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Features: Awards Best Emerging Market Banks 2010 Africa

AFRICA By Gordon Platt REGIONAL WINNER: Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered Bank's earnings from its African operations rose 54% last year to $482 million. The London-based emerging markets bank receives 90% of its income and profits from Asia, ...

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Features: Awards Best Emerging Market Banks 2010 Middle East

MIDDLE EAST By Gordon Platt REGIONAL WINNER : National Bank of Kuwait National Bank of Kuwait, the leading bank in Kuwait and the highest-rated bank in the Middle East, earned $925 million last year, an increase of 4% ...

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WORLD’S BEST ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 2010

Global Finance names the World’s Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2010 NEW YORK, April 15, 2010 Global Finance magazine has announced...

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Middle East Supplement: Oil Wealth Keeps Economic Stimulus Flowing

MIDDLE EAST: ECONOMY Government spending will keep the Middle East’s economic recovery on track in 2010. By Gordon Platt The Middle East rode out the global recession better than the major industrialized economies, and the ...

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Middle East Supplement: Region Takes The Lead In Going Green

MIDDLE EAST: RENEWABLE ENERGY Oil producers aim to turn the desert sunshine into a new export: solar energy. By Gordon Platt When the oil runs out, the sun will still be shining and the Middle East ...

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BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS MIDDLE EAST 2010

Global Finance names the 2010 World’s Best Emerging Market Banks in the Middle East NEW YORK, March 23, 2010 —...

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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 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Middle East

Roundup By Gordon Platt ExxonMobil is first US company to win Iraq oil contract A joint venture of ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell has clinched a $50 billion deal to develop one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields, the ...

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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 ...

Features

Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description Dubai has a remarkable success story. Since its origins as a small fishing and pearling...

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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 ...

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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,...