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Features: Focus: Global Custody

Settling Up Europe’s exchanges are working hard to reduce the complexity of clearing and settlement across the region. By Anita Hawser Any custodian doing business inEurope is used to dealing with “spaghetti”—not the variety of Italian ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: Regional Report: Southern Africa

In From The Cold Global businesses and investors are taking more interest in sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the world’s most neglected emerging markets. By Antonio Guerrero Sub-Saharan Africa has long been considered to be on ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Sector Report: Treasury & Cash Management—China

Chinese Cash Management Comes of Age As inbound investment into China and outbound investment by Chinese companies into regional and global markets have increased, so too have the cash management needs and wants of domestic companies and foreign multinationals in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Spotlight: Equity Derivatives

BACK FROM THE BRINK The revival of interest in equity derivatives reflects a broader return of risk appetite among corporations and investors. By Laurence Neville The recovery in sentiment in most markets during 2009 was dramatic, and ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Company to Watch: Dongfeng Motor/China

Dongfeng Is Plugged Into China’s Electric Car Market By Gordon Platt Dongfeng Motor, one of China’s largest automobile manufacturers, has been a leader in designing hybrid electric vehicles, including a city bus that delivers 30% better fuel ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: DR News

Companies Based In India Increase DR Offerings By Gordon Platt Equity issues by India-based companies using depositary receipts rose from $100 million in 2008 to $3.4 billion last year. The rush of DR issues is likely to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: News

Risk Gets Rewarded, But Not Too Much Risk By Gordon Platt Emerging market investors were rewarded last year with a record 73% return, as measured by the MSCI EM Index, versus a 45% rise in the Nasdaq ...

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A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description Inside markets, innovation, and risk Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises...

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After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description American corporations have to beg for capital from the cash-rich Sovereign Wealth Funds in the...

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All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international...

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Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis...

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Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description Listen to a short interview with Rawi Abdelal Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron &...