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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 ...

Award Winners

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 ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features : Breaking Up Or Breaking Down?

THE DECOUPLING DEBATE Proponents of the theory that emerging markets are decoupling from the West’s economies have had a tough year. Their vision may yet be coming true, though. If the United States sneezes, the rest of the world ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Confidence Declines As Exports Tumble

CHINA China's exporters are feeling the effects of a global economic slowdown. China’s central bank released three surveys—of banks, consumers and companies—in late September reflecting falling confidence in the country’s economy. According to the survey of companies, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Taiwan And China Strengthen Ties

CHINA Fuel up: China's rising inflation rate is causing official concern. China and Taiwan agreed in June to open representative offices in each other’s capitals to promote better communication between ...

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

Cover Story: Asia’s big year

Asia’s most dynamic economies are amassing huge cash fortunes that they can then wield to increase their power around the world. Will 2008 be the year when we t ruly see the balance of global power shift to the ...

Banking

Cover Story : A Calming Influence

CENTRAL BANKERS PERSPECTIVES Central bankers deserve much of the credit for the financial world’s ability to ride out tumultuous market conditions. Global Finance asked the central bankers who were awarded “A” grades in our recent central banker report ...

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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 ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : In For The Long Haul

ANALYSIS / INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING Many Asian countries desperately need to upgrade their infrastructure while cash-rich private equity funds are scouring the region for long-term investments. Is this a match made in heaven? Nag: We can only meet a small ...

Banking

Milestones : Shariah Japan 100 Index Forms Basis Of Islamic ETF

JAPAN Toyota: Top holding in new ETF. Tokyo-based Daiwa Asset Management will create an exchange-traded fund based on the newly formed FTSE Shariah Japan 100 index. The ETF, which will be listed on the Singapore Exchange in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Chinas Solar-energy Ipos Getting Bigger

Global equity/drs China-based manufacturers of products that convert the sun’s rays to electricity are raising growing sums of money on Wall Street to expand their production facilities to meet expanding demand for alternative energy in the face of ...