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Euromoney magazine has released the results of its 42nd annual foreign exchange ranking, the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative annual study available on the FX markets.
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Euromoney’s survey shows the pandemic crisis is having both predictable and unexpected effects on economic, political and structural indicators as the world faces the biggest investor shock in living memory.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of black gold.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of how Beijing is seeking to globalize the renminbi, through currency swaps and trade-financing facilities; the rise of the offshore bond market; and how fee-hungry banks are salivating at the prospect of the RMB’s growth.
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More than 2,000 private bankers took part in the 2020 Euromoney private banking survey. See who’s up and who’s down globally, regionally and domestically.
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Voted for by more than 7000 treasury professionals, find out which banks rank top in the Euromoney Trade Finance Survey 2020.
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Fixed income research consumers tell us which research teams have impressed them most over the last 12 months.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of the benchmark that serves as a reference rate for hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial instruments - and the upcoming transition to new risk-free rates (RFRs).
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Additional tier-1 (AT1) securities and contingent convertible capital instruments, known as CoCo bonds, absorb losses when the capital of the issuing financial institution falls below a supervisor-determined level. Here we explain everything you need to know about these hybrid securities, a key plank in bank-resolution plans, and implications for issuers and investors.
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A list of winners of Euromoney’s Middle East Awards for Excellence 2019, as well as detailed citations for all of the winners, is available here.
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Euromoney magazine has released the results of its 41st annual foreign exchange ranking, the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative annual study available on the FX markets.
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Protectionism is undermining an otherwise moderate global outlook as growth continues, labour markets tighten and geopolitical crises calm.
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The vexed battle to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continues amid risk aversion, economic weakness, new regulations and banks’ balance-sheet repair. Here is a round-up of Euromoney's recent coverage.
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Euromoney explores bond liquidity and investigates the winners and losers.
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What has Trump's presidency meant for banking and financial markets? Unsurprisingly, things haven't gone as expected.
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After disastrous fourth-quarter results, Société Générale’s growth and profitability targets lie in tatters. Read on for a guide to Dominic O’Neill’s report on Séverin Cabannes’ efforts to refocus the corporate investment bank he leads, and whether or not this can recoup the group’s credibility.
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Tired of paying what they view as exorbitant fees to the incumbents, some large US brokers, banks and financial services firms have now decided to take the US equity exchanges on at their own game. The names involved and the amount of order flow that they now control mean that – this time – it could just work.
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More than 2,000 private bankers took part in the 2019 Euromoney private banking survey. See who’s up and who’s down globally, regionally and by country.
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Euromoney Magazine has charted the birth, growth and maturity of the global private banking industry over 50 years. This special report is the distilled essence of five decades of innovation and change. We look at how private banking has evolved, and what the future holds for an industry that has never experienced such an explosion of opportunity, in particular in Asia, but has also never faced such fierce competition. See inside for in-depth analysis of the major issues facing the world’s private banks today, and how they can overcome them, from some of the leading lights of the industry. The report also contains the results of our 2019 Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey.
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A recent criminal trial in London has revealed how banking negligence enabled a multi-million dollar fraud at the now defunct oil company Afren. Read on for a guide to Olivier Holmey’s feature in the February issue of Euromoney examining the errors made and what the financial sector can learn from them.
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Voted for by more than 7000 treasury professionals, find out which banks rank top in the Euromoney Trade Finance Survey 2019
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In each month of our anniversary coverage, we highlight the themes and markets that have defined the past five decades
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What will Brexit mean for the UK, and for the rest of the EU? Bankers, traders, corporates and economists prepare for the economic impact of Brexit.
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Euromoney investigates how the relaxation of western sanctions on Iran – dubbed the world’s most lucrative closed economy – will jump-start trade and capital flows from Europe to the Gulf, and plots a vision for the country's banking system and economic transformation, more generally.
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Long years of losses and scandals, and now new regulation, spell a break-up with European banks’ bedrock of support in their retail investors, who have often been their own clients. Read on for a guide to Dominic O’Neill’s story on their split and the deep implications for Europe’s financial sector.
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Investor safety has come under close scrutiny since June, resulting in a small but discernible decline in the global average risk score, halting a four-quarter improving trend.
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The market tremors from the FX-fixing scandal and subsequent probe – triggering a flurry of fines, litigation cases and prosecutions – is set to reverberate for years to come. Euromoney investigates the fallout for global banks and possible reforms.
