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The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
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China
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Looking ahead: shifting sands
Shifting Sands Global Finance takes a long, hard look at the prospects for the coming decade. By Dan Keeler The first decade of the 21st century began with the spectacular and painful collapse of the dot-com bubble ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The Dollars decline
The Dollar’s Decline A weak dollar may be beneficial to the US in the short term, but it is undermining the dollar’s long-term status as the de facto global currency. By Laurence Neville One of the rocks ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
The new world powers
THE NEW WORLD POWERS The coming decade will witness a fundamental rebalancing of economic power, setting the stage for this to become the Asian Century. By Harold L. Sirkin It is clear to almost everyone that ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance: Mergers & Acquisitions
Taiwan Emerges As Tech M&A; Hot Spot By Gordon Platt In the biggest merger ever in Taiwan, liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor maker Innolux Display agreed in November to acquire Chi Mei Optoelectronics, which makes LCD panels for ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story: Building Boom
Building Boom A much needed explosion in infrastructure spending is already under way in both developed and emerging markets. By Gordon Platt The world’s infrastructure will change dramatically in the decade ahead as a result of ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Company to Watch: Anglo Platinum/South Africa
Auto Sales Revival Puts New Shine On Platinum By GP South Africa-based Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest primary producer of platinum, retrenched in 2009 after demand for the metal used in catalytic converters suffered from decreasing consumption by ...
Award Winners
Features: Awards: World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers
THE NEED FOR SPEED The foreign exchange market is growing—and operating—at lightning speed. Global Finance selects the leaders of the world's biggest financial market. By Gordon Platt The best banks in the foreign exchange market performed well ...
Banking
Newsmakers: Copenhagen Conference Reveals Deep Rifts Over Climate Change
Europe/Global By Anita Hawser Trouble ahead: Delegates failed to secure a binding treaty in Copenhagen In mid-December political leaders, environmental scientists, NGOs and lobbyists converged on Copenhagen to try to hammer out a global agreement on climate change. ...
News
Newsmakers: Europe Lags Behind In IPO Market Recovery
Europe By Laurence Neville Drying up? Investors may shun European IPOs After months of increasing excitement among equity capital market (ECM) bankers about the prospects of a bumper first quarter of IPO issuance in Europe in 2010, events ...
Banking
Cover Story: Global Finance EM 200
THE BIGGEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS Global Finance unveils its second annual league table of the biggest emerging market banks ranked by total assets. By Dan Keeler As the world’s key emerging markets continue to drive the ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story: Africa Leads The Way To A New Era
EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS: AFRICA Africa’s economic development will be fueled more by its relationships with other emerging markets than with historical partners in the West. By Anita Hawser For hundreds of years Africa has represented a ...