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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 ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Insurance & Risk Management

BEHIND EVERY CLOUD... By Paula Green Financial scandals, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks and tsunamis generated some important lessons for the worlds of insurance and risk management. The challenge now is coming to grips with a world where vulnerabilities are expanding. ...

Banking

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Macroeconomics

THE HUMAN FACTOR IN ECONOMIC THEORY By Justin Keay Traditional economic theory has been challenged by recent market events in global financial markets, and that challenge has given rise to a new generation of economic soothsayers who are looking ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Trade Finance

SEXY AND SOPHISTICATED By Anita Hawser Oiling the wheels of global trade has never been more important, particularly as regulation and capital constraints challenge banks' commitment to the business. Collaborative B2B platforms and investors are poised to play ...

Award Winners

The Winners’ Circle, Top Winners in 25 Years of Awards: Best Banks

THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT By Kathryn Tully For its anniversary issue, Global Finance crunched the numbers to come up with the institutions that have won our World's Best Bank awards most often over the past 16 years. Presenting The ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Top 25 Lists: 25 Events That Rocked The World

REVOLUTION By Laurence Neville The scale of the crisis that has engulfed much of the world since 2008, which—like a virus—has mutated from a financial sector crisis to an economic crisis to a sovereign debt crisis, is so great ...

Banking

Top 25 Lists: 25 Ideas That Changed The World

EVOLUTION By Laurence Neville Perhaps the defining characteristic of 2012—in contrast to 1987 when Global Finance launched—is the interconnectedness of the world. Globalization spreads ideas and connects markets Those in the US now have more in common with ...

Banking

Top 25 Lists: 25 Most Influential Business & Finance Books Over 25 Years

Transformation By Justin Keay How things change. A list of the best business, economics and finance books compiled pre-crisis would probably have focused on up-and-coming Internet companies, how to make a fortune on the stock exchange, how to invest ...