Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Is The Future MINT?
DEAR READER FEBRUARY 2014 | VOL. 28 NO. 2 In 2001, Jim ONeill, then chief economist and head of asset...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging-Markets Debt Issuance Declines
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The volume of emerging-markets corporate debt offerings declined 6.2% in 2013 from a year earlier, even as global high-yield debt issuance set new records, according to Thomson Reuters. Issuers in just three ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity: Capital Market Activity Rises
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt A total of $797 billion of equity capital was issued globally in 2013, up 27% from a year earlier, while underwriting fees rose 34%, according to Thomson Reuters. The volume of initial ...
Banking
World’s Best Trade Finance Banks
Jump To See Winners ANNUAL SURVEY: TRADE FINANCE BECOMES AN ASSET CLASS Global Finance presents its annual awards for the Best Trade Finance Institutions globally, regionally, and by country. The outlook for the trade finance business in 2014 is rosy, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Brazil, India, South Africa, Most Affected By Fed Tapering
February 3, 2014 As the US Federal Reserve Board slowly moves away from the expansionary monetary policy it has pursued...
Features
Book Review: LatAm’s Recipe For Surviving Global Crises
Feb 7, 2014 – More than five years since the beginning of the global financial crisis, policymakers across the world...
Awards
World’s Best Trade Finance Banks 2014
<em style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Global Finance<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">magazine named the World’s Best Trade Finance Banks 2014.</span>
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Bonds: The Sell-Off Is On
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt A rebound in global manufacturing, as well as rising confidence in the sector, is forcing bond yields higher, with emerging markets bonds feeling the brunt of the sell-off. However, analysts do not ...
News
Cover Story: New Game, New Rules
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT By Valentina Pasquali Global foreign direct investment is undergoing a seismic shift as emerging markets countries are...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ex-Warehouse Worker Named Wal-Mart Boss
NEWSMAKERS By Valentina Pasquali US retail giant Wal-Mart is going for tradition and loyalty in selecting its new CEO and president. In an effort to strengthen its bottom line at a time when the industry is in a ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Terminal Velocity: Brazil Sells Airports
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Two international consortia won the latest round of Brazilian airport privatizations, in deals totaling $9 billion. One consortium, which includes Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and Singaporean airport operator Changi, paid $8.24 ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
The Most Unpopular Man In Bali?
NEWSMAKERS KA Badarinath World powers represented by US, EU and Japanese trade ministers openly disliked him. They held 60-year-old Indian trade minister Anand Sharma squarely responsible for holding up the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Agenda discussions at ...