and monetary authorities that took a measure of the foreign exchange market last year under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements discovered an unprecedented rise ...

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Features : Internet Leaders Think Strategically

WORLD'S BEST INTERNET BANKS In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best corporate/institutional and consumer Internet banks globally and in six regions. The best banks on the Internet have long treated ...

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Features : Worlds Best Derivatives Providers 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS The fourth annual Global Finance awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers comes at a time when derivatives are in the mainstream news as never before. The US subprime mortgage crisis has ...

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Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Individually, many of the world’s leading central bankers seemed to be in disarray after the subprime debacle began to unfold in mid-2007. As a group, though, they acted with remarkably unity. The central ...

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Features : Global Finance Ranks The Worlds 50 Biggest Banks, As Measured By Total Assets

ANNUAL SURVEY/ WORLD’S BIGGEST BANKS It is just two years since we last listed the world’s biggest banks, and in that time the assets of the top 10 have jumped from what was then an eye-popping $12 trillion to ...

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Features : The Worlds Safest Banks 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY/ WORLD’S SAFEST BANKS Global Finance selects the world’s safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading international credit ratings agencies. Images of customers queuing to withdraw their savings from Britain’s Northern Rock ...

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Features : Worlds Best Banks

ANNUAL SURVEY / WORLD’S BEST BANKS At a time when the world economic outlook is more uncertain than it has been in years, the banking industry finds itself at the vortex of a financial market storm that originated in subprime ...

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Features : Growth Explosion

INTERNET BANKING Over the past two decades, Internet banking has gone from non-existent to ubiquitous. As this year’s Global Finance Internet Banks Awards show, many of the pioneers are still dominant forces, driving the market forward. Banks have ...

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Features : An Industry In Flux

Hotels, airlines & airports Tightened budgets and new technology have triggered a wave of innovation in the business travel industry. Take-off: Business-only airlines such as Silverjet are hoping to change the face of corporate travel The business ...

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Features : The World’s Best Sub-Custodians

ANNUAL SURVEY Global Finance honors the often-hidden providers of the specialized services that make cross-border investing possible. As institutional investors increasingly venture into foreign markets to obtain diversification and higher returns, they rely on global custodians for a wide range ...

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Features : Best Investment Banks 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / INVESTMENT BANKS The continuing frenzy of global M&A; and debt and equity issuance shows no sign of abating—and investment banks are reaping the benefits. Records fell across the board in 2006 for worldwide debt ...