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Features : Opportunity Play
SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS Sovereign wealth funds snap up bargains in one of the biggest financial industry land grabs in history. Bader Al Sa'ad, head of Kuwait's SWF, helped arrange a huge cash infusion for Citi. To say Citi and ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story: Asia’s big year
Asia’s most dynamic economies are amassing huge cash fortunes that they can then wield to increase their power around the world. Will 2008 be the year when we t ruly see the balance of global power shift to the ...
Banking
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 ...
Banking
TCM Guide 2007 : Sepa: Reaching Beyond European Borders
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: CITI Naveed Sultan is Managing Director, Head of Global Transaction Services in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) The birth of a new currency used by more than 300 million consumers is a remarkable event. Since ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
TCM Guide 2007 : Who’s Who
“WHO’S WHO” IN TREASURY AND CASH MANAGEMENT TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT 2007 Anne Boden Head, Transaction Banking, Europe ABN AMRO Anne Boden manages ABN AMRO Transaction Banking across Europe. She is also responsible for preparing it for future ...