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BEST INTERNET BANKS IN MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA 2009
NEW YORK, July 21, 2009 Global Finance has announced the First Round winners in the World’s Best Internet Banks competition...
Ghana
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP Africa
South Africa’s Standard Bank, Africa’s largest lender by assets, has become the first international financial institution to join the IFC’s $5 billion global trade liquidity program. The program aims to extend loans to regional banks for on-lending to importers and ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story : Africa in Squeeze
AFRICA IN A SQUEEZE By Paula Green Africa faces an uncertain future as its key economies suffer multiple setbacks and the global slump threatens to constrict the flow of investment. By Paula L. Green Being ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features: Global Custody
BUYER’S GUIDE Global Finance presents its annual sponsored guide to the leading providers in the global custody market. SUB-CUSTODIANS DEUTSCHE BANK Custody Assets: 2008: €1.272 trillion 2007: €1.609 trillion Ratings: Moody’s Aa1, S&P; A+, Fitch AA- ...
Award Winners
BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2008
REGIONAL WINNER Standard Bank COUNTRY WINNER Angola BES Angola Botswana Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Cote dIvoire Ecobank Ethiopia NIB International...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story: African stepping up
AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development is still constrained by a historic dearth of infrastructure investment. Private sector investors might be able to provide the hitherto missing link. Controversial development: Dams such as the Kariba on ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Kenya Calling
AFRICA Kenya's mobile communications industry flourishes following IPO of Safaricom. A June IPO by Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom was oversubscribed by 532%, according to Kenya’s finance minister Amos Kimunya. The government exercised a provision allowing ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story: The Found Continent
AFRICA Long ignored by mainstream investors and corporations, Africa has suddenly found itself in the spotlight. Its resilience in the recent credit crunch is just part of the reason. An oil worker stands on the deck of ...
Country Report
Features: Troubled Giant
COUNTRY REPORT / NIGERIA Despite vast hydrocarbon reserves and a government committed to economic diversification, Nigeria still faces tremendous problems. A resurgence in its banking sector may help accelerate future progress. Oil is Nigeria’s lifeline, accounting for some 80% ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Singapore Exchange Racks Up Global Listings
DR NEWS Uttam Galva Steels, based in Khopoli in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, has become the first Indian...
Banking
Cover Story : Murabahah Goes Mainstream
A modern form of Islamic trade financing has taken root and is flourishing in the Middle East With its ancient...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Citigroup And WFP Work Together To Combat Hunger
SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE Jim Morris of the WFP on arecent visit to Sudan GLOBAL FINANCE : Is the WFP Emergency Network...