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Milestones: Kraft-Cadbury Hookup Helps Define New World Of M&A

United States/United Kingdom By Gordon Platt A sweet deal: Kraft swallows Cadbury after a long battle US-based Kraft Foods’ $19.7 billion takeover of British chocolate maker Cadbury last month will create the world’s largest candy company. The deal ...

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Newsmakers: Mystery Buyer Bets Big On Treasury Bonds

United States By Gordon Platt Whodunnit? Mystery buyer mops up US treasuries The last thing the global financial markets need right now is a failed US treasury bond auction. Thankfully, recent auctions have gone smoothly, with the swelling ...

News

Newsmakers: Obama Bashes Banks And Seeks “Responsibility Fee”

United States By Gordon Platt Obama: Banks should call off their lawyers and lobbyists As a Congressional commission opened hearings last month on the cause of the financial crisis, United States president Barack Obama proposed a tax ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Newsmakers: Poor Compliance Sows Seeds Of Next Financial Meltdown

Global By Anita Hawser Johns: Compliance is key to avoiding another crash Senior banking and compliance officers surveyed by compliance solutions provider Complinet are already talking about the next financial crisis, which they believe will happen within ...

Features

All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international...

Features

China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description The global economic crisis has made clear China’s importance and expanding role on the world...

Features

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth...

Banking

Banks under fire

Tomorrow’s Battleground For Banks Banks and regulators worldwide are starting the new decade at loggerheads, but signs are slowly beginning to emerge that point to the future shape of regulation. By Nick Kochan Banks are on the ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Looking ahead: shifting sands

Shifting Sands Global Finance takes a long, hard look at the prospects for the coming decade. By Dan Keeler The first decade of the 21st century began with the spectacular and painful collapse of the dot-com bubble ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Dollars decline

The Dollar’s Decline A weak dollar may be beneficial to the US in the short term, but it is undermining the dollar’s long-term status as the de facto global currency. By Laurence Neville One of the rocks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The new world powers

THE NEW WORLD POWERS The coming decade will witness a fundamental rebalancing of economic power, setting the stage for this to become the Asian Century. By Harold L. Sirkin It is clear to almost everyone that ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Building Boom

Building Boom A much needed explosion in infrastructure spending is already under way in both developed and emerging markets. By Gordon Platt The world’s infrastructure will change dramatically in the decade ahead as a result of ...