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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2013: Going Global And Mobile With Payments

GOING GLOBAL AND MOBILE By Karen Kroll Companies are increasingly using e-payments and looking at mobile channels. But moving money electronically cross-border can still be an issue. The ways in which organizations are paying their suppliers and business ...

Banking

SIBOS 2013: Middle East Transaction Banking: Gaining Market Share

STEALING THE SHOW By Gordon Platt Middle East banks say they are catching up to the global transaction banks, and in some cases winning greater market share by delivering solutions that meet the specific needs of companies doing business ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

One Minute With – Karen Elliot House

Global Finance sits down with Karen Elliott House, pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Dow Jones & Co vet, and author of On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - And Future. Ms House joined GF in its New York offices for our monthly Salon series, which appeared in the March 2013 issue.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Global Equity Index % Change, 2003-2012

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Equity Indices measure the US dollar price change in the stock markets covered by the S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) and the S&P Frontier Broad Market Index (BMI). The Global BMI consists of ...

Award Winners

Awards: Best Islamic Banks 2013

A DEFINING MOMENT By Anita Hawser Global Finance presents the winners of its awards for the World’s Best Islamic Financial Insititutions 2013. With Islamic banking assets predicted to pass the $1.1 trillion mark in 2012 and Islamic ...

Banking

Country Report: Egypt

WAITING FOR THE RENAISSANCE By Gordon Platt Egypt’s elections promised much in terms of building a modern and democratic state. But the realities of governing for the Muslim Brotherhood are proving more difficult than initially thought—and some economic ...

Banking

Cover: New Role For Central Banks?

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES By Udayan Gupta The world’s central banks are on a desperate mission to stave off deflation. But even if their short-term fixes work, the long-term outcomes may have unplanned results. Central banks are in an ...

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Quantitative Might

We live in a world of quantitative easing and short-term interest rates close to zero; a world where central banks have recently taken on a new role, becoming the most active institutional investors in the world...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Roundup: Africa

NEW OIL REFINERY TO NEARLY DOUBLE NIGERIA’S OUTPUT By Antonio Guerrero Aliko Dangote, head of the Dangote Group and ranked as Africa’s wealthiest man, will invest up to $8 billion to build a new oil refinery complex in his ...

Banking

Emerging Markets Roundup: India

STRONG RESPONSE TO NEW BANKING LICENSES By Aaron Chaze As of early May nearly 100 Indian corporate entities have expressed interest in the Reserve Bank of India’s invitation for applications for new bank licenses. Photo Credits: RUPA / ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity: Brazil Leads Latin American IPO Surge

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Brazilian companies are rushing to go public despite a double-digit decline in...

Banking

Frontier Markets Focus: Estonia

ODD MAN OUT By Dan Keeler One of the few frontier markets to adopt the euro, Estonia has proved to be a beacon of hope in a region of uncertainty. Estonia is on a healthy trajectory. Economic ...