Banking
Unicredits Recent Write-Offs Unlikely To Satisfy ECB
UniCredit Holding, Milan The write-offs taken in early March by UniCredit may fall well short of what Italys largest bank...
Italy
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Awards
World’s Best Developed Markets Banks 2014
Global Finance Names The World’s Best Developed Markets Banks 2014.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Polls & Stats: Joining The Developed Markets Club
The emerging economies average [on the PwC Escape Index, which measures how countries can escape from their current economic position...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
UK: Britain Is A Tax Haven
MILESTONES By Ronald Fink Fiat-Chryslers move from Italy to London, and the plans of other multinationals to relocate to the...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global M&A Falls To Lowest Since 2009
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The value of global mergers and acquisitions has failed to pick up, despite low interest rates and an improving global economy. Worldwide M&A totaled $2.4 trillion in 2013, a decline of 6% ...
Banking
SEPA Compliant: To Be Or Not To Be?
SPECIAL REPORT By Anita Hawser To be or not to be? Compliant, that is. Apparently, the answer is it doesn’t matter—at least not yet. Just a few weeks before the February 1 SEPA deadline came to pass, the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Smooth Move: Equity Derivs Offset Risk
MARKET FOCUS By Jonathan Gregson Equity derivatives are no longer the preserve of hedge funds. Institutional investors and corporates are increasingly using them to offset risk and manage share buybacks. Equity derivatives markets emerged from their post-financial-crisis ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Western Oil Companies Reach Out To Iran
MILESTONES By Michael Shari A fissure is opening in the bulwarks of Western sanctions that have isolated Iran from the...
Banking
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
<em style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Global Finance<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">magazine named the World’s Best Trade Finance Banks 2014.</span>
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Will the ‘Google Tax’ Go Viral?
Tax officials perplexed by Google (Photo: CoolCaesar) If 2013 was the year public opinion turned solidly against the tax avoidance...
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 ...