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Cover Story : Universal Currency Could Hold Key To Stability And Growth

SINGLE GLOBAL CURRENCY The success of the euro has fueled interest in a plan for global monetary union that could end currency crises and boost world trade. For decades there has been a groundswell ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Putin Continues Political Maneuvering

RUSSIA Strife on the borders: Georgia’s president called for early elections and accused Russia of stirring up unrest. Afew weeks after Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he would lead the ticket for the country’s dominant political party, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : European Energy Deals Keeping Investment Bankers Busy Despite Slump In Leveraged Buyouts

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Energy companies are fueling a merger boom in Europe, as the industry continues to restructure in response to liberalized markets and foreign competition. Investment bankers are welcoming the advisory fees from these huge deals at ...

Award Winners

Features : Worlds Best Derivatives Providers 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS The fourth annual Global Finance awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers comes at a time when derivatives are in the mainstream news as never before. The US subprime mortgage crisis has ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Deals Still Getting Done, But They Are Smaller

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The global credit crunch appears to be having a major impact on the size and financing of takeovers, where cash deals for much smaller targets are increasingly the rule. The biggest announced M&A; transaction worldwide in August ...

Award Winners

Features : The Worlds Safest Banks 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY/ WORLD’S SAFEST BANKS Global Finance selects the world’s safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading international credit ratings agencies. Images of customers queuing to withdraw their savings from Britain’s Northern Rock ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : Waiting In The Wings

EU ACCESSION HOPEFULS Preparing their economies for entry to the European Union is yielding dramatic results for accession candidates and providing inspiration for those that aspire to follow them. Kiev: Banking market set for sharp growth. While EU accession ...

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France

Cover Story : Universal Currency Could Hold Key To Stability And Growth

Emerging Markets : Putin Continues Political Maneuvering

Corporate Finance : European Energy Deals Keeping Investment Bankers Busy Despite Slump In Leveraged Buyouts

Features : Worlds Best Derivatives Providers 2007

Corporate Finance : Deals Still Getting Done, But They Are Smaller

Features : The Worlds Safest Banks 2007

Cover Story : Waiting In The Wings

TCM Guide 2007 : Sepa: Reaching Beyond European Borders

TCM Guide 2007 : Who’s Who

Cover Story : A Changing Agenda

Newsmakers : Airbus Gets A Lift As New Orders Pour In

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