Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
WORLD’S BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS 2012
Global Finance names the World’s Best Trade Finance Banks 2012 NEW YORK, December 16, 2011 Global Finance magazine ( GFmag.com...
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Award Winners
Best Derivatives Providers 2011
ANNUAL SURVEY AND AWARDS By Michael Shari Counterparty risk trumps pricing as criteria for picking derivative providers. Wall Street is retaking market share from European rivals Never underestimate the sleight of hand with which the fast-paced derivatives ...
Award Ceremonies and Events
Best Internet Banks Awards Ceremony
AWARDS CEREMONY: LOCATION NEW YORK CITY Representatives of most of the first-round winners of The World’s Best Internet Banks awards joined Global Finance on November 3 at the Harvard Club in New York City for the ninth annual Best ...
Editor's Letter
Between Aid And Contagion
Who would have predicted that the Europeans would try to get financial support from China, Portugal would try to get investment from Brazil, French banks could try for funding from Russia, or that the US administration would criticize the “lack of action” in Europe as a way to divert attention from its own problems?
Award Winners
Biggest Emerging Markets Banks 2011
CHINA’S BIG FOOTPRINT By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance presents its annual listing of the biggest banks in the emerging markets. When it comes to asset size, the dominance of Chinese banks in emerging markets is hard to ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EM News: BRIC Exchanges Announce Alliance
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Stock exchanges in the BRIC countries, plus South Africa, plan to cross-list equity index derivatives as the first phase of a joint initiative announced at the annual meeting of the World ...
Banking
EM Regional Review: Africa
AT A CROSSROADS By Jonathan Gregson Africa is at the cusp of major change. Whether that change involves greater economic growth and an improved standard of living depends on both internal and external events over the next few years. ...
Banking
EM Regional Review: Asia
WAITING GAME By Anita Hawser Asia is watching closely to see what happens to the West's buckling economies. However, intraregional trade growth and ever-increasing trade between the emerging markets will help cushion any impact. Much of the world’s ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
EM Regional Review: Introduction
FEAST AND FAMINE By Anita Hawser The emerging markets are affected to a greater or lesser degree by what is happening in the developed world. Those countries and regions that are most closely tied to the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EM Regional Review: Latin America
PREPARING FOR THE WORST By Antonio Guerrero Latin American countries are starting to build reserves and diversify economies to brace for a possible global downturn. The question is whether it will be enough to protect the export-driven ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity/DRs: Groupon Opens IPO Market
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The US market for initial public offerings sprang to life in November, following a two-month drought. The successful $700 million offering by Groupon, which was the largest IPO by ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Europes Debt Plan Missing Detail
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Risk aversion appeared to be creeping back into the markets in early November, as the initial euphoria about the eurozone’s master plan to solve the debt crisis began to fade. ...