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Award Winners

Best Derivatives Providers: Exchanges

WINNERS: EXCHANGES Achievement Award ICE Long before derivatives reform was on the regulatory agenda, the Intercontinental Exchange in Atlanta was well on the way to achieving what regulators hope to accomplish with new rules—an unprecedented level of transparency in ...

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Best Derivatives Providers: Latin America

WINNERS: LATIN AMERICA Best Derivatives Provider Société Générale Few other banks can claim as vast and deep a reach across the fragmented continent of Latin America—and across all classes of financial derivatives—as Société Générale. This is partly a function ...

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Best Derivatives Providers: Middle East

WINNERS: MIDDLE EAST Best Derivatives Provider HSBC HSBC has become the preferred derivatives dealer in the Middle East, which endured an even more pronounced credit crunch than other regions. The bank took clients away from Standard Chartered, the only ...

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Best Derivatives Providers: North America

WINNERS: NORTH AMERICA Best Commodity Derivatives Provider Goldman Sachs In the wake of the credit crunch in 2007 and the stock market crash of 2008, hundreds of billions of dollars poured out of stocks and bonds and into commodities, ...

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Global: World Bank’s Environment Valuation

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Dan Keeler Zoellick: Promoting fair value of ecosystems In an attempt to help countries calculate the true value of their natural assets, the World Bank has launched a project that will create an ecosystem valuation ...

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The World’s Best Derivatives Providers

ANNUAL SURVEY: A NEW STATUS QUO By Michael Shari The landscape of leading derivatives providers is being reshaped largely by a preference for low commissions and a newfound fear of having American banks as counterparties. It would ...

Award Ceremonies and Events

World’s Best Internet Bank Awards Ceremony 2010

DATE: NOVEMBER 2, 2010 LOCATION: HARVARD CLUB, NEW YORK Representatives of most of the first-round winners of Global Finance 's World's Best Internet Banks awards came together on November 2 at the Harvard Club in New York for ...

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World’s Best Internet Banks Part 2

ANNUAL SURVEY: GOING MOBILE By Adam Rombel In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best corporate/institutional and consumer Internet banks globally and in six regions, plus an overall winner. We also name global winners ...

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WORLD’S BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2011

NEW YORK, November 22, 2010 Global Finance magazine has named the “Best Foreign Exchange Banks and Providers” by country, region...

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WORLD’S BEST INTERNET BANKS 2010

Global Finance names the World’s Best Internet Banks 2010 at Awards Dinner in New York NEW YORK, November 3, 2010...

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South Africa: HSBC Climbdown Opens Way For Standard Chartered

NEWSMAKERS: SOUTH AFRICA By Nick Kochan Johannesburg: Setback after HSBC pull-out HSBC's decision to walk away from its proposed $8 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in South African bank Nedbank is little short of dramatic. Having announced ...

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Standard Bearers

SECTOR FOCUS — ISLAMIC FINANCIAL SERVICES By Anita Hawser Calls for standardized regulation of Islamic financial services are growing louder in the wake of the global financial crisis. Islamic banks emerged from the recent financial crisis with ...