Foreign Exchange

In the Western world, September is synonymous with the beginning of the school year, and represents the resumption of full economic activity after summer vacation...

TRANSITION AND TRANSFORMATION   By Valentina Pasquali   Saad Mohseni is the chairman of Moby Group, Afghanistan's largest media conglomerate. Mohseni founded the company in 2002 upon returning home to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.   Global Finance: What ...

INTERNATIONAL VISION   By Andrea Fiano   Guo Guangchang is the chairman of Chinese conglomerate Fosun Group. Fosun International was established in 1992 and now ranks among China's top 100 enterprises.   Global Finance: What key changes defined the past 25 ...

RISING TO THE MOMENT   By Paula Green   Martin Senn became chief executive officer of Zurich Insurance in January 2010 after joining Zurich as chief investment officer in 2006. A Swiss citizen and career international banker, he spent 18 years ...

TURBULENT TIMES   By Gordon Platt   Ibrahim Dabdoub has been CEO of National Bank of Kuwait since 1983.   Global Finance: What are the key risks over the next 5, 10 and 25 years? Ibrahim Dabdoub: As a banker, I ...

CURRENCY CRISES AND CURRENCY WARS   By Gordon Platt   FX has withstood many crises, including speculative attacks on the British pound, the Mexican peso crisis, the Thai baht crisis and, more recently, a euro under strain and a potential threat ...

AFRICA UNBOUND   By Antonio Guerrero   Arnold Epke, group CEO at Ecobank, a pan-African bank founded in 1985 and with a presence in 32 countries, shares his insights on Africa's past, present and prospects.   Global Finance : How will ...

SEXY AND SOPHISTICATED   By Anita Hawser   Oiling the wheels of global trade has never been more important, particularly as regulation and capital constraints challenge banks' commitment to the business.   Collaborative B2B platforms and investors are poised to play ...

SUSTAINING THE MIRACLE   By Anita Hawser   Mike Rees, CEO, wholesale banking, Standard Chartered, discusses the risks and opportunities for emerging markets going forward, and China's economic transformation.   Global Finance: What key events have shaped the current global economy? ...

SUCCESSES   By Laurence Neville   A quick glance at the Fortune 500 for 1987 and 2012 reveals a number of similarities in the ranking of the largest companies in the US: ExxonMobil, GM, Ford, GE and AT&T all feature prominently ...

DRIVE FOR DEMOCRACY   By Gordon Platt   Adel El-Labban, group CEO and managing director of Ahli United Bank, Bahrain, has had a major influence on Middle Eastern banking.   Global Finance: The past 25 years in the Middle East have ...

A Time Of Profound Change   By Thomas Clouse   Zhang Jianguo is president and chief executive of China Construction Bank (CCB) .   Global Finance: How will China´s financial system change as interest rates liberalize, capital markets develop, and ...

Transformation   By Justin Keay   How things change. A list of the best business, economics and finance books compiled pre-crisis would probably have focused on up-and-coming Internet companies, how to make a fortune on the stock exchange, how to invest ...

EVOLVING RISKS   By Al Modugno   Steve McGill is group president of Aon plc and chairman and chief executive officer of Aon Risk Solutions. He oversees the development of Aon's overall growth strategy and opportunity planning.   Global Finance: What events over ...

DISINTERMEDIATION AND GLOBALIZATION   By Thomas Clouse   Piyush Gupta is CEO of Singapore's DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank.   Global Finance: What have been the key financial trends since 1987? Piyush Gupta: On a global level, disintermediation, not just ...

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT   By Udayan Gupta   David Wilton is chief investment officer and manager, global private equity, at theWorld Bank's IFC, with responsibility for its investment program in emerging markets funds globally. He is a member of the Pension ...

THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT   By Kathryn Tully   For its anniversary issue, Global Finance crunched the numbers to come up with the institutions that have won our World's Best Bank awards most often over the past 16 years. Presenting The ...

THE HUMAN FACTOR IN ECONOMIC THEORY   By Justin Keay   Traditional economic theory has been challenged by recent market events in global financial markets, and that challenge has given rise to a new generation of economic soothsayers who are looking ...

MODERNIZATION   By Justin Keay   Back in 1987 the main recipients of foreign direct investment were developed markets, plus some of Asia's miracle economies. Emerging markets barely featured. Today Russia and Poland are in the top 25 along with India, ...

HISTORY AT A CROSSROADS   By Valentina Pasquali   Rubens Amaral is the incoming CEO of Bladex, the Foreign Trade Bank of Latin America, a supranational institution that serves the capitalization needs of banks and promotes foreign trade across the region. ...