Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SIBOS 2012 – Corporates Pay Too Much For Cross-Currency Payments
The cost of cross-currency payments is more than it need be, contends Rocky Motwani, MD at J. P. Morgan. He...
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The Winners’ Circle: Central Banker Report Cards
THE A-GRADERS By Kathryn Tully Presenting the Winners’ Circle: A ranking of all the central bank governors who have received “A” grades over the history of Global Finance ’s Central Banker Report Cards—released as part of our 25 ...
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Awards: World’s Safest Banks 2012
ANNUAL SURVEY: DOWN, BUT NOT OUT By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance presents it annual ranking of The World’s Safest Banks. European banks still account for 20 of the World’s Safest 50 Banks, but Europe’s hold on the ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...