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WORLD’S 50 SAFEST BANKS 2012

GLOBAL FINANCE names theWorld’s 50 Safest Banks 2012 NEW YORK, August 16, 2012 Bank stability remains a pressing concern for...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Derivatives

TOOLS FOR MANAGING RISK, OR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?   By Gordon Platt   As companies looked to hedge their risks, a new asset class, derivatives, was born in the 1980s.   But over the years a number of substantial losses ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Equity & Debt Capital Markets

STORMY WEATHER By Gordon Platt   When volume 1, number 1 of Global Finance arrived at the airport in London on October 15, 1987, it could not immediately be offloaded.   The precious cargo was needed as ballast in the airplane ...

Banking

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Macroeconomics

THE HUMAN FACTOR IN ECONOMIC THEORY   By Justin Keay   Traditional economic theory has been challenged by recent market events in global financial markets, and that challenge has given rise to a new generation of economic soothsayers who are looking ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Mergers & Acquisitions

TRADING SIZE FOR VALUE   By Gordon Platt   Some of the biggest mergers in recent history—AOL and Time Warner, Vodafone and Mannesmann—show that such marriages aren't always made in heaven.   Dealmakers are now staring down a much smaller deal ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Top 25 Lists: 25 Events That Rocked The World

REVOLUTION   By Laurence Neville   The scale of the crisis that has engulfed much of the world since 2008, which—like a virus—has mutated from a financial sector crisis to an economic crisis to a sovereign debt crisis, is so great ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Words Of Wisdom: Herbert Stepic, Raiffeisen Bank International

THE BIG PICTURE   By Anita Hawser   Herbert Stepic is the chief executive officer of one of the largest banking organizations in Central & Eastern Europe, Raiffeisen Bank International.   Global Finance : What are the key events over the ...

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Awards: World’s Best Subcustodians 2012

NEW HORIZONS By Gordon Platt With every new regulation that hits global trust and custody banks, a new service is born for subcustodians. Keeping up is expensive and challenging, but nonetheless it is a good time to be ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2012: Regional Winners

By Anita Hawser NORTH AMERICA Citi Citi is the leading provider of export-credit-agency–backed transactions, and in 2011 in conjunction with the US Export-Import Bank it launched its second ECA–guaranteed supply chain financing with participation of up to $1 billion ...
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