Banking
RUPEE INTERNATIONALIZATION: SAUGATA BHATTACHARYA, AXIS BANK
<strong>Q&A | Capital Markets</strong><br />
Saugata Bhattacharya is the senior vice president and chief economist at Axis Bank in India.
Asia Pacific
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
WILL KURODA SURVIVE JAPAN’S SNAP ELECTION?
<strong>Japan | Newsmakers</strong><br />
Just weeks after Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, surprised the world with a bold plan to inflate Japanese assets and weaken the Japanese yen by buying 80 trillion yen ($680 billion) in Japanese bonds, exchange-traded funds and real estate investment trusts, prime minister Shinz Abe upstaged him by calling a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule.
Features
Recasting India: Entrepreneurship In The World’s Largest Democracy
Book Review<br />
Sengupta’s Recasting India envisions India’s real growth drivers as the millions of small entrepreneurs in the country and the "extraordinary enterprise of ordinary people.”
Award Winners
CHINA: A NEW ECONOMY IN THE MAKING
Annual Survey | Stars Of China<br />
Something’s changed this year. Midmarket innovators are taking the lead, Internet companies are now world-beaters, and banks are staking their ground in a whole new way.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
A LONG WAY OFF – RISE OF THE RENMINBI
FX Supplement 2014 | Renminbi Expansion<br />
Despite media hype, the renminbi still has some way to go before challenging the dollar as a major currency for international trade.
Award Winners
CHINA: BANKS FORCED TO INNOVATE IN FAST-CHANGING MARKET
Annual Survey | Stars Of China<br />
Nothing has characterized the recent pressure on traditional banking in China more than the challenge posed by Internet companies to the Big Four Chinese Banks
Banking
FOREIGN BANKS SECURE FOOTHOLD IN MYANMAR
Milestones | Myanmar<br />
After five decades of economic isolation, on October 1, Myanmar took its first big step into the global financial system, granting nine foreign lenders preliminary approval to operate in the country.
Banking
INDIA: MILLIONS ACCESS BASIC FINANCIAL SERVICES
Milestones | India<br />
In partnership with more than 50 state-run, cooperative and private banks, India’s National Democratic Alliance government has launched the world’s largest financial inclusion project to bring 75 million households into the banking fold by the end of January 2015.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
INTERVIEW: IS THE ASIAN GROWTH MIRACLE OVER?
Global Salon<br />
Global Finance sat down with John Jullens, partner of consulting firm Strategy&, to discuss the sustainability of growth in Asian economies.
Awards
INTERVIEWS WITH THE AWARD WINNERS
View From The Top<br />
Global Finance speaks to leading executives at the World’s Safest Banks.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
MYANMAR’S FIRST CROSS-BORDER, NONRECOURSE PROJECT FINANCING
Capital Markets | Myanmar<br />
The frontier market with a population of 60 million is seeking to rejoin the global economy following nearly 50 years of isolation under military rule.<br />
Awards
SAFETY FIRST – SAFEST BANKS IN CHINA
Stars Of China | Safest Banks In China<br />
Chinese banks display a wide variety of strength and size.