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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Russia, Mexico Depositary Receipts

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, raised $5 billion in a secondary share sale in London and Moscow in September that had been delayed for more than a year because of unfavorable ...

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Forecasts May Be Down,But Hope Is Rising

The annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Tokyo in October confirmed that the economic slowdown of Europe, and to a lesser extent of Japan and the US, has negatively affected emerging markets growth...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Features

Trade Flows Little-Affected By Japan-China Dispute

Trade flows between China and Japan have notyetbeen materially affected by an ongoing territorial dispute, according to Sibos attendees. John...

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 ...