Features Archives

Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.

Click Here

Features

Treasury In An Integrated World

Corporate Forum | Treasury In An Integrated World SWIFT’s Sibos conference is certainly the place where banks and financial services firms showcase their solutions and meet clients—both during the conference and at the trade show. And in the Corporate Forum, one of the conference streams which will take place on October 1 and 2, the focus is even more precise.

Features

Treasury & Cash Management 2014

Global Finance presents the fifth annual Technology & Treasury Management Supplement and eBook — a powerful resource that will explore the ways that innovative companies, banks and individuals are driving progress and change in the Treasury Management arena.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CHINA’S ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE ENSNARES M&A DEALS

CAPITAL MARKETS FOCUS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Companies around the world are stepping up their due diligence on mergers and acquisitions involving Chinese counterparties, after several major deals have been called into question as a result of Peking’s widening corruption probe.

Banking

COULD PANAMA BE A GLOBAL MONETARY POLICY MODEL?

TRENDS | SNAPSHOT: PANAMA

Banking

ECUADOR TO LAUNCH ITS OWN “BITCOIN,” BANS RIVALS

TRENDS | DIGITAL CURRENCIES Ecuador is gearing up for the launch of a new digital currency that will go into use as early as October alongside the US dollar, the country’s official tender.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

INSURERS OFFER LONGEVITY HEDGES TO DE-RISK PLANS

MANAGEMENT | PENSIONS As people live longer, many companies are discovering that they have to pay pension benefits to retirees for longer than they had expected. Insurance companies are stepping in with new products that can help take this “longevity risk” out of corporate defined-benefit pension plans.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A’S BIG YEAR IS LITTERED WITH BROKEN DEALS

CAPITAL MARKETS FOCUS |MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Mergers and acquisitions in 2014 are being announced at the fastest pace since the financial crisis of 2008–2009, but broken deals are also setting records for the same period.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MOROCCO: STABLE, AND WELL-SITUATED

FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT | MOROCCO Morocco boasts solid outward FDI, geopolitical stability and proximity to key markets, but corruption is commonplace.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

RECOVERY IS UNDER WAY IN CEE

REGIONAL REPORT | CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE Central European countries are starting to recover, with growth accelerating in most markets. But the region’s banks still have some trials to overcome.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SAUDI EXCHANGE OPENING WILL INCREASE RIYADH’S IMPORTANCE

CAPITAL MARKETS | MIDDLE EAST EQUITY Riyadh, the Saudi capital, has already built a new financial district, named after King Abdullah, but its 42 new skyscrapers stand largely empty. That could change following the decision by the government in July to allow foreign financial institutions to invest directly in listed shares, starting in the first half of 2015.

Banking

SQUARE ONE FOR BANKS’ LIVING WILLS

TRENDS | US BANKING

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

WALGREENS DUMPS INVERSION AS OBAMA BERATES “DESERTERS”

MANAGEMENT | TAX PLANNING Gregory Wasson, president and CEO of Walgreen, says the company “concluded it was not in the best interest of shareholders to attempt to re-domicile outside the US” to cut its tax bill.