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BEST INVESTMENT BANKS – 2009
The clouds parted over the investment banking business in the first quarter of this year amid some hope that a...
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Cover Story: All Change
Recent financial turmoil has accelerated the seismic shifts taking place in the balance of global economic and political power. How the major powers act in the coming years will determine the future shape of globalization. BY LAURENCE NEVILLE The global ...
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Features: Best Investment Banks
The clouds parted over the investment banking business in the first quarter of this year amid some hope that a more sustainable model for success is emerging. By Gordon Platt September 21, 2008, was a date that may be ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features: Cash Is King Again
The credit crunch made life more difficult for corporate treasurers in many waysnot least in managing their relationships with their...
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WORLD’S BEST INVESTMENT BANKS 2010
Global Finance names the World’s Best Investment Banks 2010 New York, April 19, 2010 Global Finance announces its selection of...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Milestones : Countries count cost of credit crisis
It’s not just companies that are caught in the fallout from the credit crunch; countries are suffering, too. In the latest assessment from risk analysis firm Coface, 47 countries—including the US, the UK, Japan and Germany—have seen their financial-strength rating ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Global equities/DRs
UNSPONSORED ADRS ATTRACT INVESTORS, BOOSTING VOLUME IN OTC SECURITIES Of the more than 1,000 unsponsored American depositary receipt programs created in the wake of last October’s rule change by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, a handful are attracting significant ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Milestones : G-20 sets out the new world order
The G-20 meeting in London in April was groundbreaking for the scale of the resources committed to the IMF and the unity of a diverse group of nations to combat global recession. But the legacy of the G-20 will ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Buyouts Keep Getting Bigger As Private Equity Firms Rush To Invest Billions Pouring Into New Funds
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The four-year-old boom in private equity investing reached a feverish pitch this summer as firms awash with cash hurried to put some of it to work in corporate takeovers and billions of dollars more poured ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Ice Begins Clearing Credit Default Swaps As Counterparty Risk Hits Record High
CORPORATE DEBT The first central counterparty clearinghouse for credit default swaps (CDS) began operating on March 9, the same day that perceptions of default risk among the largest derivatives market makers in the over-the-counter market rose to an ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Rush To Modernize Is Matched By The Race To Invest
CHINA Competition between Beijing and Shanghai to become China’s financial center intensified as Beijing officials launched a road show to lure European financial institutions to the capital. Although Shanghai is home to one of China’s two stock exchanges, ...
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Features: Annual survey best developped markets banks
WORLD’S BEST DEVELOPED MARKETS BANKS 2009 Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks in developed markets around the world. By Laurence Neville When Global Finance published its 2008 awards a year ago, the ...