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On the cover | Editor's letter | Also in this issue
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When will the much-hyped M&A boom in the regional US bank sector become reality?
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European bank chief executives speak obsessively to Euromoney about new and rebooted digital banking arms – read on for a guide to Dominic O’Neill’s in-depth examination of the strategy and rationale behind these projects, and their chances of success.
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More than 1,500 fixed income investors took part in Euromoney’s annual survey. View the full results of the Fixed Income Research Survey 2018 here.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of Europe’s fourth-largest economy as its banking sector stands on the brink.
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Euromoney chose Tidjane Thiam as Banker of the Year 2018: read on for a guide to Peter Lee's feature in the August issue of Euromoney examining the story behind the revolution that Thiam brought to Credit Suisse.
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Euromoney's coverage of the economic and financial fallout from the conflict.
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Euromoney's recent coverage of the eurozone crisis focuses on the macroeconomic, political and banking sector fallout.
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Euromoney’s round-up of the European Central Bank’s CSPP, including the eligibility criteria and process.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of the sector's growth – and where it goes from here.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of the bond markets in Africa.
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Angola, which has recently emerged from civil war, is in the process of building its own identity. A systematic drive towards diversification of the economy away from the oil sector and the process of de-dollarization are pivotal parts of this process. How are banks, the government and locals coping as this transformation takes hold?
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Global risk subsided in the first half of the year, according to Euromoney’s country risk survey, with confidence in Europe maintained and commodity producers benefiting from better terms of trade. Yet with US interest rates rising, and Brexit, Russia and protectionism risks prevailing, investor prospects have more recently become uncertain for the remainder of 2018.
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Euromoney's recent coverage of the hard and soft commodities sector, with a special focus on emerging markets.
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Criminal cartel charges has turned a three-year-old ANZ share placement from being just another reputational headache in Australian banking to something that has bankers seriously alarmed.
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Inside the LIA’s litigious pursuit of Gaddafi-era investments brokered by Western financial institutions as it brings controversial claims against Goldman Sachs, a Dutch asset manager and Société Générale.
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A list of winners of Euromoney’s Middle East Awards for Excellence 2018, as well as detailed citations for all of the winners, is available here.
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The results of Euromoney's best managed banks in Latin America 2018, by country:
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More than 2,000 private banks took part in the 2018 Euromoney private banking survey. See who’s up and who’s down globally, regionally and by country.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of the world's oldest bank.
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Blythe Masters became CEO of Digital Asset Holdings in 2015 after 27 years at JPMorgan, where she was credited as the creator of the credit default swap (CDS). Here is a round-up of Euromoney's coverage of Masters throughout her career.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of macroeconomic, FX, fixed income and equity market trends in the oil-producing economy.
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From rebalancing of the economy and financial reform to the internationalization of the renminbi, Euromoney sheds light on China’s economic challenges amid the global spotlight.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of macroeconomic, FX, fixed income and equity market trends in the Asian powerhouse.
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Voted for by more than 7000 treasury professionals, find out which banks rank top in the Euromoney Trade Finance Survey 2018.
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The Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) aims to make cash transfers between European countries fast, cheap and simple – but the migration process has proved slow, expensive and complex.
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Euromoney's recent coverage of the macroeconomic, FX, fixed income and equity market trends in Latin America's largest – and crisis-beset – economy.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of the monetary and regulatory philosophy of Euromoney's 2012 central bank governor of the year, in his role as the 120th governor of the Bank of England.
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Euromoney's recent coverage of macroeconomic, FX, fixed income and equity market trends in Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of the marketplace lending industry.
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Swap execution facility (SEF) regulations, intended to increase transparency and reduce swap market risk, have been reported to impact market makers’ margins and liquidity, creating wider spreads for end-users. Here, Euromoney follows the CFTC’s SEF regulation timeline, presents market participants’ concerns, and reports on opportunities for doing business.
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On the cover | Editor's letter | Also in this issue
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The risks of investing in developed countries eased in Q3 2017 due to strong economic growth, according to economists and other experts. Several large emerging markets (EMs) also became safer as volatility eased worldwide.
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Find out which companies are rated the best developers, advisors and banks in global real estate in the latest instalment of Euromoney’s Real Estate Awards.
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View the results of almost 30,000 survey responses from treasury professionals, and find out which cash managers get our stamp of approval for the quality of their service to clients.
