News
China Takes The FDI Title
China surges past the U.S. as the top destination for foreign direct investment.
News
Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.
Click Here
News
London Tradings Post-Brexit Fall
London’s loss of the crown as Europe’s top trading hub is only the latest in a year-long string of bad news for the UK.
News
Rio Tinto Vows Cleanup
The fallout from the Juukan Gorge scandal has put executives at other mining companies on alert.
News
Super Mario Takes A Bow
Former European Central Bank President MarioDraghi becomes Prime Minister of Italy.
News
Unicredits New Ceo Is A Dealmaker
Andrea Orcel’s first major decision is likely to be the takeover of one of the country’s most troubled banks, state-owned Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
WTO’s Consensus Builder
The World Trade Organization gets its first woman and first African leader.
News
Executive Insights: Asia’s Culture Clout
Stuart Wood, a founding partner of design agency Missouri Creative in London, points to Asia’s rising cultural influence—from K-pop to TikTok—as a soft yet powerful facet of its 21st century leadership.
News
Japan: New Beginnings
Tokyo is reviving ambitions to be Asia’s top global financial hub. Many factors, including the country’s fully diversified economy and high level of household savings, favor the effort. But will it work this time around?
News
Leadership Insights: Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike
Governor Yuriko Koike discusses plans, progress and potential hurdles in Tokyo’s efforts to reclaim the mantle of a top world financial center for the 21st century.
News
The Asian Century
With a major new trade deal, favorable demographics and relative success managing the pandemic, Asia is fast assuming global leadership. Has the “Asian Century” just begun?
News
A New Brand Of Shareholder Activism At Omnicom
Powerful investors are known for tackling gender wage gaps or unconscious bias, but hate speech is new.
News
Brussels, Beijing Ink Trade Deal
Strongly advocated by Germany, the agreement drew criticism from other European Union member states concerned with issues ranging from Beijing’s human rights record to cybersecurity and technology transfer.