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    Water: Its Value And Risks

    Water: Its Value And Risks

    December 09, 2019

    Water is critical to business, and with supplies increasingly at risk, companies cannot take it for granted anymore.

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    Plain-Sailing Future For Trade Finance Digitization

    Plain-Sailing Future For Trade Finance Digitization

    December 09, 2019

    Trade finance is moving out of the paper age. But to fully leverage digitization, banks need to tear down data silos and standardize tools and procedures.

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    Water: Its Value And Risks

    Water: Its Value And Risks

    December 09, 2019

    Water is critical to business, and with supplies increasingly at risk, companies cannot take it for granted anymore.

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    World's Best Banks 2019: Bank Of America Named Best Bank In The World

    World's Best Banks 2019: Bank Of America Named Best Bank In The World

    October 10, 2019

    Global Finance unveils its 26th annual listing of the best banks globally, regionally and in 149 countries. The winners outperformed their peers using sustainable business models and good governance, while adapting to rapid change.

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    Countries With The Most External Debt 2019

    Countries With The Most External Debt 2019

    October 28, 2019

    Here is the list of countries that owe the most to foreign creditors in 2019. The United States leads, followed by the Euro area and the United Kingdom.

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    Global Finance Awards Ceremony At Sibos 2019

    September 25, 2019

    Dozens of banks attended Global Finance magazine's transaction banking award ceremony in the iconic Gherkin Building.

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CANADA: NEW FINANCE MINISTER HAS BIG SHOES TO FILL

May 07, 2014
  • North America,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
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When, on March 18, longtime Canadian Finance minister Jim Flaherty unexpectedly announced his resignation, few were perhaps more surprised than his soon-to-be successor, Joe Oliver, the 73-year-old minister of Natural Resources.

BRAZIL'S MANTEGA TAKES A HIT, STILL STANDING

May 07, 2014
  • Latin America,
  • Emerging Markets,
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  • Macroeconomy & Globalization

Brazilian Finance minister Guido Mantega may be dealing with both internal and external headwinds, but he—and Brazil—are still standing.

A Climate of Risk

April 03, 2014
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Weird weather presents major problems for supply chains, and 77% of companies believe climate change has the potential to significantly affect their revenue.

Italy: Ex-OECD Exec Takes Finance Reins

April 01, 2014
  • Western Europe,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
  • Macroeconomy & Globalization

NEWSMAKERS By Valentina Pasquali Headed by 39-year-old prime minister Matteo Renzi, Italy’s new government is the youngest in the country’s history. But at the helm of the ministry of Finance is an official with a lot of stripes—the former chief ...

Cover: The Global Trade Backlash

April 01, 2014
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Multinational corporations lobbied hard for preferential agreements under proposed Asian and European trade pacts. But the result may be more than they bargained for.

Italy: Remodeling The Vatican Bank

April 01, 2014
  • Western Europe,
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  • Global Banking

MILESTONES   By Luca Ventura   The oldest multinational in the world is about to get a substantial makeover. The news came on February 24th, when its CEO, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, also known as pope Francis, issued a Motu Proprio, ...

Global Salon: Richard Bove

April 01, 2014
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
  • Global Banking

THE BIG, THE BAD AND THE SAFEST By Hilary Johnson At Global Finance ’s monthly Salon, Richard Bove, bank analyst at Rafferty Capital and author of the book, Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks , spoke about overregulation ...

Corporate Tax: The Cost Of Evasion

March 31, 2014
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  • Global Investing

Corporate tax evasion is like the weather: Everyone complains about it, but what is being done and what does it mean for corporations?

Unicredit’s Recent Write-Offs Unlikely To Satisfy ECB

March 25, 2014
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
  • Western Europe,
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UniCredit Holding, Milan The write-offs taken in early March by UniCredit may fall well short of what Italy’s largest bank needs to do to satisfy the European Central Bank before it takes over supervision of UniCredit and other EU members’ ...

The 411 on Anti-Money-Laundering

March 06, 2014
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
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Given the spate of recent fines by UK and US regulators against banks for failure to comply with anti-money laundering regulations, it’s worth exploring the question of why the banks keep coming up short. The most recent headline was the ...

Chile: Arenas Takes Finance Helm

March 02, 2014
  • Latin America,
  • Emerging Markets,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance

NEWSMAKERS By Forrest Jones Alberto Arenas returns to government as Finance minister with some big plans for a country looking to enact education, labor and other reforms. A budget director during Chilean president Michelle Bachelet’s first term in office from ...

UK: Britain Is A Tax Haven

March 02, 2014
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MILESTONES By Ronald Fink Fiat-Chrysler’s move from Italy to London, and the plans of other multinationals to relocate to the United Kingdom, cements the UK’s newfound international tax status. The car manufacturer’s recent decision to shift its tax domicile from ...

Cover Story: The Volcker Effect

February 05, 2014
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
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PROPRIETARY TRADING By Michael Shari Corporate clients of investment banks around the world could see a dramatic impact from the Volcker Rule, Basel III and other new rules against bank proprietary trading. Like his counterparts at many large and small ...

NAFTA Turns Twenty: So Far, So Good?

February 05, 2014
  • North America,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
  • Trade & Supply Chain,
  • Macroeconomy & Globalization

MILESTONES By Forrest Jones Few things polarize policymakers like free-trade agreements, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) linking the United States, Canada and Mexico. Critics of the agreement feared it meant jobs and industries would relocate to underdeveloped ...

Will the 'Google Tax' Go Viral?

January 16, 2014
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
  • Tax & Accounting,
  • Treasury & Cash Management

Tax officials perplexed by Google (Photo: CoolCaesar) If 2013 was the year public opinion turned solidly against the tax avoidance strategies of large technology companies, 2014 promises to be the year lawmakers actually address the schemes. In late December, Italy ...

Bernanke: In Praise of Bernanke

January 09, 2014
  • Macroeconomy & Globalization,
  • North America,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance

Bernanke: The Visible Hand For Ben Bernanke, a rocky eight-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is ending on a good note. The U.S. economy, teetering on the brink in the wake of the financial crisis that erupted ...

Ryanair’s O’Leary vs. EasyJet’s McCall: No contest

December 13, 2013
  • Global Investing,
  • Western Europe,
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance

Ryanair: Attitude Adjustment When EasyJet in November reported a pre-tax profit of £478 million (US$785 million) for fiscal 2013—a 51% jump from the previous year—it caused a considerable flap with the shareholders of rival budget airline Ryanair. The stockholders’ vexation ...

Eike Batista: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

December 03, 2013
  • Emerging Markets,
  • Latin America,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance

Batista: An SOS at OSX (Photo: Juliana Coutinho) When they fall, they fall hard. The past few months have brought only bad news to embattled former billionaire Eike Batista—known simply to most Brazilians as Eike—and his once-formidable EBX Group conglomerate. ...

India And Indonesia: Going Cold Turkey

December 02, 2013
  • Asia-Pacific,
  • Emerging Markets,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
  • Macroeconomy & Globalization

The prospect of US Fed “tapering” is still taking its toll on Indonesia and India, as both nations face mounting deficits and international pressure for structural reform. 

North Korea: Ignore The Sanctions

December 02, 2013
  • Asia-Pacific,
  • Emerging Markets,
  • Governance, Regulation & Compliance,
  • Macroeconomy & Globalization

North Korea has taken modest steps in recent weeks to liberalize its economy by introducing new special economic zones (SEZs), loosening currency exchange restrictions and strengthening foreign trade relationships.

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