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Banking

Features : Opportunity Play

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS Sovereign wealth funds snap up bargains in one of the biggest financial industry land grabs in history. Bader Al Sa'ad, head of Kuwait's SWF, helped arrange a huge cash infusion for Citi. To say Citi and ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Investors Line Up For A Scalping

Nicaragua Guevara: Deal will put an end to lawsuits. When Nicaragua offered commercial creditors a 95.5% haircut on $1.4 billion in commercial debt as part of a workout, the deal appeared to be more of a scalping. Yet ...

Country Report

Features : Country Report: Iceland

EXPANDING HORIZONS ICELAND Iceland is going all out to expand its economy—and the global reach of its banks and corporations. With a wealthy consumer base that has the sixth-highest per capita GDP in the OECD, 0.8% unemployment, negligible ...

Banking

Features : Changing The Game

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS With sovereign wealth funds rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces in global finance, one key question has emerged: Should they be feared or revered? With the subprime-induced credit crunch causing stocks of financial giants such ...

Award Winners

Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Individually, many of the world’s leading central bankers seemed to be in disarray after the subprime debacle began to unfold in mid-2007. As a group, though, they acted with remarkably unity. The central ...

Banking

Features : Seeking Out Growth

REGIONAL REPORT / NORDIC BANKING As Nordic banks look further outside their home markets for growth, the rewards—and also the risks—are increasing. Over the past few years, banks in the Nordic region have benefited from highly favorable economic conditions across ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story : Crisis? What crisis?

After a decade of tumultuous upheavals in the 1990s, the currency markets in the 21st century have been remarkably calm....

Banking

Features : Best Banks In Project Finance 2006

Annual survey/ worlds best project finance banks Global Finance selects the winners from among the leading banks that create and...

News

Milestones : US Cracks Down On Bribes To Foreigners

United States Cash in hand: Clamp down on bribes The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Aer Lingus Ipo Lists On London Exchange

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Aer Lingus, Irelands state airline, bucked worries over high fuel prices and potential terrorist threats to post an...

News

Features : New Avenues For Growth

REGIONAL REPORT / NORDIC BANKING Facing increasing competition, banks within the Nordic region are looking to new products and new...

News

Milestones : Banker Bags Peace Prize

BANGLADESH/NORWAY Yunus developed Microcredit while working as an economist in Bangladesh Norways Nobel Institute broke with tradition in October when,...