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Features: Best Investment Banks

The clouds parted over the investment banking business in the first quarter of this year amid some hope that a more sustainable model for success is emerging. By Gordon Platt September 21, 2008, was a date that may be ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : India’s consumers watching prices

COMPANY TO WATCH: HINDUSTAN UNILEVER/INDIA BY GP Mumbai-based Hindustan Unilever (HUL) sells soaps, tea, detergents and shampoos to more than 700 million Indian consumers, reaching two out of every three of the country’s inhabitants. As India’s largest consumer ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulars : Mergers & Acquisitions

PEPSI PUTS SOME FIZZ BACK IN M&A; MARKET Merger and acquisition activity is returning to a semblance of normality, with a series of significant deals in industries other than financial services. While financing remains constrained, stock-swap transactions and cash deals ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulars: Corporate Debt

BIG SUPPLY OF DEBT FINDS EAGER BUYERS Companies in the US and Europe are bypassing bank loans and issuing large amounts of debt, which is being readily purchased by investors seeking higher returns than are available on government securities. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulars: Foreign exchange

Good Newsforthe Global EconomyTranslates Into Bad News For Dollar Improvement in the global economic outlook spells trouble for the dollar, which is losing its allure as a safe haven amid growing concern about ballooning US government debt. BY ...

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WORLD’S BEST INVESTMENT BANKS 2010

Global Finance names the World’s Best Investment Banks 2010 New York, April 19, 2010 Global Finance announces its selection of...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestones : G-20 sets out the new world order

The G-20 meeting in London in April was groundbreaking for the scale of the resources committed to the IMF and the unity of a diverse group of nations to combat global recession. But the legacy of the G-20 will ...

News

Milestones : British Building Materials Giant To Build North American Brick Brand

NORTH AMERICA “Brick is traditionally viewed as a commodity product. We believe we can market it as a fashion product” - Richard Manning - Hanson Brick What’s in a name? The answer is everything if you’re Richard Manning.The ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Buyouts Keep Getting Bigger As Private Equity Firms Rush To Invest Billions Pouring Into New Funds

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The four-year-old boom in private equity investing reached a feverish pitch this summer as firms awash with cash hurried to put some of it to work in corporate takeovers and billions of dollars more poured ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Ice Begins Clearing Credit Default Swaps As Counterparty Risk Hits Record High

CORPORATE DEBT The first central counterparty clearinghouse for credit default swaps (CDS) began operating on March 9, the same day that perceptions of default risk among the largest derivatives market makers in the over-the-counter market rose to an ...

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Features: Annual survey best developped markets banks

WORLD’S BEST DEVELOPED MARKETS BANKS 2009 Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks in developed markets around the world. By Laurence Neville When Global Finance published its 2008 awards a year ago, the ...

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Features: The World’s Safest Banks

ANNUAL SURVEY/ SAFEST BANKS MID-YEAR UPDATE Global Finance selects the world’s safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading credit ratings agencies. Such has been the turmoil in the world’s banking industry that Global Finance is ...