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BEST INVESTMENT BANKS – 2008
New York, July 7, 2008 Global Finance announces its selection of the Worlds Best Investment Banks 2008 to be published...
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BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS – 2008
Global Finance magazine has released its sixth annual ranking of the Best Sub-Custodians. This exclusive survey will be published in...
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BEST TRADE FINANCE PROVIDERS – 2008
CATEGORY SUB-CATEGORY WINNER REGIONAL WINNER Americas Citi Europe BNP Paribas CEE UniCredit Nordic Region SEB Middle East Arab Bank Asia...
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MID YEAR SAFEST BANKS RANKINGS – 2009
RANKING BANK COUNTRY 1 KfW Germany 2 Caisse des Dpots et Consignations (CDC) France 3 Bank Nederlands Gemeenten (BNG) Netherlands...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan Gives Dollar Strong Start To 2009 On Hopes Us Will Recover First
FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar rose in early January, as investors weighed the likely effects of president-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan and as analysts said the United States could be the first major economy to recover from the ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Features: Carbon trade up
MARKET REPORT CARBON TRADING Barack Obama’s support for carbon trading will help strengthen an already growing market. Schleimer: The Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases Bolstered by Europe’s legislative advances to tackle climate ...
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Features: World’s best trade finance banks 2009
ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS Trade finance banks are enjoying rising demand for basic risk management services as world trade faces a difficult period. Global trade is expected to decline in 2009 for the first time since 1982, ...
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Features : World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2009
BEST FX PROVIDERS Global Finance selects the leaders in the world’s biggest financial market. The foreign exchange market has continued to thrive throughout the global financial crisis, providing some welcome profits for beleaguered financial institutions. Average daily turnover has ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Milestones : Blizzard Of Rate Cuts Topples Records
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS Bernanke: Has slashed Fed rate to record lows. Central banks around the world dug deeply into their ammunition dumps and unleashed a volley of outsized rate cuts in December, hoping to keep their economies from ...
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Emerging Markets : Crisis Starts To Bite Harder
AFRICA Manuel: Rand's slide will help the country balance its books. Johannesburg-based AngloGold Ashanti, Africa’s largest gold producer, hopes to refinance a $1 billion convertible bond before Christmas, despite current market conditions that have all but closed the ...
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Corporate Finance : Credit Crunch And A Slowing Economy Crimp Worldwide Buyout Activity, Putting Strategic Buyers In Control
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Worldwide announced mergers and acquisitions in the first three quarters of 2008 declined by 25% from the same period a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters, reflecting the effects of the credit crunch ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Global Ipo Activity Falters, With Fewer, But Larger, Issues Focused On Emerging Markets
GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Strange as it may seem, there have been bigger initial public offerings since the credit crunch hit, but fewer of them. Global IPO activity reached an all-time high of $287 billion in proceeds in 2007 but ...