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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: Asia

COVER STORY: IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT By Anita Hawser Emerging Asia has consolidated its role as the most powerful engine of global economic recovery—but threats to the region's growing prosperity remain. The first thing British prime minister ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: Latin America

COVER STORY: MUTUAL BENEFITS By Antonio Guerrero Latin America is enjoying growing prosperity as the region develops ever-stronger economic ties with Asia. When Chinese President Hu Jintao took his first tour of Latin America in 2004, he ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global IPO Pipeline Filling Up Quickly

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/ DRS By Gordon Platt Companies based in China and India dominated global initial public offerings in the first three quarters of 2010, and now the US is getting ready to join the new-equity ...

Award Winners

WORLD’S BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2011

NEW YORK, November 22, 2010 Global Finance magazine has named the “Best Foreign Exchange Banks and Providers” by country, region...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Cross-Border Trade

TRAIL BLAZERS By Gordon Platt Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order. The Bric countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China—have a combined gross domestic product that is greater than that of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Currency Conflict Is Not A War

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, touched a raw nerve when he stated in late September that an international currency war had broken out. It may seem like a war ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: The Rising Euro

RALLY CAUSES CONCERN AMONG EXPORTERS By Jonathan Gregson After a year in the doldrums, the euro's rise has caught many by surprise. Europe currently looks like the unintended fall guy amidst the beggar-thy-neighbor round of central bank ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Mexico: Bond Issue Breaks New Ground

MILESTONES: MEXICO By Antonio Guerrero Mexico’s financing needs taken care of with century bond Mexico may have set the stage for a stampede in October when it successfully issued Latin America's first-ever sovereign century bond, a $1 billion, ...

Features

OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency, 1998-2010

Currency Distribution Of Global Foreign Exchange Market Turnover You will need javascript to view this feature. Currency distribution of foreign exchange market turnover reflects the share of overall trading volumes of a particular currency. The US dollar continues to decline ...

Features

OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency Pair, 1998-2010

Global Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency Pair (US$ billion) You will need javascript to view this feature. Data is from the Bank for International Settlements Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity, September, 2010. Click ...

Banking

Asia’s Banks Take The Lead

EM REGIONAL BANKING FOCUS: ASIA By Michael Shari A consistent focus on traditional-style banking has enabled Asia's financial giants to emerge from the recent crisis in fine fettle. On any given day at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Foreign Exchange

EUROPE’S DEBT PANIC BRINGS DOWN EURO, SPURS DOLLAR RALLY By Gordon Platt Weakness in the euro is contributing to the...