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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: Stimulus Packages Present Rich Pickings For Fraudsters

GLOBAL By Anita Hawser Abbey: Massive investment leaves door open for fraud With governments around the world doling out billions in stimulus packages or infrastructure projects to help revive flagging economies in the wake of the subprime crisis, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Big Emerging Market Mergers Create World-scale Competitors

Mergers & Acquisitions BY GORDON PLATT Two of Brazil's biggest food companies, Perdigão and Sadia, plan to merge in a stock-swap transaction that will create a multinational food company with annual sales of $10.6 billion. The new company, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Dollar Bulls Hope Fed Aces Policy Transition

Foreign Exchange BY GORDON PLATT Signs that the US economy is bottoming out and hopes that the Federal Reserve will deftly handle the transition to a less accommodative monetary policy are boosting the dollar, analysts say. They say ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: High-yield Issuance Hits 30-month Peak

Corporate Debt BY GORDON PLATT Companies rushing to refinance bank loans borrowed more than $24 billion in the high-yield debt market in the United States in May, the most since November 2006, according to Montpelier, Vermont-based KDP Investment ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: The Power Of Hope

President Obama's determination to do "whatever it takes" to rebuild the economy appears to be paying off. But it is his actions across the whole range of policy initiatives that will have the greatest impact on global corporations. By ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Insurance Insecurity

In the wake of the near-collapse of AIG, many companies are taking a much closer look at the health of their own insurers. By Paula L.Green Corporate risk officers are asking more questions, checking more documents, diversifying their ...

Award Winners

Features: World’s Best Sub-custodians

SUB-CUSTODIANS TACKLE NEW CHALLENGES Global Finance selects the leading providers of the specialized services that make cross-border investing possible. By Gordon Platt Global custodians and money managers are putting their sub-custodians under the microscope in the wake ...

Banking

Central Bankers Report Cards 2008

CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS 2008 ANNUAL SURVEY/ CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Contributors: Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Gordon Platt History...

Award Winners

BEST INVESTMENT BANKS – 2009

The clouds parted over the investment banking business in the first quarter of this year amid some hope that a...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story: All Change

Recent financial turmoil has accelerated the seismic shifts taking place in the balance of global economic and political power. How the major powers act in the coming years will determine the future shape of globalization. BY LAURENCE NEVILLE The global ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Editors Letter : Thriving In A Culture Of Change

The shake-out of the past two years has exposed the fragility of many elements of the global financial system, but one thing it has not done that many previous crises have done is flatten the emerging markets. As we find ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Exchange-Traded Derivatives Prove Their Worth

EXCHANGE-TRADED DERIVATIVES PROVE THEIR WORTH As product offerings grow and pricing improves, exchange-traded derivatives are increasingly appealing to both corporate and institutional buyers of derivatives contracts. By DENISE BEDELL Of the lessons learned by companies during the ...