Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : CLS: Settling for Less
CLS Bank was introduced to address foreign exchange settlement risk in the interbank market,but its risk-reduction and netting benefits could...
Hong Kong
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Banking
Features : Best Sub-custodians In 2003
Global Finance selects the winners in a specialized area of financeone that is often hidden to end-users of custody services....
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Global Depositary Receipts
EUROPE Six Continents Split-Up Creates Two New ADRs Two new American depositary receipt programs were created in April as a...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Hong Kong’s Peg Could Come Loose
ASIA Hong Kongs budget deficit keeps getting bigger, while deflation has been consistently underestimated, analysts say. The special administrative regions...
Banking
Features : Best Bank in Region: HSBC
ASIA Born in Hong Kong in 1865, HSBC continues to dominate the banking industry in Asia.Over the past year, it...
News
Features : Global Money Go-Round
CONTINUOUS LINKED SETTLEMENT A new settlement system aims to cut out settlement risk. Way back in June 1974, a small...
Banking
Features : World’s Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers
Global Finance selects the worlds best. The real-time global settlement process took a major leap forward in September 2002, when...
Banking
Features : World’s Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2003
Global Finance selects the leaders in the $1.25 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market. The foreign exchange market, with daily turnover of...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : ADR Trading Volume Up, Despite Weak Markets
THE AMERICAS Trading of American depositary receipts rose 6.8% in volume terms in 2002 to 28 billion shares, according to...
News
Cover Story : A Tangled Debate
Public Private Partnerships are sweeping the globe, but in the country where they have been most used PPPs remain deeply...
Banking
Features : World’s Best Trade Finance Banks 2003
The financial services industry enhances its role as trusted intermediary by taking the risk out of international transactions As the...
News
Cover story : Thinks to Look for in 2003
Japanese Bank Failure? Might a large Japanese bank fail in 2003? Quite possibly, say analysts, who point out that the...