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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Derivatives

TOOLS FOR MANAGING RISK, OR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? By Gordon Platt As companies looked to hedge their risks, a new asset class, derivatives, was born in the 1980s. But over the years a number of substantial losses ...

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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 ...

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Equity & Debt Capital Markets

STORMY WEATHER By Gordon Platt When volume 1, number 1 of Global Finance arrived at the airport in London on October 15, 1987, it could not immediately be offloaded. The precious cargo was needed as ballast in the airplane ...

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Foreign Exchange

CURRENCY CRISES AND CURRENCY WARS By Gordon Platt FX has withstood many crises, including speculative attacks on the British pound, the Mexican peso crisis, the Thai baht crisis and, more recently, a euro under strain and a potential threat ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Mergers & Acquisitions

TRADING SIZE FOR VALUE By Gordon Platt Some of the biggest mergers in recent history—AOL and Time Warner, Vodafone and Mannesmann—show that such marriages aren't always made in heaven. Dealmakers are now staring down a much smaller deal ...