Economics, Policy & Regulation
Editor’s Letter: Fundamentals And Contagion
The new year started with unusually negative intensity and uncertainty in the financial markets and the global economy.
Editor’s Letter
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s Letter: Two Baskets, One Currency
Our cover story this month focuses on a little-known fact: Global trade growth has slowed in recent years, and intraregional trade, especially in Asia, is becoming more prominent.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Not All Alike
In our annual special issue on emerging markets, we take a macro and regional view of the new realities (yes, more than one) that have developed over the past year. There are quite a few surprises.
Banking
Status Symbols For Safety
This issue of the magazine focuses once again on Global Finance's ranking of the Safest Banks. Not just the safest banks in the world, in the emerging markets, or the safest commercial banks, but also in each of more than 100 countries.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Making The Grade
After a summer of heavy turbulence in global financial markets, the new season starts with the seemingly endless story of when the Federal Reserve Board will raise interest rates. Although the Fed put off the move in September, the US central bank will up rates eventually, most likely at its next meeting in December. The hike will undoubtedly force some countries to shift monetary policies.
Banking
A Devaluation In China—And More Turbulence
The recent devaluation of the renminbi by Chinese authorities is yet more proof that currency markets do not go on vacation in August.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Diversification And Data
At the beginning of the summer, credit insurance company Coface issued its monthly list of upgrades and downgrades of country risk.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Renminbi | The Goal Of Convertibility
The European Union is still debating the nature of its common currency, the position of non-eurozone EU members like the UK, and the future of stressed eurozone countries like Greece. But the situation in other parts of the world is quite different.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
COMPLIANCE: COSTLY AND GLOBAL
By deciding to devote our cover story to compliance this month we focus on a key element in the DNA of this magazine: Managing compliance is increasingly a global issue for corporates and financial institutions.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
STRONG GREENBACK, GLOBAL IMPACT
Dear Reader:
The strength of the US dollar is keeping many executives busy these days both in the corporate and the financial world.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EDITOR’S LETTER: GOOD AND BAD DEFLATION
Dear Reader
Deflation is one of the worst fears of central bankers and economists worldwide, but the risk it engenders isn’t always clearly defined.
Editor's Letter
EDITOR’S LETTER: STAGNATION AND SINGLE-ENGINE GROWTH
This may be the Year of the Goat in the Chinese calendar, but so far 2015 looks more like the year of major economic surprises.