Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s letter: Excellence Amid Uncertainty
The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Tokyo opens under the shadow of continuing economic uncertainty...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Euro Supported By ECB Plan To Buy Bonds
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro rebounded to a two-month high in early September, as European...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
IMF Playing Catch-Up With Global Economy, Says Former Adviser
MILESTONES: IMF/WORLD BANK By Laurence Neville A year on from the appointment of Christine Lagarde as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the challenges faced by her institution—and its sister entity, the World Bank—in helping to right ...
Banking
Owen Leads New Unit At RBS
NEWSMAKERS: UNITED KINGDOM By Anita Hawser Since its bailout after the 2008 financial crisis, Royal Bank of Scotland has come under pressure from the government to increase lending, and recent reports suggest the government is considering fully nationalizing ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Salon: Robert Brusca, FAO Economics
ECONOMIC CHEMOTHERAPY By Udayan Gupta Global Finance sat down with economist Robert Brusca, head of consultancy FAO Economics, to discuss the global outlook, the future of Greece and the problem with current-account surpluses and deficits. Brusca has been ...
Banking
SIBOS: Centralization: Under One Roof
SHARING THE BURDEN By Karen Kroll New regulations and global uncertainty are reviving corporate focus on payment factories and in-house banks. As companies look further outside their borders for new growth and increased regulation makes tracking cash ...
Banking
SIBOS: SWIFT For Corporates
BEYOND CONNECTIVITY By Rebecca Brace SWIFT continues to roll out new company-focused initiatives as its corporate user-base grows. As SWIFT’s corporate membership figures rise—the number currently stands at around 970–the bank-owned cooperative is working on a number ...
Banking
World’s Best Banks 2012: Global Winners
By Gordon Platt, Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson & Antonio Guerrero Global Winners BEST CORPORATE BANK Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany, is a leading global corporate and investment bank and has long been the top foreign exchange ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover: Searching for Global Demand
DEMAND WHERE WILL IT COME FROM? By Laurence Neville The worldwide call for public, private and corporate debt reduction raises the question of where spending and demand will come from going forward. Particularly now, as emerging markets stars—such ...
Banking
Europe: German Court President Weighs Legality Of Stability Mechanism
NEWSMAKERS: EUROPE By Valentina Pasquali With the fate of the debt-ridden eurozone hanging in the balance, the German Federal Constitutional Court is expected to decide on September 12 whether the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the currency union's permanent ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Central Banks Could Help Euro
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt A favorable ruling by Germany’s constitutional court on the legitimacy of the...
Award Winners
Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Regional Winners
By Gordon Platt NORTH AMERICA FINANCIAL ADVISER: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group MUFG led the $585 million nonrecourse financing of the Wind Energy Transmission Texas project, and structured a $387 million construction loan for the Lone Star Transmission project, a 329-mile transmission ...