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Editor’s Letter: Settling Up

In this month's cover story we find that the alarming specter of sovereign risk has the potential to drive the global economy back into recession and spawn a new frenzy of risk aversion among investors...

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Looking To The Long Term

After many months of prevarication, ferocious negotiation and somewhat disappointing horse trading, the shape of the new regulatory environments in the US, Europe and the UK is becoming clear...

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Payback Time

Almost three years after the global financial crisis began, the repercussions rumble on...

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Sustainable Advantage

It is seven years since we last featured corporate social responsibility as our cover story, and the changes that have taken place in the meantime are simply staggering...

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Editor’s Letter: Risky Business

Corporate finance executives could be forgiven for being somewhat confused at present...

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Editor’s Letter: Cause And Effect

Dear Reader April 2010 | Vol. 24 No.4 As Global Finance was going to press, the prime minister of Greece,...

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Editor’s Letter: Caging The Beast

Increasingly, among commentators on the financial services industry, there is a perception of bankers and banks as hungry carnivores, pouncing on every opportunity to take profits and showing no remorse when faced with a weaker prey...

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Editor’s Letter: Welcome To The Future

One year ago, as we looked ahead to 2009, the financial world was a bleak place. In the depths of the credit crunch, one of the most crucial elements of global business—trust—had all but evaporated...

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Editor’s Letter: New Kids On The Block

As we bid farewell to the first decade of the 21st century, we find ourselves poised on the brink of a remarkable new reality...

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Editor’s Letter : Not So Fast!

As Global Finance was going to press, details were emerging of JPMorgan Chases proposed $58 billion takeover of Bank One, which would be the biggest bank merger in the US in more than five years...

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Editor’s Letter : Brave New World

In this issue we bring together a number of disparate stories from around the world, including Brazil, Russia, the United States and Western Europe...

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Editor’s Letter : Donaldson’s SEC: No Bark, No Bite

Much has been said about the failure of the Securities and Exchange Commissionand its chairman William Donaldson in particularto effectively regulate the US financial services industry...