Award Winners
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
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
TRADE CREDIT INSURANCE: DECIPHERING A GOOD RISK
<strong>Global Salon</strong><br />
<strong>Global Finance</strong> sat down with Jochen Dümler, president and chief executive officer of insurer Euler Hermes North America, to look at the global market for trade credit insurance.
Banking
TRANSACTION BANKING 2015: DISMANTLING SILOS
<strong>Special Report| Global Transaction Banking 2015 Preview</strong><br />
Last year brought a vastly altered landscape for transaction banking—and the same is likely to be true of 2015. Regulatory reform and new developments in data analytics and mobile banking will drive change.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE: CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Treasurers from leading F500 companies and executives from top banks gathered at the Harvard Club in New York to discuss how treasurers are leveraging new market developments to improve treasury 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.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
‘GOOGLE TAX’ ON MULTINATIONALS HEATS UP GLOBAL CORPORATE TAX DEBATE
<strong>UK Corporate Tax | Trends</strong><br />
Britain likely will succeed in taxing multinational companies at a 25% rate on their UK operations beginning in April, without violating international tax treaties, analysts say, but tensions are rising between countries on suspicions that MNCs are engaging in global tax evasion.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ABRAAJ GROUP: INVESTING IN CITIES
<strong>Global Finance</strong> sat down with Tom Speechley, a partner in emerging markets private equity investment firm Abraaj Group and CEO of Abraaj North America, to discuss key markets for investment, future EM stars and the lure of cities as investment destinations.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ARGENTINA’S TAX DEPARTMENT STRIPS PROCTER & GAMBLE LICENSE
<strong>Corporate Tax | Management</strong><br />
Approximately 500 American companies operate in Argentina—but on November 3 that number abruptly decreased by one as the country’s tax authority, the Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP) revoked the company’s registration, accusing P&G of tax and accounting fraud.
Award Winners
BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS 2014
The market in over-the-counter derivatives is shrinking, while exchange-listed futures and interest rate swaps traded on new swap execution facilities (SEFs) are setting records. New regulations and capital requirements are squeezing bank trading desks and forcing more derivatives trading onto exchanges and centralized clearing.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CHANGING ECONOMIC CLIMATE OF EMERGING MARKETS
<strong>Seeking A New Paradigm | Emerging Markets Growth</strong><br />
To ascertain whether emerging markets is an obsolete term, we must first understand what it means.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CHINA EASES INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS
<strong>China | Milestones</strong><br />
China will allow foreign firms to increase their ownership stakes in encouraged sectors and enter into previously protected industries, according to investment guidelines drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Banking
Deepening Africa’s Financial Markets
<strong>Africa | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br />
African economies are well on their way to transforming the region’s status from a frontier to an emerging market. The IMF predicts Africa will grow by 5.8% in 2015, up from 5.1% this year, with Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique projected to growth over 8%.