Foreign Exchange

COVER STORY — RENMINBI RISING   By Michael Shari   Multinationals are positioning themselves to capture lucrative gains from the internationalization of China’s currency.   When McDonald’s became the first non-Chinese corporation that was allowed to issue a bond denominated ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / FOREIGN EXCHANGE by Gordon Platt The euro tumbled against the dollar, the yen and the Swiss franc in mid-June, as European finance ministers reached an impasse on a second Greek aid package and demonstrators clashed with ...

EXPOSING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK   By Denise Bedell   Companies with international operations are looking beyond spreadsheets to get a timelier view of their global FX exposures.   Within a few hours of Osama bin Laden’s being killed, global markets ...

SPOTLIGHT: FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING   By Anita Hawser   Technology is enabling faster and more-flexible trading in foreign exchange—and helping drive the rapid rise in daily trading volume.   Erik Lehtis, president of Chicago-based Dynamic FX Consulting, has experienced firsthand ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Gordon Platt   China is planning major investments in foreign companies, including those in the US, in order to help turn its mountain of paper dollars and other currencies into hard assets and ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS：FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Gordon Platt   Dollar Weakens As Eurozone Rates Are First To Rise     Differing monetary policy reactions to the rise in oil prices are driving currency values at the moment, while gains in ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The dollar has been drifting lower this year on expectations that the Federal Reserve will lag behind other developed-market central banks in raising interest rates to fight inflation, analysts say. Currency Forecasts ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Matt Greco   Things may not look quite as bleak as they did a couple of months ago when there was talk—however irresponsible—of currency wars as trade war by other means, but international ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Denise Bedell   Contrary to some analysts' expectations, developing countries continue to view the US dollar as the reserve currency of choice, as evidenced by newly allocated official reserves of developing countries—even in ...

Best Online Foreign Exchange Trading Systems Bank System State Street's Currenex Currenex, part of State Street Global Markets, offers streaming prices that are available for immediate trading from more than 60 global banks. Currenex also offers one of the largest ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: UNCERTAINTY BREEDS CURRENCY VOLATILITY   By Gordon Platt   Global Finance selects the leaders in the world's biggest financial market, where trading averages $4 trillion a day.   Europe's sovereign debt crisis, China's monetary tightening and the Federal ...

Regional Winners North America Citi Citi is one of the largest FX providers in the world, with more than 1,400 currency trading and sales professionals in 85 countries. "We continue to invest heavily in our business," says Jeff Feig, managing ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The tax deal reached between President Obama and the opposition Republican Party could boost US economic growth to around 3% in 2011, economists forecast. The improved economic outlook and rising bond yields ...

Best Foreign Exchange Research & Analysis Research BNY Mellon BNY Mellon, one of the largest foreign exchange dealers in the US, offers support in virtually all currencies, with particular expertise in emerging market currencies. In addition to being the largest ...

Global Winner Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank has the biggest, most diversified and most profitable foreign exchange operation in the world. "The critical factor is that we are excellent across the board—by client type, by region and by products," says Kevin ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Gordon Platt   Although the Federal Reserve's main focus is not the dollar, which is the purview of the US Treasury Department, it had to know that its $600 billion asset- purchase plan ...

NEW YORK, November 22, 2010 – Global Finance magazine has named the "Best Foreign Exchange Banks and Providers" by country, region and category in an exclusive survey to be published in the January 2011 issue. Deutsche Bank was named as ...

READY FOR PRIME TIME   By Gordon Platt   Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order.   Future growth of the foreign exchange prime brokerage industry will come from asset managers that are ...

China's trade deficit with the US rose to another record in August, fanning the brush fires that have broken out in the currency markets. Currency issues dominated talks at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ...

WHO'S WHO   By Gordon Platt   Key players in foreign exchange.   Jamie Thorsen Executive managing director BMO Capital Markets Jamie Thorsen heads global foreign exchange operations in Canada, the US and Europe for BMO Capital Markets and oversees ...