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Words Of Wisdom: Zhang Jianguo, China Construction Bank

A Time Of Profound Change By Thomas Clouse Zhang Jianguo is president and chief executive of China Construction Bank (CCB) . Global Finance: How will China´s financial system change as interest rates liberalize, capital markets develop, and ...

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Alfa Group Oligarch Leaves TNK-BP Chair

NEWSMAKERS: RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan Mikhail Fridman has overcome a lot of hurdles since his humble beginnings as a window-cleaning entrepreneur in Russia, just as the Soviet Union was unraveling. Fridman faces his most difficult maneuver yet ...

Award Winners

Awards: Supply Chain Finance 2012

BUILDING BLOCKS By Anita Hawser and Paula Green The winners of this year's awards come from a wide array of bank and nonbank backgrounds. They offer unique financing solutions and are helping buyers and suppliers connect as ...

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Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2012: Global Winners

By Anita Hawser and Paula Green BEST SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PROVIDER—BANK Citi With trade and supplier finance capabilities in more than 80 countries, few providers can match Citi's extensive geographical footprint. It provides different forms of supplier finance (receivables ...

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Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2012: Regional Winners

By Anita Hawser NORTH AMERICA Citi Citi is the leading provider of export-credit-agency–backed transactions, and in 2011 in conjunction with the US Export-Import Bank it launched its second ECA–guaranteed supply chain financing with participation of up to $1 billion ...

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Country Report: Nigeria

TIME FOR CHANGE By Antonio Guerrero Nigeria holds great promise with its massive oil reserves, but endemic corruption, unfettered militant attacks on pipelines and lack of regulatory clarity could halt progress in its tracks. When the Nigerian ...

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Country Report: Portugal

PRIME TARGET By Vanessa Drucker Portugal is being held up as a model of reform in meeting its fiscal restructuring targets, but it faces a drag on growth from financial sector deleveraging. Meanwhile, Portuguese firms have become prime ...

Banking

Cover: Will Japan Regain Its Greatness?

WILL JAPAN REGAIN ITS GREATNESS? By Michael Shari Business is trying to resurrect Asia's economic miracle a year and a half after the Tohoku tragedy. Tokyo is enjoying a long-deserved renaissance. Young professionals are converging from all ...

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Debt: Inmet Mining Funds Panama Project

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Inmet Mining, a global mining company based in Toronto, placed $1.5 billion of senior notes in the US high-yield debt market to fund a copper-mining project in Panama, in which ...

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Emerging Markets Roundup: China

CHINESE EXPORTS DEFY EXPECTATIONS By Thomas Clouse China has given its banks more freedom to determine their own interest rates by declaring in June that banks could offer lenders rates as low as 80% of the official rate ...

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Equity: Strong IPO For Malaysia’s Felda

STRONG IPO FOR MALAYSIA'S FELDA By Gordon Platt Malaysian palm-oil producer Felda Global Ventures priced its $3.1 billion initial public offering near the top of its indicative range on June 13, amid strong demand from investors, who are ...

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FX: Euro Tumbles, EU Debt Crisis Grows

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The European debt crisis remains the key focus of foreign exchange market participants, as the slowdown in the global economy increases pressure on central banks and government officials to take ...