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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Spectrum Demand Spurs Telco Deals

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Mobile telecom service providers are making a mad dash for broadband spectrum by acquiring competitors, in a modern-day version of the Oklahoma land rush of 1889. T-Mobile USA, owned ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Risk Management: Property Insurance

STUMBLING OFF THE BLOCKS By Dave Lenckus Investors are piling into rapidly growing markets such as Brazil and Argentina. Financing risk in such markets can be fraught with difficulty, but insurance options are available. Economic data shows ...

Award Winners

World’s BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2013

Global Finance names the World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2013 NEW YORK, November 27, 2012 Global Finance magazine has named...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Who’s Who In Foreign Exchange

WHO’S WHO By Gordon Platt Global Finance ’s annual list of Who’s Who in Foreign Exchange Mohamed El Aroussi Arab African International Bank Chief dealer and head of FX desk El Aroussi, chief dealer at Arab ...

Banking

Polls and Stats: Emerging Markets Lead Higher Education Grads

Tertiary Degree Graduates Aged 25-34 (in millions) </scr ipt> Tertiary Degrees By Percentage of OECD And G20 Total * OECD estimate based on the same average annual growth rate as that observed between 2000 and 2009 + Germany and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Risk Management: Business Continuity

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED By Paula Green Recent natural disasters in Japan and Thailand highlight the need for companies to insure against business interruption. Photo Credits: RUCHOS / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM About the only sure thing risk managers and their insurers ...

Banking

Salon: Luigi Zingales Populist Revolt

POPULIST REVOLT By Vanessa Drucker Global Finance held its monthly Salon in the magazine’s New York office with Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago and author ...

Banking

The Growth Of International Remittances

BANKS FOLLOW THE MIGRANT MONEY TRAIL By Michael Shari Banks in emerging markets are building a lucrative business on remittances sent home by workers in developed nations. Alberto Raúl Guerra Rodríguez has had his hands full for ...

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Awards: World’s Safest Banks 2012

ANNUAL SURVEY: DOWN, BUT NOT OUT By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance presents it annual ranking of The World’s Safest Banks. European banks still account for 20 of the World’s Safest 50 Banks, but Europe’s hold on the ...

Banking

Central Banker Report Cards 2012: The Americas

By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser The Americas ARGENTINA Mercedes Marcó del Pont Grade: D Marcó del Pont has focused much of her efforts over the past year on imposing draconian foreign exchange restrictions. Controls began after last ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Euro Supported By ECB Plan To Buy Bonds

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro rebounded to a two-month high in early September, as European...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Hailemariam To Lead Ethiopia’s Transformation

NEWSMAKERS: ETHIOPIA By Valentina Pasquali Plagued by corruption and emerging from three decades of stable but authoritarian government, Ethiopia is undergoing its first peaceful transfer of power after the death, in August, of longtime prime minister Meles Zenawi. ...