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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

NO-SHOW AT IMF   By Thomas Clouse   China’s once-a-decade leadership transition will begin on November 8 at the Communist Party’s 18th Congress.   Chinese banks skipped the World Bank/IMF meetings in Tokyo last month amid a territorial dispute with Japan, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: The Renminbi As A Reserve Currency

THE RENMINBI GOES GLOBAL   By Gordon Platt   Pressure from BRIC countries for a new international reserve currency to replace the dollar is growing.   China, the world’s leading trading nation, would like to reap some of the benefits ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Risk Management: Business Continuity

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED   By Paula Green   Recent natural disasters in Japan and Thailand highlight the need for companies to insure against business interruption.   Photo Credits: RUCHOS / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM About the only sure thing risk managers and their insurers ...
AWARDS CEREMONY: LOCATION TOKYO

Award Ceremonies and Events

World’s Best Banks Awards Ceremony 2012

AWARDS CEREMONY: LOCATION TOKYO, JAPAN   Global Finance held its annual Best Banks awards ceremony in Tokyo in October. The event took place during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.   Financial leaders from around the world ...

Award Winners

Awards: World’s Biggest Banks 2012

ANNUAL SURVEY: The Big Get Bigger   By Andrew Cunningham   Global Finance presents the World’s Biggest Banks. Total assets are once again growing.   The world’s 50 biggest banks notched up assets of $65,956 billion at the end of ...

Award Winners

Awards: World’s Safest Banks 2012

ANNUAL SURVEY: DOWN, BUT NOT OUT   By Andrew Cunningham   Global Finance presents it annual ranking of The World’s Safest Banks.   European banks still account for 20 of the World’s Safest 50 Banks, but Europe’s hold on the ...

Banking

Central Banker Report Cards 2012

GUNNING FOR GROWTH   By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser   Global Finance presents its annual report on the performance of the world’s central bank governors.   Central banks of most of the major global economies are pulling ...

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 ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Santander Mexico IPO Sets Record

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS   By Gordon Platt   Santander, the eurozone’s biggest bank by market value, said it would issue up to $4.3 billion of shares in an initial public offering of up to 24.9% of its ...

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 ...
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