Emerging & Frontier Markets
SIBOS 2012 – Asian Companies Centralize Treasury To Manage Global Growth
Chinese corporates are still focusing on domestic growth—but also starting to set up manufacturing bases worldwide. They are moving up...
India
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Banking
Africa: Oil & Gas
DIFFFICULT CHOICES By Antonio Guerrero African oil producers stand to benefit from continued sanctions on Iranian oil exports. But their path is not without challenges. As the US and EU tighten the screws on Iran, imposing sanctions ...
Banking
Central Banker Report Cards 2012: Asia-Pacific
By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser ASIA-PACIFIC AUSTRALIA Glenn Stevens Grade: A Stevens has his hands full managing an economy with booming mining and financial sectors and weakness elsewhere. So far, he has managed to keep the overall ...
Banking
The Struggle For Energy & Power In Asia
ASIA'S POWER NEXUS By Arthur Clennam I ndia relies on Indonesian coal to power its utilities, and both nations face huge increases in coal-fired power demand. But bureaucratic red tape makes it difficult for either nation to increase ...
Award Winners
Awards: Project Finance & Infrastructure
CHANGING OF THE GUARD IN PROJECT FINANCE By Gordon Platt As public purse strings tighten, pension funds are the most promising source of long-term funding for infrastructure projects, according to an OECD report supported by Oliver Wyman. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover: Searching for Global Demand
DEMAND WHERE WILL IT COME FROM? By Laurence Neville The worldwide call for public, private and corporate debt reduction raises the question of where spending and demand will come from going forward. Particularly now, as emerging markets stars—such ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s Letter: The Demand Dilemma
In the Western world, September is synonymous with the beginning of the school year, and represents the resumption of full economic activity after summer vacation...
Award Winners
Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Global Winners
By Gordon Platt FINANCIAL ADVISER: HSBC When Abu Dhabi needed a financial adviser for its latest seawater desalination and power project, Mirfa IWPP, it selected HSBC on their longstanding relationship and the bank’s reputation, without opening the contract to competitive ...
Award Winners
Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Regional Winners
By Gordon Platt NORTH AMERICA FINANCIAL ADVISER: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group MUFG led the $585 million nonrecourse financing of the Wind Energy Transmission Texas project, and structured a $387 million construction loan for the Lone Star Transmission project, a 329-mile transmission ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasury & Cash Management: Asia—Latin America Trade Builds New Frontiers
EXPEDITING GROWTH By Anita Hawser Trade flows between Latin America and Asia are growing at a phenomenal pace. An increasing number and variety of banks and other agencies are providing liquidity and trade finance solutions to nurture these ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasury & Cash Management: Who’s Who
WHO’S WHO Global Finance’s annual list of Who’s Who in Treasury & Cash Management Bank of America Merrill Lynch Paul Simpson Head of global transaction services Paul Simpson joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in May 2011 and ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Veteran Indian Finance Minister Back In The Finance Seat
NEWSMAKERS: INDIA By Luca Ventura Often labeled arrogant and brusque, India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, is not the most popular politician within his own Congress Party and not much in the public eye. Chidambaram's new ministerial appointment ...