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Features : Worlds Best Derivatives Providers 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS The fourth annual Global Finance awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers comes at a time when derivatives are in the mainstream news as never before. The US subprime mortgage crisis has ...

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Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Individually, many of the world’s leading central bankers seemed to be in disarray after the subprime debacle began to unfold in mid-2007. As a group, though, they acted with remarkably unity. The central ...

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Features : Global Finance Ranks The Worlds 50 Biggest Banks, As Measured By Total Assets

ANNUAL SURVEY/ WORLD’S BIGGEST BANKS It is just two years since we last listed the world’s biggest banks, and in that time the assets of the top 10 have jumped from what was then an eye-popping $12 trillion to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : In For The Long Haul

ANALYSIS / INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING Many Asian countries desperately need to upgrade their infrastructure while cash-rich private equity funds are scouring the region for long-term investments. Is this a match made in heaven? Nag: We can only meet a small ...

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Features : The Worlds Safest Banks 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY/ WORLD’S SAFEST BANKS Global Finance selects the world’s safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading international credit ratings agencies. Images of customers queuing to withdraw their savings from Britain’s Northern Rock ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dollar Hits The Skids As Us Rate Cut Looms

Foreign exchange / corporate financing news The dollar fell to a 15-year low against a basket of currencies in early August as the level of the federal funds futures contract forecast a cut in US interest rates before ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Records Fall As Indian Business Thrives

India On track: Delhis new subway trains. The metro railway authority in New Delhi placed a record order for 340 subway coaches with Bombardier Transportation, Montreal-based Bombardier’s Indian subsidiary. Worth $590 million, the order is the largest ever ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide 2007 : Identity Solution

CORPORATE ID MANAGEMENT As corporate treasury systems become increasingly automated, businesses and their banking partners are devising innovative techniques to ensure only authorized personnel can make payments. Wendel: In approximately 25% of cases, account signatories are wrong. Hans-Maarten van ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Meat Processors Bulk Up With Foreign Acquisitions

Brazil Beefing up: Brazilian meat producer JBS is set to buy the US's Swift Following a spate of local IPOs by Brazil's main meat processing companies, sector players are now engaged in an acquisitions spree to expand their ...

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Features : An Industry In Flux

Hotels, airlines & airports Tightened budgets and new technology have triggered a wave of innovation in the business travel industry. Take-off: Business-only airlines such as Silverjet are hoping to change the face of corporate travel The business ...

Banking

Features : Change Agents

CUSTODY & INVESTORS’ SERVICES Over the past three decades, the global custody and investors’ services industry has facilitated some of the most dramatic and far-reaching changes in the global financial services landscape. More than 30 years ago Chase Manhattan bank ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Singapore Exchange Racks Up Global Listings

DR NEWS Uttam Galva Steels, based in Khopoli in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, has become the first Indian...