Global Banking

PIONEERS GO MOBILE   In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product or service category.   By Adam Rombel   Much of the past year ...

Supply Chain Finance In Growing Demand   The credit crunch has demonstrated which banks are truly committed to developing supply chain finance solutions.   By Anita Hawser   Few market segments within financial services have emerged unscathed from the recent ...

SUB-CUSTODIANS TACKLE NEW CHALLENGES   Global Finance selects the leading providers of the specialized services that make cross-border investing possible.   By Gordon Platt   Global custodians and money managers are putting their sub-custodians under the microscope in the wake ...

Despite a recent drop in profits amid the country's economic slowdown, Brazilian banks are poised for long-term growth. By Antonio Guerrero Amid a turbulent global market, Brazil's banking and financial sector is proving remarkably resilient. A stringent regulatory environment, strong ...

CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS 2008 ANNUAL SURVEY/ CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Contributors: Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Gordon Platt History will judge whether the actions taken by central bankers during the past year to rescue financial institutions from the clutches ...

Global Finance selects the winners in a fast-growing area of finance that combines investing according to the tenets of Islamic law with modern financial products and systems.   By Laurence Neville For a brief moment it seemed that the world ...

The clouds parted over the investment banking business in the first quarter of this year amid some hope that a more sustainable model for success is emerging.   By Gordon Platt September 21, 2008, was a date that may be ...

  EUROPE IN CRISIS     Many of Europe’s former star economies are still struggling to find their feet after falling prey to the credit crunch. By Laurence Neville   Emerging Europe is on the edge of a precipice. Already ...

ANNUAL SURVEY THE BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2009     In our 16th annual survey of top banking performers in emerging markets, we name those banks that are consistently providing high levels of service in fast-evolving markets. By Gordon Platt ...

ANALYSIS FINANCIAL CENTERS     Established financial centers are seeing their dominance challenged in the aftermath of the credit crunch. BY ANITA HAWSER   In early April, as leaders from the Group of 20 countries gathered with the expectation that ...

ANNUAL SURVEY/ SAFEST BANKS MID-YEAR UPDATE Global Finance selects the world’s safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading credit ratings agencies. Such has been the turmoil in the world’s banking industry that Global Finance is ...

  WORLD’S BEST DEVELOPED MARKETS BANKS 2009       Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks in developed markets around the world. By Laurence Neville When Global Finance published its 2008 awards a year ago, the ...

Infrastructure spending Policymakers are pouring money into infrastructure projects in an attempt to head off economic disaster.   Cohen: When stability returns, infrastructure will be attractive. All aspects of infrastructure will be on the rise in 2009, as the United ...

UNITED KINGDOM     Tough talk: FSA chairman Adair Turner Britain’s battered banks—reeling from plunging share prices and ever-worsening subprime losses—face a major overhaul in the way they are regulated. Britain’s unified regulatory body, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is ...

Banking crisis / central & eastern europe Central and Eastern Europe has suffered more than most regions as a result of the credit crunch. Some are concerned that economic turmoil may lead to social unrest.   Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia ...

ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS Trade finance banks are enjoying rising demand for basic risk management services as world trade faces a difficult period. Global trade is expected to decline in 2009 for the first time since 1982, ...

BEST FX PROVIDERS Global Finance selects the leaders in the world’s biggest financial market.   The foreign exchange market has continued to thrive throughout the global financial crisis, providing some welcome profits for beleaguered financial institutions. Average daily turnover has ...

BANKING CRISIS FALLOUT Colossal losses by financial institutions have prompted calls for more-effective regulation. Refining the Basel banking rules might provide the answer.     Global crisis: For the biggest names in banking there has been nowhere to hide from ...

BEST INTERNET BANKS 2008 In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best corporate/institutional and consumer Internet banks globally and in six regions.         These are tough times for banks to focus on Internet ...

BANKING ON INNOVATION SYSTEMIC RISK Businesses are finding imaginative ways to circumvent the credit crunch. The solutions they adopt now could have profound implications for their future operations.   For months this year, pessimists had been predicting a global financial ...