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Words Of Wisdom: Zhang Jianguo, China Construction Bank

A Time Of Profound Change By Thomas Clouse Zhang Jianguo is president and chief executive of China Construction Bank (CCB) . Global Finance: How will China´s financial system change as interest rates liberalize, capital markets develop, and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Alfa Group Oligarch Leaves TNK-BP Chair

NEWSMAKERS: RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan Mikhail Fridman has overcome a lot of hurdles since his humble beginnings as a window-cleaning entrepreneur in Russia, just as the Soviet Union was unraveling. Fridman faces his most difficult maneuver yet ...

Award Winners

Awards: Supply Chain Finance 2012

BUILDING BLOCKS By Anita Hawser and Paula Green The winners of this year's awards come from a wide array of bank and nonbank backgrounds. They offer unique financing solutions and are helping buyers and suppliers connect as ...

Award Winners

Awards: World’s Best Subcustodians 2012

NEW HORIZONS By Gordon Platt With every new regulation that hits global trust and custody banks, a new service is born for subcustodians. Keeping up is expensive and challenging, but nonetheless it is a good time to be ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Country Report: Nigeria

TIME FOR CHANGE By Antonio Guerrero Nigeria holds great promise with its massive oil reserves, but endemic corruption, unfettered militant attacks on pipelines and lack of regulatory clarity could halt progress in its tracks. When the Nigerian ...

Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter: Summer Revival?

The summer has been alive with global central bank activityfrom lower interest rates to new and more creative monetary measures...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Emerging Markets Roundup: Africa

FEELING THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC CONTAGION By Antonio Guerrero The Africa Finance Corp, a multilateral finance institution based in Nigeria, says it has a pipeline of sub-Saharan investment projects worth $3 billion over the next year. The AFC ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: Brazil

TIME-OUT FOR BRAZIL'S GROWTH BOOM By Antonio Guerrero Brazil's growth explosion could be ending. The Brazilian central bank in June cut the official growth target from 3.5% to 2.5% for 2012, after first-quarter GDP expansion was a meager ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

CHINESE EXPORTS DEFY EXPECTATIONS By Thomas Clouse China has given its banks more freedom to determine their own interest rates by declaring in June that banks could offer lenders rates as low as 80% of the official rate ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Emerging Markets Roundup: India

GOVERNMENT TO SELL OFF STAKES, REDUCE DEFICIT By Aaron Chaze The administration announced renewed efforts to sell stakes in government-run companies in order to reduce the fiscal deficit. It plans to raise INR300 billion ($5.4 billion) by ...

Banking

Emerging Markets Roundup: Middle East

KUWAIT ORDERED TO PAY DOW CHEMICAL $2.16 BILLION By Gordon Platt Kuwait's state-run chemical company must pay the US's Dow Chemical $2.16 billion for wrongfully canceling a planned joint venture in December 2008, as the global economy was ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: Russia

PRIVATIZATION PLAN COULD STUMBLE BEFORE LEAVING THE GATE By Kim Iskyan In early June, Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, agreed to buy DenizBank of Turkey from French-Belgian lender Dexia, for $3.5 billion. The deal marked Sberbank's second-largest transaction in recent ...