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Features: Country Focus: Japan

JAPAN SCRAMBLES FOR A FRESH START Japan’s new government is working hard to find ways to rouse the country’s economy from its persistent malaise. By Thomas Clouse Japan is a country of economic contrasts. It is a nation ...

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Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis...

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The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The new world powers

THE NEW WORLD POWERS The coming decade will witness a fundamental rebalancing of economic power, setting the stage for this to become the Asian Century. By Harold L. Sirkin It is clear to almost everyone that ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Mergers & Acquisitions

Taiwan Emerges As Tech M&A; Hot Spot By Gordon Platt In the biggest merger ever in Taiwan, liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor maker Innolux Display agreed in November to acquire Chi Mei Optoelectronics, which makes LCD panels for ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Building Boom

Building Boom A much needed explosion in infrastructure spending is already under way in both developed and emerging markets. By Gordon Platt The world’s infrastructure will change dramatically in the decade ahead as a result of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Credit Where It’s Due

Credit Where It’s Due As governments around the world contemplate reeling in the financial lifelines that helped them prevent a global systemic meltdown, the prospects for credit growth in the coming decade are still unclear. By Antonio Guerrero ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards: World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers

THE NEED FOR SPEED The foreign exchange market is growing—and operating—at lightning speed. Global Finance selects the leaders of the world's biggest financial market. By Gordon Platt The best banks in the foreign exchange market performed well ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: Asia Prepares To Unleash Its Full Potential

EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS: ASIA Asia has confounded skeptics with its remarkable rebound, but its continued rapid growth will depend on some tough decisions. By Thomas Clouse Asia’s economic outlook was bleak this time last year. Despite ...

News

Newsmakers: New Premier Charts A Difficult Course

Japan By Thomas Clouse Hatoyama: Tough decision will be made a little easier with news of recent economic growth Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) swept into office in September with pledges ...

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World’s Best Internet Banks Part II

BANKS DEVELOP SOCIAL SKILLS In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best global and regional Internet banks. By Adam Rombel Not many of the headlines about the global banking industry in the ...

Award Winners

BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2010

Global Finance names the World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2010 NEW YORK, November 17, 2009 Global Finance magazine has named...