
Mossi Happy To Play Grinch For A Stronger Central America
In a turnaround from 2022, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration's latest infrastructure bond offering is proving popular with investors.
Global news and insight for corporate financial professionals
In a turnaround from 2022, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration's latest infrastructure bond offering is proving popular with investors.
Fossil fuels had a comeback year, but the green transition is accelerating.
The Covid-19 pandemic created some waves in the foreign exchange markets over the last couple of years, but the re-emergence of global inflation and inflation-fighting central banks has truly rocked the currency world this year.
Unemployment is simple enough to understand: it is an economic condition in which individuals seeking jobs remain un-hired. Yet measuring how many people are unemployed at any given moment in any given country is rather complex.
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.
While the decline of regional banks in Japan can be traced as far back as the mid-1980s and 1990s, led mainly by a series of bankruptcies up until around 2003, the precipitous drop since the mid-1990s has been mainly due to mergers and acquisitions.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will nominate a new head of the BoJ perhaps as early as February.
ESG makes headway in the shipping industry thanks to Japan.
Mizuho Americas’ primary businesses are investment and corporate banking, lending, treasury services, and research and capital markets offerings.
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida seeks to follow the path carved out by the late Shinzo Abe on foreign and defense policy while putting his own stamp on economic policy.
Last year SoftBank earned the highest profits ever for a Japanese firm and during the first quarter of 2022 had its worst quarter ever, losing $15 billion.
A digitally tracked green bond uses technology such as blockchain to improve data transparency and data collection efficiency for green or environmental securities.
Mizuho and Google will collaborate not only on new products but also on upgrading the bank's dated legacy systems.
Growing international sanctions are raising pressure on the island nation, which relies heavily on imports to power its enormous economy, to exit Russian projects.
SBI Sumishin Net Bank’s IPO will be an important milestone for banks in Japan, many of which lag behind international rivals in their digital offerings.
As Japan Inc. increases its divestment of legacy businesses, a new appetite for overseas tech firms is emerging.
SPACs have become all the rage in North America, but have yet to make a big splash in Asia.
Japan moves to digitize government services.
Activist investor campaigns in Japan caused a stir earlier this year when Effissimo Capital Management and Farallon Capital Management, raised concerns about the management of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba.
Tokyo is increasingly beating Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore for IPO listings.
Tokyo is reviving ambitions to be Asia’s top global financial hub. Many factors, including the country’s fully diversified economy and high level of household savings, favor the effort. But will it work this time around?