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Features: World’s Best Sub-custodians

SUB-CUSTODIANS TACKLE NEW CHALLENGES Global Finance selects the leading providers of the specialized services that make cross-border investing possible. By Gordon Platt Global custodians and money managers are putting their sub-custodians under the microscope in the wake ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Cash Is King Again

The credit crunch made life more difficult for corporate treasurers in many waysnot least in managing their relationships with their...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Help Or Hindrance?

HELP OR HINDRANCE? Mounting concern over the economic prospects of the world’s poorest nations is encouraging developed nations to reassess their aid policies. By Antonio Guerrero World Bank president Robert Zoellick calls on the developed world ...

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Features: Annual survey best developped markets banks

WORLD’S BEST DEVELOPED MARKETS BANKS 2009 Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks in developed markets around the world. By Laurence Neville When Global Finance published its 2008 awards a year ago, the ...

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BEST DEVELOPED MARKET BANKS – 2008

Bermuda Butterfiled Bank Canada RBC United States JPMorgan Chase Austria Bank Austria Creditanstalt Belgium Fortis Bank Cyprius Bank of Cyprus...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Volatility Boosts Trading But Shuts Out Ipos

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS     Initial public offerings in the United States plunged 86% last year to the lowest level in 31 years, with only one IPO priced in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Thomson Reuters. By comparison, 60 ...

Banking

Features : After the Storm

BANKING CRISIS FALLOUT Colossal losses by financial institutions have prompted calls for more-effective regulation. Refining the Basel banking rules might provide the answer.     Global crisis: For the biggest names in banking there has been nowhere to hide from ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Surge Of Bank Mergers Dominates Deal Activity

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     Government-encouraged bank mergers and bailouts are keeping global M&A; activity alive amid the financial crisis, which has severely restricted financing for corporate buyouts. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo’s $15.1 billion acquisition of Wachovia, which derailed a ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : European Mergers Gain With Pair Of Big Deals

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Europe passed the United States in corporate dealmaking in August thanks to two large transactions, including a spin-off and a hostile bid. The total of US mergers and acquisitions for the year to date of $849 billion, ...

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Corporate Finance : Dollar Bounces Back As Fed Hits Pause Button

<p>FOREIGN EXCHANGE     The dollar rose to a two-month high against the euro last month after the Federal Reserve signaled a pause in its easing cycle, and European economic data came in weaker than expected. While the greenback is ...</p>

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Features: Awards: Islamic Financial Institutions

ANNUAL SURVEY / ISLAMIC FINANCE Global Finance selects the winners in a fast-growing area of finance that combines investing according to the tenets of Islamic law with modern financial products and systems.   Islamic finance is a system of ethical ...
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