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Features : Roundtable: Supply Chain Financing

SUPPLYING SOLUTIONS SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE At a recent roundtable in London, Global Finance brought together some of the pioneers in the rapidly growing supply chain finance business to discuss the growth of their industry and the impact of the credit ...

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Milestones : Argentina Seeks End To Default Saga

ARGENTINA Seeing off the debt: Kirchner hopes investors will accept deal. In a major policy reversal, the Argentine government is reaching out to holdouts from its $100 billion debt workout in which bondholders received a 70% ...

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Milestones : Gdp Growth Surprises—on Low Side

CHINA Keeping busy: China's policymakers are moving fast to maintain domestic economic activity as global growth ebbs. Following years of double-digit growth in its gross domestic product, China’s economic growth came in at a weaker-than-expected 9% in the ...

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Milestones : Sovereign Funds Eye Santiago Principles

GLOBAL Place of principles: Santiago, Chile's capital, where the funds agreed to a series of standards. The International Working Group (IWG) of 26 member countries of the International Monetary Fund last month released a statement of Generally ...

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Newsmakers : British Premier Leads Call For New Financial Order

UNITED KINGDOM Brown: Championing a coordinated global structure for the financial services industry. Prime minister Gordon Brown has been ridiculed in the British press for calling for a new Bretton Woods summit. He has been accused of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Emerging Markets Face Savage Reversal Of Funds Flows

GLOBAL Capon: Asia's funds are drying up fast. The credit crunch has shattered a lot of illusions about the soundness of the global financial system, and another theory that has been challenged is that of “decoupling,” ...

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Newsmakers : Fed Chairman Backs Second Stimulus Plan

UNITED STATES Bernanke: Running out of weapons in the battle against economic turmoil. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke urged Congress last month to pass a second economic stimulus plan, saying that the US economy was likely ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers : Gf Survey Finds Companies Crimping Credit

GLOBAL Crunching the numbers: Businesses are preparing themselves for difficult times ahead. Much of the coverage on the credit crunch has focused on the impact it is having on banks and capital markets, but in a ...

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Editor’s Letter: Opportunity knocks

If this years crisis has shown us anything, it is that the current model of the global financial system is broken...

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Milestones : Western Ally In Caspian Wins Kudos

AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijan's pro-business president, Ilham Aliyev. The regulatory reform movement that has been thriving in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years is spreading eastward into Central Asia, with Azerbaijan taking the title of the world’s ...

Banking

Newsmakers : Global Leaders Paint Bleak Picture

AUSTRIA Citi's Rhodes: Current crisis is the US' biggest challenge in recent history. With Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch and Lehman’s filing for bankruptcy, the global credit crunch is clearly far from over. In fact, a ...

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Newsmakers : Medvedev Tries To Calm Russia Bears

RUSSIA Medvedev: Seemingly helpless in the face of a stock market rout. Can Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev save the country’s financial markets? In the second week of September he declared that it was “within ...