Economics, Policy & Regulation
Cybersecurity – 2015’s Top Priority
Last year ended with a data breach of the US retailer Target, this year "The Sony Hack". What will 2015 hold for cyberattacks and cybersecurity?
Economics, Policy & Regulation
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING FIGHTER CHAIRS KEY VATICAN UNIT
<strong>Vatican | Newsmakers</strong><br />
René Brülhart, known as the “James Bond of the financial world” for his high-profile role in cases such as the return of assets from Saddam Hussein to post-war Iraq and the uncovering of the Siemens bribery scandal, has become chairman of the Vatican’s anti-money-laundering unit.<br />
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ARGENTINA’S TAX DEPARTMENT STRIPS PROCTER & GAMBLE LICENSE
<strong>Corporate Tax | Management</strong><br />
Approximately 500 American companies operate in Argentina—but on November 3 that number abruptly decreased by one as the country’s tax authority, the Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP) revoked the company’s registration, accusing P&G of tax and accounting fraud.
Award Ceremonies and Events
BEST BANKS AWARDS CEREMONY 2014
Global Finance held its 18th Annual Best Banks Awards ceremony in Washington in October—during the Annual IMF/World Bank conference. Honorees from around the world were present to accept their awards.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
CEE: STRUCTURAL REFORMS NEEDED
<strong>Central & Eastern Europe | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br />
Central and Eastern Europe has come a long way in the past 25 years, but the region must overcome some significant obstacles in 2015—particularly as Russia’s conflict with Ukraine continues.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CHANGING ECONOMIC CLIMATE OF EMERGING MARKETS
<strong>Seeking A New Paradigm | Emerging Markets Growth</strong><br />
To ascertain whether emerging markets is an obsolete term, we must first understand what it means.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CHINA EASES INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS
<strong>China | Milestones</strong><br />
China will allow foreign firms to increase their ownership stakes in encouraged sectors and enter into previously protected industries, according to investment guidelines drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Banking
ECB STRESS TESTS FAIL THE CREDIBILITY TEST
<strong>European Banking | Trends</strong><br />
The degree to which the recent stress tests of big European banks by EU regulators lack credibility is becoming clear.<br />
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EDITOR’S LETTER: REDEFINING EMERGING MARKETS
For many years <strong>Global Finance </strong>has regularly covered emerging markets and frontier markets. This annual issue of the magazine, which is focused on the EM, goes a bit further. We analyze these markets regionally, but we also question the prevalent definition of emerging markets.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET FACES CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAKE OF FIXING SCANDAL
<strong>Foreign Exchange | Capital Markets</strong><br />
How to take the gaming instinct out of foreign exchange traders has become the order of the day, following last month’s imposition of $4.3 billion in fines on six global banks for manipulating currency benchmarks.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
HUNGARY: PROTESTS FORCE PM TO SHELVE INTERNET TAX
<strong>Hungary | Milestones</strong><br />
Hungary has witnessed the biggest street protests since the current right-wing government came to power in 2010, against the government’s plans to tax Internet traffic, the world’s first such levy.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
IMPROVING ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY
<strong>Asia-Pacific | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br />
Structural changes in emerging Asia’s manufacturing-for-export markets are erasing the low-cost advantage.