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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: China Removes IPO Ban As Market Soars

Global Equity/DRs By Gordon Platt China opened the floodgates to new share offerings in June, releasing a torrent of initial public offerings to help soak up excess liquidityand cool an overheating stock market. The removal of the government’s ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Dollar Secure In Its Role As World’s Key Reserve Currency, Analysts Say

Foreign Exchange By Gordon Platt Calls for a super-sovereign reserve currency to replace the dollar are going nowhere fast. The Teflon dollar is brushing off everything thrown at it by the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Worldwide M&a Activity Continues To Slide

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The statistics on global dealmaking activity show no signs of improvement, despite some recent easing of the credit crisis and widespread opportunities for investment in distressed sectors. The value of worldwide mergers ...

News

Editor’s Letter: Out Of The Woods?

It is entirely fitting that 2009, the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species, should turn out to be a particularly Darwinian year...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Rise In Copper Prices Puts Shine On Chinese Producer

Company To Watch: Jiangxi Copper/China Rise in Copper Prices Puts Shine on Chinese Producer Jiangxi Copper, based in Guixi City in China’s inland Jiangxi Province, is the country’s largest producer of the red metal. It owns all five ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: A Region in Transition

Economic Update Central Asia The former Soviet republics of Central Asia are undergoing dramatic and sometimes painful change as they attempt to modernize their economies and to exploit their vast reserves of natural resources. By Paula L. Green ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Funding A Cleaner World

Businesses, banks and governments are working together to create financing tools to fund the green revolution. By Paula L. Green Cajoled, prodded and pushed by presidents, regulators, legislators and international diplomats, multinationals are slowly realizing the time has ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: Regional Report – Central & Eastern Europe

DOWN BUT NOT OUT Central and Eastern Europe was arguably the region hit hardest by the global downturn. It’s still suffering, but hopeful signs are clearly emerging. By Justin Keay It wasn’t meant to be like this. ...

Award Winners

Features: The World’s Best Internet Banks

PIONEERS GO MOBILE In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product or service category. By Adam Rombel Much of the past year ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: IPO Surge Suggests Some Confidence Is Returning

GLOBAL By Laurence Neville Perking up: The US market is showing signs of revival Six months after global equity markets began a remarkable rally and a year since the global financial system almost collapsed, the IPO is back ...

News

Newsmakers: Us Takes Aim At Trade Gap To Boost Employment

UNITED STATES/CHINA By Gordon Platt Kirk: Facing key decision on trade barriers US Trade Representative Ron Kirk hailed the World Trade Organization’s dispute panel’s ruling in August against China’s system of importing and distributing books, magazines, films, DVDs, ...

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THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BANKS 2008

Rank Name Country Fiscal Year Total Assets ($b) 1 Royal Bank of Scotland Group United Kingdom 12/2007 3,807 2 Deutsche...