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BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS – 2008
Global Finance magazine has released its sixth annual ranking of the Best Sub-Custodians. This exclusive survey will be published in...
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BEST TRADE FINANCE PROVIDERS – 2008
CATEGORY SUB-CATEGORY WINNER REGIONAL WINNER Americas Citi Europe BNP Paribas CEE UniCredit Nordic Region SEB Middle East Arab Bank Asia...
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MID YEAR SAFEST BANKS RANKINGS – 2009
RANKING BANK COUNTRY 1 KfW Germany 2 Caisse des Dpots et Consignations (CDC) France 3 Bank Nederlands Gemeenten (BNG) Netherlands...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Bailouts Cushion Decline In 2008 Global Mergers
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The volume of worldwide mergers and acquisitions fell 30% last year compared with 2007, but the decline in announced deals would have been even larger without the government bailouts of financial institutions, which represented a ...
Banking
Features : Back To Basics
SECTOR REPORT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS A series of disastrous investments in Western banks and mounting pressure to invest locally is prompting a sea change in sovereign wealth funds’ investment attitudes. Dickinson: Some SWFs are facing pressure to diversify their ...
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Features: World’s best trade finance banks 2009
ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS Trade finance banks are enjoying rising demand for basic risk management services as world trade faces a difficult period. Global trade is expected to decline in 2009 for the first time since 1982, ...
Banking
Milestones : Asia’s 1 Billion Muslims Beckon Islamic Bankers
ASIA-PACIFIC Asia looks to cash in on its emerging Islamic financial center status. The Asia-Pacific region already accounts for 60% of the world’s Islamic banking assets and could be a center of growth for the shariah-compliant finance industry ...
Country Report
Features : Country Report : Taiwan
Policymakers in Taiwan are pulling out all the stops in their response to the global economic slump. Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou: Promoting better relations with China. Taiwan is an economic success story. The island, despite political ...
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Features : World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2009
BEST FX PROVIDERS Global Finance selects the leaders in the world’s biggest financial market. The foreign exchange market has continued to thrive throughout the global financial crisis, providing some welcome profits for beleaguered financial institutions. Average daily turnover has ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : IMF And Fed Fail To Stem Asset Flight
NEWS The International Monetary Fund’s new short-term lending program and Federal Reserve swap lines could help ease currency and interest rate pressures in eligible emerging market countries but may be no panacea for the exodus of private funds ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Hong Kong To Trade Drs To Boost Foreign Listings
GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Hong Kong’s stock exchange has put a framework in place to begin trading depositary receipts, which will make it the only Asian exchange to allow DR issuers to target retail investors. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKex) ...
Banking
Features : The Threat From Within
AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE Despite the increasingly sophisticated solutions deployed to prevent it, rogue trading is still a serious problem in the banking industry. Every year banks spend billions deploying sophisticated filtering and electronic “perimeter fence” technologies to try to ...