Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
AFP 2012 – End of FDIC Unlimited Insurance: Where Will Companies Stash Cash?
End of FDIC Unlimited Insurance: Where Will Companies Stash Cash? Part of the problem, of course, is the potential counterparty...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasury & Cash Management: Looking Externally For Improved Compliance Management
GIVING DILIGENCE ITS DUE By Karen Kroll Companies are using outsourced service providers, bringing in experts, and making use of new technology solutions to stay compliant with the increasingly complex global regulations. Despite some of the headlines ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Compliance & Regulation
WHO'S REGULATING THE REGULATORS? By Justin Keay Regulation tends to be reactionary: Regulators get in on the game after events have already happened. The jury is still out on the effectiveness of a lot of the regulation introduced in the ...
Banking
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Macroeconomics
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 ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Top 25 Lists: 25 Companies to Watch In The Next 25 Years
SUCCESSORS By Justin Keay Who would have predicted back in 1987 that Apple would today be one of the world's most dynamic and innovative companies? And Google, which emerged from nowhere back in 1998 but now dominates much more ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Top 25 Lists: 25 Events That Rocked The World
REVOLUTION By Laurence Neville The scale of the crisis that has engulfed much of the world since 2008, which—like a virus—has mutated from a financial sector crisis to an economic crisis to a sovereign debt crisis, is so great ...
Banking
Top 25 Lists: 25 Ideas That Changed The World
EVOLUTION By Laurence Neville Perhaps the defining characteristic of 2012—in contrast to 1987 when Global Finance launched—is the interconnectedness of the world. Globalization spreads ideas and connects markets Those in the US now have more in common with ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Top 25 Lists: 25 Most Influential Companies Over The Past 25 Years
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 ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Top 25 Lists: 25 Most Influential People of The Past 25 Years
INNOVATION By Laurence Neville No list of influential figures of the past quarter-century would be complete without Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, US president Ronald Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher—the three most important figures in ending the key ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Words Of Wisdom: Channa De Silva, LR Global
PEARL OF THE INDIAN OCEAN By Kim Iskyan Channa de Silva heads up LR Global Sri Lanka Asset Management, a top Sri Lankan private equity firm. He was previously CEO of the country's Securities Exchange Commission and executive ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Words Of Wisdom: Gerald Hassell, Bank Of New York Mellon
RESILIENCE UNDER PRESSURE By Denise Bedell Gerald Hassell is chairman, president and CEO of the Bank of New York Mellon. The bank, which focuses on investment management and investment services, has $26.6 trillion in assets under custody and administration, ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Words Of Wisdom: Herbert Stepic, Raiffeisen Bank International
THE BIG PICTURE By Anita Hawser Herbert Stepic is the chief executive officer of one of the largest banking organizations in Central & Eastern Europe, Raiffeisen Bank International. Global Finance : What are the key events over the ...