Australia Archives

Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.

Click Here

Banking

Central Banker Report Cards 2012: Asia-Pacific

By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser ASIA-PACIFIC AUSTRALIA Glenn Stevens Grade: A Stevens has his hands full managing an economy with booming mining and financial sectors and weakness elsewhere. So far, he has managed to keep the overall ...

Banking

SIBOS: Going Mobile

ELEGANT, YET SIMPLE By Paula Green Corporates are beginning to use mobile finance solutions not only for payments but also to monitor risk and plan for contingencies. Mobile mania is just beginning to make its way into ...

Banking

The Struggle For Energy & Power In Asia

ASIA'S POWER NEXUS By Arthur Clennam I ndia relies on Indonesian coal to power its utilities, and both nations face huge increases in coal-fired power demand. But bureaucratic red tape makes it difficult for either nation to increase ...

Award Winners

Winners’ Circle: Safest/Biggest Banks

CREAM OF THE CROP By Kathryn Tully Presenting the Winners’ Circle: the longest-running leaders of Global Finance’s World’s Safest Banks and World’s Biggest Banks rankings. WORLD’S SAFEST After 2008, the global recession ensured that the risks inherent ...

Banking

World’s Best Banks 2012: Global Winners

By Gordon Platt, Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson & Antonio Guerrero Global Winners BEST CORPORATE BANK Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany, is a leading global corporate and investment bank and has long been the top foreign exchange ...

Award Winners

Awards: Project Finance & Infrastructure

CHANGING OF THE GUARD IN PROJECT FINANCE By Gordon Platt As public purse strings tighten, pension funds are the most promising source of long-term funding for infrastructure projects, according to an OECD report supported by Oliver Wyman. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: China Seeks Global Energy Assets

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, returned from his second official trip to China in February and announced that Beijing would lend two giant pandas, Er Shun and Ji Li, ...

Award Winners

Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Global Winners

By Gordon Platt FINANCIAL ADVISER: HSBC When Abu Dhabi needed a financial adviser for its latest seawater desalination and power project, Mirfa IWPP, it selected HSBC on their longstanding relationship and the bank’s reputation, without opening the contract to competitive ...

Award Winners

Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Regional Winners

By Gordon Platt NORTH AMERICA FINANCIAL ADVISER: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group MUFG led the $585 million nonrecourse financing of the Wind Energy Transmission Texas project, and structured a $387 million construction loan for the Lone Star Transmission project, a 329-mile transmission ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Risk Management: Cyber Risk

COVER UP By Paula Green Insuring against cyber risks is stoking the imaginations of insurance companies as the risks to multinationals expand. However, companies should check what policies cover them for. Cyber risks are increasingly edging their ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury & Cash Management: Annual Directory Of TCM Service Suppliers

DIRECTORY Our annual listing of TCM service and solution providers Banking Service Providers Bank of America Merrill Lynch CONTACT : Paul Simpson, Head of Global Transaction Services EMAIL : gcbkmarketing@bankofamerica.com www.corp.bankofamerica.com ING CONTACT : Willem Dokkum, ...

Award Winners

WORLD’S 50 BIGGEST BANKS 2012

Global Finance Reveals the World’s 50 Biggest Banks 2012 China Breaks Into The Top Five NEW YORK, August 27, 2012...