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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Colombia Reaps Big Rewards From Free-Trade Agreements

MILESTONES: COLOMBIA By Dan Keeler Three months after its free-trade agreement with the United States went into effect, Colombia is already reaping the benefits, in terms of investment, export growth and job creation. González, Proexport Colombia: Colombia's ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover: Searching for Global Demand

DEMAND WHERE WILL IT COME FROM? By Laurence Neville The worldwide call for public, private and corporate debt reduction raises the question of where spending and demand will come from going forward. Particularly now, as emerging markets stars—such ...

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...

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 ...