Country Report
Turkish Banks: A Year Of Normalization
Turkey's banks have had a good run but rising debts remain a worry.
Western Europe
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Award Winners
World’s Best Bank Awards 2018: Western Europe
Bold strategies blaze a trail:From embracing new technologies to taking steps to minimize regulatory burdens, northern and western banks find ways to make their own destinies.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
WPP Chairman May Not Last
WPP chairman Martin Sorrell’s successorRoberto Quarta inherits a company in crisis in a troubled industry.
News
Brexit Breakthrough Eases Business Uncertainty
Thanks to a new agreement, businesses can assume that the UK will be fully out of the EU by January 2021. The UK will remain in the single market and customs union until the end of 2020.
News
Facebook Crisis Calls For New Rules
Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress has only increased public calls for more oversight of social media and how it uses customer data.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
German Green Energy Giants Join Forces In Novel Merger
EON and RWE swap assets to become a market leader.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Swiss To Vote On Reclaiming Fiat Power
As many countries move to become cashless societies, Switzerland will vote on whether their central bank should be the only institution capable of creating money.
Awards
Global Finance Announces The Best Banks In Western Europe 2018
A full report on the selections will appear in the May issue of Global Finance, with winners chosen in nearly 150 countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and Western Europe. The ...
Award Winners
Western Europe: Treasurers Prep For Open Banking
Vendors guide corporate clients throughincreasingly frictionless—though initially disorienting—new platforms.
News
New German Finance Minister Might End Euro-Austerity
Olaf Scholz’s spending policies and his Social Democratic Party'scriticism of Angela Merkel's ‘forced austerity’could lead to higher spending, a reduction of Germany’s historical surplus and the risk of inflation.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cyprus Shores Up Financial Sector
As the Mediterranean island nation's economy has stabilized, so too have its banks.
Country Report
Cyprus Tries, Again, to Move Ahead
The failure of UN negotiations aside, 2017 was a positive year of consolidation and growth for the Cypriot economy.