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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 ...

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

Corporate Finance : Europe Widens Lead Over Us In Mergers

Mergers & acquisitions Milan-based UniCredito Italiano’s agreement to merge with Rome-based bank Capitalia in a stock-swap transaction valued at $29.5 billion has widened Europe’s lead over the United States in announced M&A; activity so far this year. Thanks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tensions With Trading Partners Reach New Low

Russia Russia's Vladimir Putin at the recent G-8 summit Relations between Russia and the West plunged to fresh post-Cold War lows, as the planned US missile shield in the Czech Republic, the investigation of the death of Alexander ...

Banking

Features : Change Agents

CUSTODY & INVESTORS’ SERVICES Over the past three decades, the global custody and investors’ services industry has facilitated some of the most dramatic and far-reaching changes in the global financial services landscape. More than 30 years ago Chase Manhattan bank ...

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...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Record Low For Dollar Not End Of Its Descent

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar fell to a record low against the euro last month and a 25-year low against the British pound following news that US economic growth in the first quarter was the weakest in four years. ...

Technology

Cover Story : Stepping Up

GOING GLOBAL Lacking the financial clout of multinationals or small enterprises’ easy access to government grants, mid-size companies are riding the wave of new technologies and today’s more liberal trading and regulatory schemes to successfully break into foreign ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

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Features : The Worlds Safest Banks 2007

TCM Guide 2007 : Sepa: Reaching Beyond European Borders

Corporate Finance : Europe Widens Lead Over Us In Mergers

Emerging Markets : Tensions With Trading Partners Reach New Low

Features : Change Agents

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

Corporate Finance : Record Low For Dollar Not End Of Its Descent

Cover Story : Stepping Up

Emerging Markets : Singapore Exchange Racks Up Global Listings

Corporate Finance : Corporate Financing Focus

Corporate Finance : Porsche Pursuing Vw In Low Gear

Milestones : Exchange Chalks Up First Chinese Listing