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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 ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Russia’s Electricity Spin-Offs Create 11 New Dr Programs
DR NEWS Eleven new companies, spun off from Russia’s former electricity monopoly, selected The Bank of New York Mellon as the depositary for their Regulation S and Rule 144A global depositary receipt programs. The bank is ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Power Play
ANALYSIS / RUSSIA’S GEORGIA GAMBIT Russia’s recent assault on Georgia raises some scary prospects for European nations dependent on energy supplies from West Asia. Double act: Vladimir Putin passed the presidency to Dmitry Medvedev but still retains much ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story: Green Finance
GREEN FINANCE Despite the drumbeat of headlines about the troubled banking and finance industries, one area is coming up green. With global financial markets languishing in the doldrums, “green financing” is emerging as a key lever ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Delayed Reaction
REGIONAL REPORT / CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE They dodged the early fallout from the credit crunch, but Central and Eastern Europe’s economies are facing growing challenges. All change: Central and Eastern Europes economies are in transition. Next year Europe’s ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : Russia Gambit Sends Clear Message To West
GEORGIA Few in the oil industry doubt that the Russia-Georgia conflict is as much about tightening the squeeze on oil and gas supply to the West as it is about protecting minorities in South Ossetia and ...
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Features : Annual Survey: Stars Of The New Russia
ANNUAL REPORT / STARS OF THE NEW RUSSIA Making the most of their newfound spending power, Russia’s consumers are boosting the fortunes of the country’s banks and corporations. With Russia’s economy fueled by petrodollars, Russian consumers are on ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features: Credit crunch? What credit crunch?
CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE Despite continuing political upheaval, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are more concerned about reining in their buoyant economies than surviving the global economic downturn. Although the politics in Warsaw may be "noisy," ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : European Energy Deals Keeping Investment Bankers Busy Despite Slump In Leveraged Buyouts
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Energy companies are fueling a merger boom in Europe, as the industry continues to restructure in response to liberalized markets and foreign competition. Investment bankers are welcoming the advisory fees from these huge deals at ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : End Of An Era As Yeltsin Dies
RUSSIA Boris Yeltsin: Russias first freely elected president The death of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin in April marked the end of an era for Russia. Retrospectives in the Russian press of the country’s first freely elected president ...