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Features
Emerging Market Companies Outperform US Companies on ESG
A new sustainability report by Morningstar reacheda surprising conclusion: ESG practices in some emerging markets are superior to those of the US.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Merger Fail Shows Limits To Cross-Border M&A
Singapore-based Broadcom redomiciled to the US, but it wasn't enough to get permission for its acquisition of US-basedQualcomm. Now Qualcomm's merger with the Netherlands'NXP may be at risk, as China and the US ratchet up their economic disputes.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Digital Cities | Amsterdam Makes The Most Of Its Fintech Credentials
Despite Brexit, London has managed to hang onto its status as Europe’s leading fintech hub, but Amsterdam is sneaking up behind.
Features
Value and Number of Cross-border M&A by Region/Country 2011-2013
Emerging markets overtook developed markets both in terms of sales and purchases of foreign acquisitions - accounting for 56% of total cross-border transactions in 2013.
Awards
Global Finance Names The Safest Banks In Western Europe 2015
NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2015 — Global Finance has named the Safest Banks in Western Europe in an exclusive survey to be published in the November 2015 issue. Banks were selected through an evaluation of long-term foreign currency ratings—from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch—and total assets of the 500 largest banks worldwide.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ANNUAL SURVEY: WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2014
In our 21st annual survey, Global Finance identifies the best banks in 150 countries and eight regions. The winners are not always the biggest banks, but rather, the best—those with the qualities that corporations should look for when choosing a bank.
Awards
BEST BANKS 2014: AFRICA
The financial system in Africa varies from the highly developed banking institutions of South Africa and Nigeria to the barely organized banking sector of South Sudan, the world’s newest country.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
GLOBAL IPO PROCEEDS RISE, BUT WILL IT LAST?
Led by the Asia-Pacific region, global proceeds from initial public offerings totaled more than $34 billion in the first quarter of 2014, an increase of 77% from the same period a year earlier, according to Renaissance Capital
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
INDONESIA REBUFFS FOREIGN INVESTORS: REVIEWS TRADE TREATIES
Only two weeks ahead of the April 9 parliamentary elections and under pressure from a billion-dollar lawsuit, the Indonesian government announced it would terminate some 67 bilateral investment treaties—which regulate investment in the country by foreigners—as they come up for renewal.
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Diplomacy And Trade
APRIL 2014 | VOL. 28 NO. 4 As we write, the Ukrainian crisis is in full swing, and the outcome...
Banking
World’s Best Investment Banks 2014
ANNUAL AWARDS: HIGH-OCTANE YEAR Global investment banks will face a tremendous challenge as they strive to continue running their underwriting businesses at the elevated levels they reached in 2013. Many of the largest banks on Wall Street reaped a windfall ...