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More than 2,200 fixed income investors took part in Euromoney’s annual survey. French firms Natixis and SocGen vie with JPMorgan and HSBC for best in class. View the full results of the Fixed Income Research Survey 2017 here.
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The foreign exchange market has long been dominated by a select group of large banks, but Euromoney’s inaugural five-star FX rankings show a different set of banks may be providing the best client service.
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View results of the China Retail Gold Survey here.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of emerging markets, including FX, fixed income and equity market trends.
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From cloud technology to cashless payments, digital currencies to P2P networks, mobile banking to FX robots… financial institutions worldwide are looking to lead technological advances while also trying to keep up with them. And as well as the cost of innovation, many organizations are finding much of their technology budgets focused on dealing with regulatory burdens. Access some of Euromoney's recent coverage here.
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For almost 50 years, Euromoney has been the leading publication for covering the growth of international finance. Over the past 12 months its coverage has included interviews with close to 100 bank CEOs, ministers of finance and central bank governors around the world.
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Euromoney’s latest Country Risk Survey shows a gradual rebalancing of risk scores this year, as the aftershocks of the global banking and sovereign debt crises wear off, political risks tied to the European electoral cycle fade, and capital access improves for EMs.
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For almost 50 years, Euromoney has been the leading publication for covering the growth of international finance. Over the past 12 months its coverage has included interviews with close to 100 bank CEOs, ministers of finance and central bank governors around the world.
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For almost 50 years, Euromoney has been the leading publication for covering the growth of international finance. Over the past 12 months its coverage has included interviews with close to 100 bank CEOs, ministers of finance and central bank governors around the world.
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The Euromoney Awards for Excellence, now in its 26th consecutive year, were the first of their kind in the global financial For almost 50 years, Euromoney has been the leading publication for covering the growth of international finance. Over the past 12 months its coverage has included interviews with close to 100 bank CEOs, ministers of finance and central bank governors around the world.
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For almost 50 years, Euromoney has been the leading publication for covering the growth of international finance. Over the past 12 months its coverage has included interviews with close to 100 bank CEOs, ministers of finance and central bank governors around the world.
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For almost 50 years, Euromoney has been the leading publication for covering the growth of international finance. Over the past 12 months its coverage has included interviews with close to 100 bank CEOs, ministers of finance and central bank governors around the world.
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For almost 50 years, Euromoney has been the leading publication for covering the growth of international finance. Over the past 12 months its coverage has included interviews with close to 100 bank CEOs, ministers of finance and central bank governors around the world.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of the CHF since the Swiss National Bank removed its currency floor with the euro, plus choice archive material.
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Probably the single most controversial post-crisis piece of financial regulation, the Volcker rule has been blamed with hampering liquidity and has been criticized as virtually unenforceable. Now, US lawmakers have the rule in their cross hairs.
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A list of winners of Euromoney’s Middle East Awards for Excellence 2017, as well as detailed citations for all of the winners, is available here.
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We explain the FSB's total loss-absorbing capacity requirements for global systemically important banks (G-Sibs).
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More than 2,000 private banks took part in the 2017 Euromoney private banking survey. See who’s up and who’s down globally, regionally and by country.
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Call it what you will – currency war, competitive devaluation, currency manipulation, currency intervention – but central banks are knee-deep in the trenches as they battle to lower their exchange rates and boost their economies.
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Scale is important in cash management, but it is not everything. For clients it is the people, the services and the products that count. Often the best-in-class are regional specialists rather than the global giants, as Euromoney’s unique Five-Star Cash Manager analysis shows.
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The survey is designed to give our readers valuable information on the global trade finance market and the opportunity to rank trade finance providers across a selection of categories and an overall global ranking of providers as rated by their clients.
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- Shayne Elliott is managing ANZ’s retreat, if not withdrawal, in Asia
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Argentina’s ground-breaking return to the bond markets captured the headlines, but finance minister Alfonso Prat-Gay’s credibility and rapid reactions have played a vital role in its restored standing.
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Pakistan’s central bank governor Ashraf Wathra has played a crucial role in boosting the country’s financial credibility among the international community. Locals now hope to reap the benefits in both banking and capital markets.
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The calming of the political shock of Brexit, with oil prices now receiving Opec support, is preventing global risks from worsening, yet with a referendum looming in Italy, elections in the US and Europe to come, not to mention frail banks and several countries mired in difficulties, it might be the calm before another global storm.
