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World’s Best Trade Finance Banks

Jump To See Winners ANNUAL SURVEY: TRADE FINANCE BECOMES AN ASSET CLASS Global Finance presents its annual awards for the Best Trade Finance Institutions globally, regionally, and by country. The outlook for the trade finance business in 2014 is rosy, ...

Awards

World’s Best Trade Finance Banks 2014

Global Financemagazine named the World’s Best Trade Finance Banks 2014.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Bullish US Investors In China Shop

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt As exchanges in London, Hong Kong and New York compete for the opportunity to host an expected $15 billion initial public offering by China’s e-commerce leader Alibaba, US investors are once again ...

Awards

World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers

ANNUAL SURVEY — STABILITY AMID CHANGE By Gordon Platt A global investigation into trading irregularities has not hampered growth or innovation in one of the world’s largest and most volatile markets—foreign exchange. The $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange ...

Banking

Asian Trade: Mind the Gap

Is Basel III to blame for the $425 billion shortfall in trade finance in developing Asia? Some observers think so, but others say trade finance needs to go back to basics.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Deflation Woes Deflate the Euro

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS The outlook for the euro has worsened, following a slowdown in inflation in the eurozone to the lowest level in nearly four years. The European Central Bank cut its benchmark rate to a record low of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Globalization At A Crossroads

Twelve months is a long time in financial markets, and the phenomenon of globalization appears to have reached a fork in the road, with growth in emerging markets looking challenged. Is the globalization frenzy coming to an end?

News

India And Indonesia: Going Cold Turkey

The prospect of US Fed “tapering” is still taking its toll on Indonesia and India, as both nations face mounting deficits and international pressure for structural reform.

Awards

World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2013

Global Financemagazine has named the World’s Best Foreign ExchangeProviders 2014.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

24-Hour Delivery People: Alibaba Sets Audacious Logistics Goal in China

Alibaba’s HQ in Hangzhou: Stealing a march on Wal-Mart (photo: Thomas Lombard) At his first public engagement as Alibaba Groups...

Banking

Cover Story: Chinas Third Revolution

WHAT SECTORS WILL GAIN? By Arthur Clennam With its new leadership, China is changing. And with transformation comes opportunity. Reform...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Foreign Exchange 2013: Renminbi Trading

RENMINBI RUCKUS By Gordon Platt London and Paris are vying to become Europe’s renminbi trading hub. Paris is challenging London, the leading center of foreign exchange trading globally, to be the hub of renminbi trading in Europe. ...