Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s Letter: The Demand Dilemma
In the Western world, September is synonymous with the beginning of the school year, and represents the resumption of full economic activity after summer vacation...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
M&A: China Seeks Global Energy Assets
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, returned from his second official trip to China in February and announced that Beijing would lend two giant pandas, Er Shun and Ji Li, ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Poland Shines In CEE
STAR GAZING By Vanessa Drucker Among Central and Eastern European countries, Poland’s economic performance clearly stands out. Unlike other countries it has the luxury of economic growth, and it boasts a large domestic market that can pick up ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Polls And Stats: European Banking Crisis: Impact On Emerging Markets Economies
European Banking Crisis: Impact On Emerging Markets Economies Emerging markets economies’ outstanding debt held by EU banks as a % of their GDP. You will need javascript to view this feature. “EM countries that rely heavily on European banks to ...
Country Report
Taiwan Seeks New Growth Opportunities
THE TIES THAT BIND By Arthur Clennam Economic forces are subtly improving prospects for Taiwanese companies seeking new markets in China. An ancient folk story from Taiwan goes something like this: A frog lives for years in ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Veteran Indian Finance Minister Back In The Finance Seat
NEWSMAKERS: INDIA By Luca Ventura Often labeled arrogant and brusque, India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, is not the most popular politician within his own Congress Party and not much in the public eye. Chidambaram's new ministerial appointment ...
Banking
Global Finance Advertisers 1987: Where Are They Now?
THE SANDS OF TIME By Valentina Pasquali A look at how the fates have dealt with those firms that advertised in the October 1987 inaugural issue of Global Finance. AT&T was bought by SBC Communications Are your overseas ...
Banking
Introduction: A Quarter-Century Of Change
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE... By Laurence Neville There is a famous quote by British novelist LP Hartley that goes, "The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there." If this is so, then 1987—when Global Finance was launched—is ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Compliance & Regulation
WHO'S REGULATING THE REGULATORS? By Justin Keay Regulation tends to be reactionary: Regulators get in on the game after events have already happened. The jury is still out on the effectiveness of a lot of the regulation introduced in the ...
Banking
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Emerging Markets
MECHANISMS OF GROWTH By Antonio Guerrero Twenty-five years ago, Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill was still more than a decade away from coining the acronym BRIC to identify the high-growth markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China—an event which signaled ...
Banking
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Global Banking
CHANGE IS IN THE AIR By Jonathan Gregson The emergence of universal banks fueled the trend toward globalization over the past 25 years, but the recent crises have been their undoing. In the past 25 years major banks ...
Banking
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Global Investing
UNDERMINING THE CULT OF EQUITY By Jonathan Gregson As alternative investments become mainstream and returns diminish, the traditional bias toward equity investment is being challenged like never before. Even before globalization became a major theme, big investors had ...