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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EC: Pushing For New Fraud Regulator

MILESTONES By Valentina Pasquali With an estimated €500 million ($660 million) of the European Union budget lost to fraud every year, the European Commission is now pushing for the creation of a new European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) ...

Banking

Treasury & Cash Management: GLOBAL FINANCE CASH 25

WHAT’S UP WITH CORPORATE CASH? By Ronald Fink Among various explanations for corporations’ letting cash build up on their balance sheets, the most compelling one is that economic growth is still slow. But some companies are not waiting ...

Banking

UK: BoE Appointee Has EU Influence

NEWSMAKERS By Gilly Wright The surprise appointment of Sir Jon Cunliffe as deputy governor of the Bank of England shows how seriously the UK takes challenges to its financial sector. From November, Cunliffe will be responsible for ...

Award Winners

World’s Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks in Europe 2013

Global Finance names the 2013 World’s Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks in Europe NEW YORK, July 23, 2013 Global Finance has...

Awards

World’s Best Consumer Internet Banks in Europe 2013

Global Finance names the 2013 World’s Best Consumer Internet Banks in Europe NEW YORK, July 18, 2013 Global Finance has...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Country Report: Portugal

MODEL FOR GROWTH? By Vanessa Drucker The Troika’s “darling of reform” is in its third year of recession. Citizens—and policy-makers—want to see the promised economic rebound. Portugal and the European Union depend on one another. On the one ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

CHINESE SOLAR-PANEL MAKERS FACE TRADE TARIFFS IN EUROPE By Thomas Clouse Chinese companies face trade friction in Europe now that the European Commission has imposed tariffs on Chinese solar panels. The EU charges that Chinese companies are ...

News

Milestones: Luxembourg Opens Up Once-Sacred Banking Sector

MILESTONES: LUXEMBOURG By Forrest Jones Another tax haven is set to unveil its operations, this time in Western Europe. Luxembourg recently agreed to share confidential banking details belonging to multinational companies with its neighbors. The move, which will help ...

News

Newsmakers: Can Letta Save Italy From Austerity?

NEWSMAKERS: ITALY By Gilly Wright “Italy is dying from austerity alone. Growth policies cannot wait,” announced Italy’s new premier, Enrico Letta, in his first keynote speech. Can Letta pass reforms with weak coalition partners? Saying that priorities would ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: Finance Minister Has His Work Cut Out For Him

NEWSMAKERS: VENEZUELA By Paula L. Green Everyone from consumers weary of battling rising inflation to importers wrestling with a devalued currency and foreign and domestic investors whose companies were nationalized will have a stake in the actions Nelson José Merentes ...

News

Newsmakers: Icelands New PM To Focus On Household Debt

NEWSMAKERS: ICELAND By Valentina Pasquali Back to the future is the theme in Iceland after voters rejected the austerity policies of the left-of-center government in power for the past four years and reinstalled the same center-right coalition that presided over ...

Banking

Back Page: Polls and Stats – Do Bank Assets As A Multiple Of GDP Correlate To Bank Risk?

Do Bank Assets As A Multiple Of GDP Correlate To Bank Risk? Banks assets as a multiple of GDP has been considered a possible indicator of systemic risk. The following chart compiled by the Institute of International Finance showing ...