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Features : World’s Best Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY / WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2008 Now more than ever, the world’s best banks deserve recognition for continuing to provide excellent products and high levels of service to their clients, despite the distractions of the global credit ...

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Newsmakers : Global Leaders Paint Bleak Picture

AUSTRIA Citi's Rhodes: Current crisis is the US' biggest challenge in recent history. With Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch and Lehman’s filing for bankruptcy, the global credit crunch is clearly far from over. In fact, a ...

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Emerging Markets : Banks Seek Growth After Profits Slide

BRAZIL Digging in: Brazilian miner Vale is investing heavily. After several years of steady profit growth, Brazil’s banking sector reported a slowdown in second-quarter 2008. Bradesco, Brazil’s largest non-state bank by assets, posted a 13% drop in second-quarter ...

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Features : A Safe Haven

SPOTLIGHT / GLOBAL CUSTODY Global custodians are experiencing strong growth and increasingly complex demands from their clients. Propelled by the growth in increasingly sophisticated financial instruments and the emergence of new markets and clients, the universe of financial assets ...

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Features : Internet Bank Awards

In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product or service category. Times have been hard recently for banks’ information technology departments. The collapse of ...

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Features : Island Life

CARIBBEAN FINANCE CENTERS Recent changes are helping the venerable finance centers of the Caribbean stave off increasingly intense international competition. Partly in response to the US-led assault on their opaque banking systems and propensity ...

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Features : World’s Best Investment Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY The past 12 months have been some of the most difficult ever for investment banks, but many institutions continue to provide outstanding services to their clients. Investment banks are still writing ...

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Milestones : Financiers Expect More Banks To Fail

GLOBAL Almost a year into the credit crunch, it appears that there are still widespread market fears of another financial firm going under. And it seems that the next six months are crucial in terms of ...

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Features : Greasing The Wheels Of Global Trade

GREASING THE WHEELS OF GLOBAL TRADE ANNUAL SURVEY / SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE Global Finance pinpoints the leaders in the increasingly innovative, creative and commercially important field of supply chain finance. The physical transportation of goods between buyers and suppliers ...

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Features : World’s Best Banks 2008

Newsmakers : Global Leaders Paint Bleak Picture

Emerging Markets : Banks Seek Growth After Profits Slide

Features : A Safe Haven

Features : Internet Bank Awards

Features : Island Life

Features : World’s Best Investment Banks 2008

Milestones : Financiers Expect More Banks To Fail

Features : Greasing The Wheels Of Global Trade

GCC Report : Inflation Stalks The Gulf

GCC Report: Move To Launching Pad

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