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View the results of almost 35,000 survey responses from treasury professionals, and find out which cash managers get our stamp of approval for the quality of their service to clients.
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Winners of Euromoney’s latest survey of the best managed companies in Asia needed to demonstrate environmental and social credentials.
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Find out which companies are rated the best developers, advisors and banks in global real estate in the latest instalment of Euromoney’s Real Estate Awards.
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Find details of all the winners of the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2016 here.
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View the full results of the Fixed Income Research Survey 2016 here.
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Euromoney highlights six of the strongest key innovations in Islamic finance from the last 12 months.
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Country risk scores for many of the large emerging markets (EMs) continued to fall in the first months of the year. Risk scores have now reached levels that do not preclude another global shock if China hits the skids.
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Extended results can be viewed here.
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Political instability, falling commodity prices, central-bank policy uncertainties and conflict were the principal negative risk factors for investors to contemplate at the turn of the year, as China’s troubles were brought into focus by another round of financial volatility.
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Euromoney Country RiskEuromoney Country Risk experts believe drastic change is in the pipeline for Argentina — but its newly elected government has a fight on its hands to push through economic reforms.
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Questions of cash: From global universal banks to regional aspirants, transaction services has become a core part of the post-crisis offering.
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China’s risk score fell 1.5 points, to below 60 out of 100, for the first time in almost two years in Q3 2015. With Brazil in freefall and a US interest-rate hike on the cards, investor risk is rising for many – but not all – emerging markets (EMs), complicating portfolio selection.
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View the results of 27,000 survey responses from treasury professionals.
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In all the debate about the future of green bonds, the voice of investors has rarely been heard. But the results of a Euromoney survey show they have a clear message for issuers and the banks that lead manage their deals: they want better impact reporting, more corporate bonds, and they don’t want bonds to price through the curve. Give them that, and a sustainable, credible, sizeable and demand-driven market is there for the taking.
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Euromoney’s Best China Cities survey uses a combination of executive opinion (qualitative ratings) with hard data (quantitative data) from various sources in the market, across a variety of categories, to produce an authoritative ranking of the best cities in the country.
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Mauricio Cárdenas, Colombia’s finance minister, has been named Euromoney’s Finance Minister of the Year for 2015.
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Mauricio Cárdenas’ fiscal credibility and investment plans have bolstered the country’s defences amid the emerging market rout, while boasting the best economic growth in the region.
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Central Bank of Russia governor Elvira Nabiullina is using orthodox but painful policy measures to combat the oil- and sanctions-driven storm that is ravaging the economy.
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To recognize the increasing importance of corporate social responsibility, Euromoney reveals the winners of its inaugural Achievement in CSR Awards.
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Find out which companies are rated the best developers, advisors and banks in global real estate in the latest instalment of Euromoney’s Real Estate Awards.
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What links China Telecom, CEZ, Fabella, Emirates NDB and Sanlam? They are the companies analysts rate as the best managed in the core emerging market regions.
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The breakdown of the eurozone's market functioning has imperiled the ECB's monetary policy, the cross-border banking business model and economic convergence. Euromoney investigates the economic, capital market and policy fallout.
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Subscribers have full access to the results.
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Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence cover more than 20 global product categories, best-in-class awards in all regions and the best banks in close to 100 countries around the world. The full results are available here and are accessible by subscribers.
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Euromoney’s Best borrowers capture the most important names and trends seen across the globe during the past 12 months.
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Find out who the best fixed-income issuers are, as nominated by investors. Under the categories of issuance strategy, credit quality and investor relations, this Euromoney global research survey brings you exclusive insight into who is at the top of this competitive market. Respondents also nominated their top three credit-research teams or individuals across the same categories.
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View full results from Euromoney's 37th annual survey of liquidity consumption within the global FX markets.
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The growth and globalization of Islamic finance over the past decade has been a rare success story for the financial industry. Here, Euromoney examines the challenges the sector faces to rise to the next level. Throughout the section, we highlight the banks, advisers, issuers and companies that are moving the industry forward, in Euromoney’s inaugural Innovation in Islamic finance awards.
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Emerging markets (EMs) with fiscal and external imbalances, vulnerable to capital outflows – including oil and other commodity producers struggling to balance their budgets – are among the 72 sovereigns downgraded since the end of 2014 by more than 440 economists and other country-risk experts.
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Euromoney reports on the ECB's bid to reflate the eurozone through quantitative easing.
