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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

NO-SHOW AT IMF By Thomas Clouse China’s once-a-decade leadership transition will begin on November 8 at the Communist Party’s 18th Congress. Chinese banks skipped the World Bank/IMF meetings in Tokyo last month amid a territorial dispute with Japan, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: The Renminbi As A Reserve Currency

THE RENMINBI GOES GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Pressure from BRIC countries for a new international reserve currency to replace the dollar is growing. China, the world’s leading trading nation, would like to reap some of the benefits ...

Award Winners

STARS OF CHINA 2012

Global Finance names the Stars of China 2012 NEW YORK,September 24, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global Finance has announced its...

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Stars of China 2012: Bank Winners

By Thomas Clouse BANKS WINNERS BEST CITY COMMERCIAL Bank of Nanjing China's more than 140 city commercial banks are facing increasing competition from each other as well as their bigger national counterparts and smaller rural finance neighbors. Against this competitive ...

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Stars of China 2012: Corporate Winners

By Thomas Clouse CORPORATE WINNERS AUTOMOBILES Great Wall Motors Competition is fierce in China's automotive industry, and slowing sales growth this year has added even more pressure to the country's automotive producers. Great Wall has responded to that pressure with ...

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Awards: World’s Biggest Banks 2012

ANNUAL SURVEY: The Big Get Bigger By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance presents the World’s Biggest Banks. Total assets are once again growing. The world’s 50 biggest banks notched up assets of $65,956 billion at the end of ...

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Awards: World’s Safest Banks 2012

ANNUAL SURVEY: DOWN, BUT NOT OUT By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance presents it annual ranking of The World’s Safest Banks. European banks still account for 20 of the World’s Safest 50 Banks, but Europe’s hold on the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Banker Arrests Shake Investor Confidence

MILESTONES: VIETNAM By Thomas Clouse Vietnam’s stock markets tumbled in August following the arrests of two of the country’s top bankers, Nguyen Duc Kien and Ly Xuan Hai. Asia Commercial Bank’s Kien arrested for “illegal business activity” Photo ...

Banking

Central Banker Report Cards 2012

GUNNING FOR GROWTH By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser Global Finance presents its annual report on the performance of the world’s central bank governors. Central banks of most of the major global economies are pulling ...

Banking

Central Banker Report Cards 2012: Asia-Pacific

By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser ASIA-PACIFIC AUSTRALIA Glenn Stevens Grade: A Stevens has his hands full managing an economy with booming mining and financial sectors and weakness elsewhere. So far, he has managed to keep the overall ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Santander Mexico IPO Sets Record

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS By Gordon Platt Santander, the eurozone’s biggest bank by market value, said it would issue up to $4.3 billion of shares in an initial public offering of up to 24.9% of its ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Strong Showing For Tech, EM Deals

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Despite a decline in global mergers and acquisitions valuations in the first half of 2012, a recent uptick in technology and Asia-Pacific deal values provides some hope for a revival ...