Ben T. Smith IV, a longtime Silicon Valley executive and currently head of the Communications, Media and Technology practice at Kearney, speaks to Global Finance about the post-SVB venture capital industry and the pace of innovation.
Many of the world's richest countries are also the world's smallest: the pandemic and the global economic slowdown barely made a dent in their huge wealth.
Global Finance editor Andrea Fiano interviews Ásgeir Jónsson, Central Bank Governor of Iceland during Global Finance's World's Best Bank Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on October 15th.
In November at the Westin Hotel in the heart of Beijing's financial district,
Global Finance
hosted an awards ceremony for 2010's Stars of China. These awards, first published in the November issue, profile China's best companies and financial institutions. This year's Stars of China awards ceremony was attended by a record number of leading corporate and banking executives.
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Delegates at the awards ceremony, including Standard Chartered bank’s Louis Lim (left)
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Sun Bing Feng, deputy manager for housing finance and lending at China Construction Bank
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Li Mang, deputy general manager of Bank of China’s corporate banking unit
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Li Xiao Peng, vice president of ICBC with Global Finance publisher Joseph Giarraputo (right)
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Liu Yu Long, deputy manager for rural finance at ABOC
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Zhang Jian, general manager and senior vice president of corporate banking at China Merchants Bank
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Hua Wei Ni Jian, vice president of sales financing and treasury management at Huawei Technologies
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Jason Tsang, chief operating officer of China investment banking for Goldman Sachs