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Features: Annual Survey: Best Trade Finance Banks

BANKERS GET READY FOR REBOUND IN WORLD TRADE Trade finance and risk management services are in growing demand as world trade recovers and credit issues remain a concern. By Gordon Platt The outlook for global trade is ...

Banking

Features: Focus: Global Custody

Settling Up Europe’s exchanges are working hard to reduce the complexity of clearing and settlement across the region. By Anita Hawser Any custodian doing business inEurope is used to dealing with “spaghetti”—not the variety of Italian ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Dollars decline

The Dollar’s Decline A weak dollar may be beneficial to the US in the short term, but it is undermining the dollar’s long-term status as the de facto global currency. By Laurence Neville One of the rocks ...

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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 ...

News

Newsmakers: Rusal Flotation Struggles Amid Turbulence

Russia By Kim Iskyan Heavy burden: Deripaska’s empire is weighed down with debt Oleg Deripaska’s plans to float Rusal, the world’s largest aluminum company, in a December IPO are facing serious turbulence. The company, according to some metals ...

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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 ...

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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...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: FX Swaps Get Kid-Glove Treatment

Swaps Foreign exchange swaps appear to be about to emerge unscathed from the flurry of new regulation prompted by the recent financial turmoil. By Gordon Platt Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, released a ...

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Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2009

During one of the toughest years on record, the world’s central bankers were tested as never before. Contributors: Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Dan Keeler It is clear that 2009 is not a year on which ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Turkey: EU Accession Process

WAITING IN THE WINGS Egemen Bagis, chief negotiator, says the country’s reform efforts will pay off and admits that Turkey has made some mistakes in the past. By Gordon Platt Turkey somberly marked the 50th anniversary in ...

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WORLD’S TOP CENTRAL BANKERS 2009

New York, September 28th 2009 – Global Finance magazine (website: www.gfmag.com) has named the heads of the central banks of...

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WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2009

Istanbul, October 6th, 2009 – Global Finance magazine hosted its thirteenth annual Best Bank Awards ceremony on October 6th, 2009,...