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A new sustainability report by Morningstar reached a surprising conclusion: ESG practices in some emerging markets are superior to those of the US.

Singapore-based Broadcom redomiciled to the US, but it wasn't enough to get permission for its acquisition of US-based Qualcomm. Now Qualcomm's merger with the Netherlands' NXP may be at risk, as China and the US ratchet up their economic disputes.  

As the equatorial nation's sovereign debt gains international favor, local corporate bonds find a broader and deeper-pocketed array of investors.

Supermarkets choose between joining forces with third-party delivery services or buying them outright to serve customers faster and better. Saving costs on the last mile remains challenging.

China finds itself in a position to lead as the developing world begins to invest in renewable projects.

Does JPMorgan Chase really need a new headquarters? Or is this just an expression of Jamie Dimon's edifice complex? And how likely are other banks to invest their own financial assets in constructing bigger and better offices rather than clients' projects?

A Bocconi University analysis shows that a foreign CFO is likely to add a layer of investor protection. While anecdotal reports support this, the view from emerging markets suggests the global reality is not so straightforward.

With deadlines only months away, treasury officers will need to improve their processes and leverage new technology to meet new IFRS and GAAP standards.

French Total, Italian ENI and Russian Novatek won Lebanon’s first tender for hydrocarbon exploration and production. Operations start in 2019 in two offshore blocks, including one disputed by Israel.

Readers were looking for data driven stories in 2017 and we delivered. 

Feature stories on economic evaluation of President Trump's first year in office to those capturing new trends in global trade and finance, fintech, the profession of auditing and global economy, were most popular with Global Finance readers.

The world’s economy is on its path to recovery, but it’s still fragile.

These are the 15 biggest countries in terms of GDP plus the Euro Area and the European Union aggregates. 

Nauru, Ethiopia, Turkmenistan, Qatar, China and Uzbekistan are the countries with the fastest growing economies in the World as per IMF data for the last 10 years. Here is a complete list for the world's fastest growing economies in 2017 by GDP.

Zurch headquartered Falcon Private Bank has appointed Martin Keller as its  new CEO effective today. Keller's appoitment is part of the bank's turnaround plan and comes ahead of the rebranding that the bank will launch in the fourth quarter of 2017. ...

US based CFOs have cause to cheer with the US economy growing at a faster clip than expected. The Bureau of Economic Analysis on Wednesday revised the US real gross domestic product (GDP)  growth rate for the second quarter of 2017 to 3%  from ...

FM Global, one of the world’s largest business property insurers, four years ago created its Resilience Index to rank 130 countries and territories according to their ability to manage disruptive events. 

Delaware has proposed amendments to new legislation that would enable corporations to use distributed ledgers for record-keeping and to keep track of stock transactions, the state’s latest effort to be a first mover when it comes to blockchain technology. 

The partnership of mobile-only bank N26 with German fintech Raisin allows the bank to offer its clients, initially in Germany but across the EU beginning next year, the chance to open savings accounts with just a few taps. As Raisin ...

Swaps and other derivatives, blamed by some for causing the global financial crisis, have returned in a big but deceptive way.