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Cover Story

Cover Story : Look Ahead to 2005

Around the world, hopes are high for what this year will bring. We take a look at the prospects in the key regions and emerging markets. As 2005 begins to unfold, investors and corporates around the world have plenty of ...

Features

Features : Treasury & Cash Management

Slow Technology Take-up Hinders Forecasting Technological advances have made cash forecasting much more accurate. Many companies have yet to take advantage of the new capabilities, though. Ask any corporate treasurer or collections manager how they do their cash forecasting, and ...

Features : World’s Best Foreign Exchange Banks

World’s Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2005 Global Finance selects the leaders in the world’s biggest financial market. The recent slide in the value of the dollar has focused the eyes of the world on the foreign exchange markets, where the ...

Features : World’s Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2005

Global Finance selects the leaders in the world’s biggest financial market. World’s Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2005 Regional Winners North America Citigroup Latin America Citigroup Western Europe Deutsche Bank Western Europe (Honorable Mention) BNP Western Europe (Honorable Mention) UBS Central ...

The World's Best Foreign Exchange Banks

Features : World’s Best Foreign Exchange Banks

World’s Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2005 Global Finance selects the leaders in the world’s biggest financial market. The recent slide in the value of the dollar has focused the eyes of the world on the foreign exchange markets, where the ...

Milestones

Milestones : Two Centuries of Debt on Display

Argentina When Argentina unveils its Museum of Foreign Debt in March, organizers are not aiming for busloads of camera-toting tourists. Instead, they hope it will help Argentines grasp how it is that their country has been in a perennial headlock ...

Milestones : BSCH’s Dreams of Empire

Spain When BSCH, Spain’s largest bank, set out on a banking sector acquisition spree throughout Latin America a few years ago, many regarded its chairman, Emilio Botin, as a modern-day ‘conquistador.’ Today, Botin rules over BSCH from Ciudad Grupo Santander, ...

Corporate Finance

Editor's Letter : Dear Reader

Vive La Resolution!

For many people, the New Year is a time to take stock of their lives and to set goals for the year ahead...

Corporate Finance : Corporate Debt

Corporate Financing Focus Role of Insurance Grows in Global Debt Offerings as Complexity Increases Isbank of Turkey completed a $600 million securitization deal based on diversified payment rights on November 22, 2004, with Standard Chartered Bank as sole lead manager ...

Corporate Finance : Foreign Exchange

Analysts Expect Dollar Déjà vu: More Losses The outlook for the dollar in 2005 depends on a host of factors, some of which nobody could possibly foresee. But the most likely scenario, analysts say, is a continued orderly decline, with ...

Corporate Finance : Global Equity/drs

China Netcom’s IPO Raises $1.2 Billion China Netcom, China’s second-biggest fixed-line phone company, raised $1.2 billion in an initial public offering of shares in Hong Kong and American depositary receipts in New York. The company plans to spend half of ...

Corporate Finance : Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity Funds go Shopping in Europe New York-based private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in its third European acquisition of 2004, led a group that agreed on November 30 to buy electrical equipment supplier Rexel from France’s Pinault-Printemps-Redoute ...

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