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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, ...

News

Newsmakers : Economic Gloom Hits Business Confidence

UNITED STATES As the credit crisis deepens and government measures to kick-start bank lending fall short of the mark, the mood among company CEOs, particularly those with operations in Europe and Asia, is beginning to darken. These are the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : 1,000 Unsponsored Adr Programs Created In Last Three Months, Often Without Consent Of Issuers

GLOBAL EQUITY /DRS More than 1,000 unsponsored American depositary receipt programs were created in the last three months of 2008, in many cases without the permission of the companies whose shares are being traded in the US over-the-counter ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Shortage Of Dollars Supports Greenback

FOREIGN EXCHANGE A persistent shortage of dollars in global money markets is helping to bolster the greenback, even as US economic data portray an economy that is mired in recession, currency analysts say. The dollar continues to benefit ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: The price for protection

THE NEW PROTECTIONISTS As countries seek to safeguard their economies from the effects of the global downturn, they risk being accused of protectionism. The fall-out could be ugly. When US president-elect Barack Obama sailed to victory in the November ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : ‘Bric’ Countries Represent Half Of New DrIssuers

DR NEWS Companies based in Brazil, Russia, India and China, known as the BRIC countries, accounted for 53% of new depositary receipt programs and 52% of capital raised in DR form in the first 11 months ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Banking Giants Push For Growth

BRAZIL Presidents Medvedev and Lula call for the first-ever BRIC summit. Eager to maintain its status as Latin America’s largest financial institution, Banco do Brasil, Brazil’s largest state-controlled bank, announced the acquisition of Nossa Caixa, a bank ...

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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

Milestones : Ethanol Industry Faces Prospect Of Demand Slump

Brazil Not so sweet: Predicted demand for Brazil's ethanol is falling. Just a year after Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, predicted Brazil would triple its annual ethanol output to around 70 billion liters by 2020, the market ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Surge Of Bank Mergers Dominates Deal Activity

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Government-encouraged bank mergers and bailouts are keeping global M&A; activity alive amid the financial crisis, which has severely restricted financing for corporate buyouts. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo’s $15.1 billion acquisition of Wachovia, which derailed a ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story : Capitalizing on the Crisis

CAPITALIZING ON THE CRISIS RETURN OF THE IMF As crippled nations beat a path to its door, the IMF is enjoying a dramatic return from near-irrelevance. How it wields its revived power and influence will determine its long-term future. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Banks Continue Consolidation

BRAZIL Brazil’s banks continued their consolidation trend, with the most recent deal in November creating Latin America’s largest financial group. Itaú, Brazil’s second-largest non-state-owned bank, announced its acquisition of Unibanco, the country’s third-largest, in a stock transaction valued ...