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Banks under fire

Tomorrow’s Battleground For Banks Banks and regulators worldwide are starting the new decade at loggerheads, but signs are slowly beginning to emerge that point to the future shape of regulation. By Nick Kochan Banks are on the ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Looking ahead: shifting sands

Shifting Sands Global Finance takes a long, hard look at the prospects for the coming decade. By Dan Keeler The first decade of the 21st century began with the spectacular and painful collapse of the dot-com bubble ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Dollars decline

The Dollar’s Decline A weak dollar may be beneficial to the US in the short term, but it is undermining the dollar’s long-term status as the de facto global currency. By Laurence Neville One of the rocks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The new world powers

THE NEW WORLD POWERS The coming decade will witness a fundamental rebalancing of economic power, setting the stage for this to become the Asian Century. By Harold L. Sirkin It is clear to almost everyone that ...

News

Cover Story: A Wide Open World

A WIDE OPEN WORLD As new technologies help individuals gain greater access to information and data, how they use it will change the corporate and financial worlds forever. To stay ahead of the pack, firms must change the way ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Building Boom

Building Boom A much needed explosion in infrastructure spending is already under way in both developed and emerging markets. By Gordon Platt The world’s infrastructure will change dramatically in the decade ahead as a result of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Credit Where It’s Due

Credit Where It’s Due As governments around the world contemplate reeling in the financial lifelines that helped them prevent a global systemic meltdown, the prospects for credit growth in the coming decade are still unclear. By Antonio Guerrero ...

Banking

Cover Story: When Two World’s Collide

ISLAMIC FINANCING Islamic finance is set to become one of the defining phenomena of the coming decade. Some are concerned, though, that the surge of growth may compromise the strict principles on which it is founded. By ...

News

Newsmakers: Anti-Corruption Drive Goes Away

Indonesia By Thomas Clouse Yudhoyono: Two key aides fall under suspicion Tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets in cities across Indonesia on December 9 to urge the government to do more to fight corruption. The ...

Banking

Newsmakers: Copenhagen Conference Reveals Deep Rifts Over Climate Change

Europe/Global By Anita Hawser Trouble ahead: Delegates failed to secure a binding treaty in Copenhagen In mid-December political leaders, environmental scientists, NGOs and lobbyists converged on Copenhagen to try to hammer out a global agreement on climate change. ...

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Newsmakers: Crisis Takes Toll On Mexico’s Ratings

Mexico By Antonio Guerrero Calderón: Reform agenda is in danger of stalling Analysts had for months warned of an impending Mexico downgrade. When it finally came, it did so in the form of a one-two punch. In November ...

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Newsmakers: EU Takes Gloomy View On Growth

Europe By Justin Keay Torres: Green and digital technologies may fill growth gap With the most serious global recession since the 1930s slowly coming to an end, European policymakers are now focusing on the post-crisis landscape. The view ...