Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High Cost Of Failure For Shells Arctic Oil Quest
Big oil companies waited for years to see if anyone could successfully tap into Arctic oil reserves.
News
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
India And Taiwan, Cut Rates Tracking The Fed
An analytical exercise that was moderately popular before the financial crisis has become a mandatory task in the post-crisis years.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Is Fiat A Failed Wooer This Time Around?
Italy: Sergio Marchionne, the 63-year-old CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), is celebrated as the mastermind of one of the few successful mergers in the industry’s history, the marriage of Fiat and Chrysler.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Modi’s India Passes US & China In FDI
India seems to be on course with economic reforms under the leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi, achieving a significant landmark as it moved ahead of the US and China in the foreign direct investment (FDI) sweepstakes.
News
President Coelho Keeps Post But Instability Looms
Portugal: At the beginning of October, Portugal’s Pedro Passos Coelho became the first eurozone prime minister to survive a bailout program and win reelection.
Banking
Staying Safe With The Award Winners
Global Finance interviews senior executives from some of the banks featured in this year’s World’s Safest Banks rankings.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
TPP Achieved, Passage In Congress Is Next Step
USA: After years of talks, 12 Pacific Rim nations, from Vietnam to Peru to the United States, reached an agreement in early October to create a vast, new trade bloc called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Vietnam Shrugs Off Global Woes
Vietnam is emerging as one of the few bright spots among Southeast Asian economies buffeted by the slowdown in regional and global trade.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
A Bridge Too Far? New AIIB Head In Tough Spot
Newsmakers | China
At the beginning of September, the fledgling Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank took an important step forward with the appointment of its first president.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
At the UN Global Compact, Kingo Must Sustain Gains
Newsmakers | United Nations
When the United Nations Global Compact was launched 15 years ago at the New York Stock Exchange, Lise Kingo was entrenched on the corporate responsibility frontline in Europe.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Brazil and Beyond
Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, visited Global Finance on September 10, just as Standard & Poor’s cut Brazil’s public debt to junk level. We asked him about the outlook for that country and other emerging markets.
Banking
Central Banker Report Cards 2015
Global Finance’s annual evaluation of the work of the world’s central bankers found some stellar performances, and some dismal ones. The toughest challenge for many: propping up falling prices.