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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: High-Yield Credit Quality Rises

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Denise Bedell After a record year, and four months hovering at around $30 billon in monthly issuance volumes, US high-yield debt issuance declined in December to $21 billion, according to data ...

News

South Korea: Trade Pact To Fuel Export Growth

MILESTONES: SOUTH KOREA By Thomas Clouse Seoul: Tighter ties with the United States South Korea finalized details of its free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States last month, more than three years after the former presidents of ...

Features

Call for entries: World’s Best Investment Bank Awards 2011

World’s Best Investment Bank Awards 2011 In April 2011, Global Finance will publish its selections for World’s Best Investment Banks....

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: Latin America

COVER STORY: MUTUAL BENEFITS By Antonio Guerrero Latin America is enjoying growing prosperity as the region develops ever-stronger economic ties with Asia. When Chinese President Hu Jintao took his first tour of Latin America in 2004, he ...

Award Ceremonies and Events

World’s Best Internet Bank Awards Ceremony 2010

DATE: NOVEMBER 2, 2010 LOCATION: HARVARD CLUB, NEW YORK Representatives of most of the first-round winners of Global Finance 's World's Best Internet Banks awards came together on November 2 at the Harvard Club in New York for ...

Award Winners

WORLD’S BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2011

NEW YORK, November 22, 2010 Global Finance magazine has named the “Best Foreign Exchange Banks and Providers” by country, region...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Coming In From The Cold

ANALYSIS : CUBA By Antonio Guerrero For the first time in decades, signs are beginning to appear that Cuba may be softening its socialist stance. When Cuba's former president Fidel Castro told an American journalist in September ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Cross-Border Trade

TRAIL BLAZERS By Gordon Platt Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order. The Bric countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China—have a combined gross domestic product that is greater than that of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: The Rising Euro

RALLY CAUSES CONCERN AMONG EXPORTERS By Jonathan Gregson After a year in the doldrums, the euro's rise has caught many by surprise. Europe currently looks like the unintended fall guy amidst the beggar-thy-neighbor round of central bank ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Who’s who

WHO'S WHO By Gordon Platt Key players in foreign exchange. Jamie Thorsen Executive managing director BMO Capital Markets Jamie Thorsen heads global foreign exchange operations in Canada, the US and Europe for BMO Capital Markets and oversees ...

News

United States: Can Consumers Rescue The US Economy?

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt Spending again: US shoppers head to the mall Surprisingly strong US retail sales in September virtually ruled out the possibility of a double-dip recession. Consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of US ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The World’s Best Bank Awards Ceremony 2010

DATE: OCTOBER 9, 2010 LOCATION: WASHINGTON NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON For the last twelve years, Global Finance has conducted its...