Trade & Supply Chain

Jump To See Winners ANNUAL SURVEY: TRADE FINANCE BECOMES AN ASSET CLASS Global Finance presents its annual awards for the Best Trade Finance Institutions globally, regionally, and by country. The outlook for the trade finance business in 2014 is rosy, ...

MILESTONES   By J.R. Brandstrader   Transatlantic investment was hurt by the recent global financial and eurozone sovereign debt crises, but America’s heartland still has eyes for Europe.   Johns Hopkins’s Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington, DC, found that, ...

NEWSMAKERS   By Valentina Pasquali   US retail giant Wal-Mart is going for tradition and loyalty in selecting its new CEO and president. In an effort to strengthen its bottom line at a time when the industry is in a ...

RISK MANAGEMENT   By Andrew Osterland   As companies expand their supply chains globally, the hazards they face—from extreme weather events to political upheavals—expand too. Managing such risks comprehensively beats rolling the dice.   The lure of fast-growing markets and ...

American and foreign manufacturers alike are investing billions of dollars all across the United States, as the world’s most competitive economy shows tantalizing signs of recovery. Rising labor costs in other parts of the world means reshoring is gathering pace.

Is Basel III to blame for the $425 billion shortfall in trade finance in developing Asia? Some observers think so, but others say trade finance needs to go back to basics.

As third-quarter profits plunged 44%, US heavy equipment-manufacturer Caterpillar slashed its 2013 profit forecast for the third quarter in a row. Caterpillar is being hit with lower demand in nearly all its major business sectors, but about three-quarters of the drop in sales were the result of lower sales of mining equipment.

There is a new definition of the emerging markets and their characteristics that confutes many old and accepted axioms; for example, the idea that the cost of labor is cheaper in developing countries, or that governance is more advanced and regulations are more enforced in developed countries.

MILESTONES By Gordon Platt The presidents of Colombia, Peru and Chile sat down to lunch with the economy minister of Mexico at a “CEO summit” in New York in late September. The four chatted amiably about the Pacific Alliance, their ...

MILESTONES By Luca Ventura With a fifth of the world’s population but only 9% of its land, China in recent years has aggressively upped its agricultural investments abroad, amassing over 2 million hectares of emerging markets farmland in Africa, Southeast ...

SPECIAL REPORT   By Erik Heinrich   Free-trade superblocs are being negotiated in North America, Europe and Asia. They will forever alter the flow of commerce and finance—and leave winners and losers in their wake.   The world is poised ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A cliché, to be sure, but one that rings true right now for corporate treasury & cash management. Companies continue to hold on to cash, as is abundantly clear in ...

IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT   By Hilary Johnson   Companies taking a best-practice approach to AP and AR management are seeing big cost savings and much-improved cycle times. But revamping processes is no mean feat.   Like other former back-office ...

REGIONAL REPORT: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE — A MIXED BAG   By Justin Keay   Central and Eastern European countries are quite diverse in their performance of late. However, investors continue to lump them together when it comes to investments. ...

Global Finance ’s annual list of Who’s Who in Treasury & Cash Management   Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Murali Subramanian Executive president and head of transaction banking   ADCB’s transaction banking division, which has won numerous industry accolades for cash ...

REGIONAL SUPERSECTION — SHALE OIL BOOM RATTLES GCC ECONOMIES   By Gordon Platt   As US shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long term.   ...

MILESTONES   By Gordon Platt   At a time when economic activity in Russia has lost its momentum, the World Bank is elevating the country to high-income status.   According to the World Bank’s latest annual classification of the world’s ...

AT HAVEN’S END? Multinational corporations could have a much more difficult time shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions—and deductions to high-tax ones—under new OECD rules. When Apple CEO Tim Cook testified in defense of the computer giant’s tax practices on Capitol ...

CFO INTERVIEW — A GLOBAL VIEW   By Denise Bedell   Nick Fanandakis, EVP and CFO of global agriculture, industrial bioscience and advanced materials company DuPont, sat down with Global Finance to discuss the firm’s growth strategy, resource allocation and ...

Mongolia, which has been growing at double-digit rates since the short recession that followed the global financial crisis, is struggling to find the right path in making use of abundant resources to improve the lives of its citizens, while providing a stable and fair business environment for investors.