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Safest Banks In Western Europe: April 2013
GLOBAL FINANCE names the Safest Banks In Western Europe: April 2013 NEW YORK, February 26, 2013 Global Finance magazine (GFmag.com)...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Milestone: Basel III Liquidity Reprieve Welcomed By Most
MILESTONESGLOBAL By Luca Ventura “For the first time in regulatory history, we have a truly global minimum standard for bank liquidity,” announced the head of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Bank of England governor Mervyn King, during a ...
Banking
Milestone: Enforcement Will Only Get Tougher Under New FSA Regime
MILESTONES: UK By Anita Hawser After four years under a shadow, the UK’s Financial Services Authority is once again being held up as a model financial regulator — both for its principles-based approach to reporting and for its ability to ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Milestone: Growing Chorus At Home Urges UK To Break With Brussels
MILESTONES: EUROPE By Valentina Pasquali On the tail of the European economic crisis, the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union is nearing a breaking point. While in Brussels some members are pushing for further integration, in ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Canadian Carney Offers A Fresh Perspective At BofE
NEWSMAKERS: UK By Erik Heinrich Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, will have a new job next year. Post-Libor scandal, UK appoints outsider Carney Photo Credits: CARNEY: REUTERS/MARK BLINCH Starting in July, Carney will cross ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity: China, LatAm Could Boost IPOs
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS By Gordon Platt After declining sharply in 2012, initial public offerings could stage a turnround in the new year, say analysts, with China and Latin America leading the issuance. The ...
Banking
Europe And UK Relations Hit Low Tide
MILESTONES: UK/EU By Justin Keay UK and EU relations have always been tense, but their relationship has deteriorated dramatically in recent months. While headlines have focused on noisy arguments over support for struggling eurozone members or ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cross-Border Dealmaker Seeks To Exit Indonesian Deal
NEWSMAKERS: EUROPE/INDONESIA By Udayan Gupta Nathaniel Rothschild’s Indonesian mining deal in 2010 was seen as a portent of how such cross-border deals could be done. Rothschild (L) and Bakrie CEO Bobby Umar in happier days Thirty ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Investors, Not Banks, Will Feel Brunt Of Tobin Tax
MILESTONES: EU By Anita Hawser The proposed Tobin Tax, or financial transaction tax (FTT), is a political hot potato that is being kicked around by various European countries in the wake of the global financial crisis as a means ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Milestone: Judging Alternatives To Libor
MILESTONES: UK By Anita Hawser The ongoing controversy surrounding Libor, the global benchmark interest rate used for pricing financial contracts, has sparked a wider debate about the merits of using alternative reference rates. The Bank of England ...
Banking
Salon: Luigi Zingales Populist Revolt
POPULIST REVOLT By Vanessa Drucker Global Finance held its monthly Salon in the magazine’s New York office with Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago and author ...
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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 ...