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WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2008

GLOBAL Corporate JPMorgan Chase Consumer HSBC Private Credit Suisse Asset Management States Street Global Advisors Custody The Bank of New...

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BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2009

REGIONAL WINNER Standard Chartered COUNTRY WINNER Algeria Arab Banking Corporation Algeria Angola BES Angola Botswana Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Cote...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story : The Party’s Over

LATIN AMERICA Once considered relatively immune to the global economic slump, Latin America is facing hard times as commodity prices crumble, trade dwindles and Venezuela’s oil-funded regional largess begins to dry up.     On a roller coaster ride: Wild ...

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BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2008

REGIONAL WINNER Standard Bank COUNTRY WINNER Angola BES Angola Botswana Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Cote dIvoire Ecobank Ethiopia NIB International...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Colombian Cement Maker Starts Level I Adr Program

DR NEWS     Cementos Argos, the fifth-largest cement producer in Latin America, began trading its shares in the US over-the-counter market in the form of American depositary receipts. The Medellín, Colombia-based company makes white and gray cement, as well ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Four-Year Fight Ends In Cafta Ratification

COSTA RICA     President Arias successfully concludes free trade agreement. Four years after it was first signed, Costa Rican lawmakers in November finally ratified Cafta, the free trade agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the United States. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Green Finance

GREEN FINANCE   Despite the drumbeat of headlines about the troubled banking and finance industries, one area is coming up green.       With global financial markets languishing in the doldrums, “green financing” is emerging as a key lever ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Colombia Gains Ground In Andean Standoff

Colombia/ecuador/venezuela     Uribe: Used the standoff to push US-Colombia trade deal After Venezuela and Ecuador sent troops to their borders with Colombia, in response to Colombia’s attack on FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebels within Ecuadorian territory on ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : Continental Shift

LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL REPORT Latin American governments’ attempts to gain more control over their countries’ economic fortunes are having far-reaching effects on international corporations doing business in the region.       Left in charge: Brazilian president Lula da Silva ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : A Changing Agenda

Latin America     There is no longer any doubt that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” is having a significant economic and political impact on Latin America. The question now is, Will it last? It’s 11 o’clock in the ...
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