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Editor’s Letter: Out Of The Woods?
It is entirely fitting that 2009, the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species, should turn out to be a particularly Darwinian year...
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Features: Country Report-Spain
A TOUGH ROAD AHEAD Spain’s banks and savings institutions are still reeling from the collapse of the country’s housing market. By Antonio Guerrero With Spain experiencing its deepest recession in 60 years, its banking sector stands at ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features: Regional Report – Central & Eastern Europe
DOWN BUT NOT OUT Central and Eastern Europe was arguably the region hit hardest by the global downturn. It’s still suffering, but hopeful signs are clearly emerging. By Justin Keay It wasn’t meant to be like this. ...
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Features: The World’s Best Internet Banks
PIONEERS GO MOBILE In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product or service category. By Adam Rombel Much of the past year ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Newsmakers: IPO Surge Suggests Some Confidence Is Returning
GLOBAL By Laurence Neville Perking up: The US market is showing signs of revival Six months after global equity markets began a remarkable rally and a year since the global financial system almost collapsed, the IPO is back ...
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WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2008
GLOBAL Corporate JPMorgan Chase Consumer HSBC Private Credit Suisse Asset Management States Street Global Advisors Custody The Bank of New...
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BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2009
REGIONAL WINNER Standard Chartered COUNTRY WINNER Algeria Arab Banking Corporation Algeria Angola BES Angola Botswana Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Cote...
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BEST INTERNET BANKS IN LATIN AMERICA 2009
NEW YORK, July 21, 2009 Global Finance has announced the First Round winners in the World’s Best Internet Banks competition...
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BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS – 2009
NEW YORK, May 12, 2009 Global Finance magazine has released its seventh annual ranking of the Best Sub-Custodians. This exclusive...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features: The Lure Of Foreign Shares
Banks have created 1,400 new unsponsored ADR programs to meet-and hopefully generate-growing demand, particularly from investors in separately managed accounts. By Gordon Platt The long drought in initial public offerings has slowed the pace of raising capital ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance: Big Emerging Market Mergers Create World-scale Competitors
Mergers & Acquisitions BY GORDON PLATT Two of Brazil's biggest food companies, Perdigão and Sadia, plan to merge in a stock-swap transaction that will create a multinational food company with annual sales of $10.6 billion. The new company, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Egyptian Auto Group Trades In Ny And London
DR NEWS By Gordon Platt Cairo-based GB Auto, Egypt's largest listed automaker, auto assembler and distributor, issued global depositary receipts that trade in the New York and London over-the-counter markets. It issued the GDRs without a capital increase. ...