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Euromoney looks at the smart people and smart firms attempting to reshape finance.
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Country risk survey monitoring political and economic stability of countries around the globe.
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The survey is designed to give our readers valuable information on the global trade finance market and the opportunity to rank trade finance providers across a selection of service categories and an overall global ranking of providers as rated by their clients.
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Overall results Best research provider overall
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Recognising wealth management industry leaders in client services, products, and back office technology.
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Mario Draghi hopes that his ABS and covered bond private sector purchase programmes will be the fillip to economic growth in Europe that has so far eluded him. Read Euromoney's in-depth coverage of the background to the issues, what the plans are and why they are unlikely to work.
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The latest results from the Euromoney Country Risk survey point to an unprecedented rise in risk across almost all geographical regions since June, with emerging markets (EMs) taking the biggest hit as doubts over China, the eurozone and US liquidity support weigh heavily on experts’ evaluations.
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Espírito Santos and Queiroz Pereiras: Duel of two dynasties
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India needs a litany of reforms to unshackle its stalled capitalist project. Euromoney speaks with the country's central bank governor Raghuram Rajan about his reformist battle and investigates the outlook for the banking system.
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RBI’s Rajan sounds alarm over breakdown in global coordination
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Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan’s tough monetary medicine combatted the storm ravaging the deficit-ridden economy in the recent emerging market crisis. Now, he is battling vested interests to arouse a sleepy financial system for over one billion people.
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View the results of a record 28,000 survey responses from treasury professionals.
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Mexico’s finance minister is the rarest of breeds in the current global economy. He is delivering reform-driven economic growth
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In our September edition, Euromoney investigates what's behind the M&A market boom, and looks into the risk that retail brings to the high-yield corporate bond market.
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Sponsored research guide
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In our September edition, Euromoney explores the banking and capital-market landscape in emerging Europe, including sanction-laden Russia’s courtship of Asia, corporate debt issuance in the region, Turkish banking and an interview with one of Russia’s most independent billionaires.
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In our September edition, Euromoney explores the challenges and opportunities for some of the world’s leading financial institutions in the Middle East, including a special investigation into Iran’s tentative economic and political rehabilitation in the eyes of international markets, Lebanon’s economy, UAE-India ties and Saudi Arabia’s equity-market revolution.
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Euromoney's regional 'Best Company' rankings are based on a survey of market analysts at leading banks and research institutes across the globe who give their opinions on which companies they think are best in a region across various categories and sectors.
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The survey is a measure of overall service quality for gold investing for individuals in China.
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The latest results from the ECR survey show emerging markets (EMs) becoming riskier during the first half of this year, in contrast to the increasing safety offered by developed countries across the G10 and an improving eurozone.
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Celebrating 90 years of banking in Mongolia.
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Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence cover more than 20 global product categories, best-in-class awards in all regions and the best banks in close to 100 countries around the world. The full results are available here and are accessible by subscribers.
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Euromoney has been covering transaction banking for many years, but this is the first time we have published an annual transaction services guide, reflecting our enhanced focus on and coverage of a business area that is crucial to banks and their clients.
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Find out who the best fixed-income issuers are, as nominated by investors. Under the categories of issuance strategy, credit quality and investor relations, this Euromoney global research survey brings you exclusive insight into who is at the top of this competitive market. Almost 2,000 respondents also nominated their top three credit-research teams or individuals across the same categories.
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The world’s largest borrowers in the global debt capital markets have rated the products and services offered by the biggest deal arrangers. Pricing and distribution, team coverage, secondary-market support and issuer research are all covered in the survey, brought to you by Euromoney. With a 25% increase in respondents this year, the market insight offered is better than ever.
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From sovereigns to non-bank financial institutions, the results of Euromoney’s Best Borrowers survey brings you the most important names and trends from all over the world during the past 12 months. Almost 1,000 investors were asked to nominate their top three borrowers in each category based on issuance strategy, credit quality and investor relations.
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Comprised of Sub-Saharan Africa research and Best managed companies in Sub-Saharan Africa surveys
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Turkish operators such as Turkcell, Turk Telekom and TAV Airports dominate Euromoney's latest rankings of the region's best managed companies.
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A chronology of the controversial Barclays-Qatar courtship amid a UK investigation into the capital raising.
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Liquidity in the world’s bond markets has reached crisis point. Investors can no longer rely on banks to provide a crucial intermediary function in secondary markets. It’s now time that investors took responsibility and did something about the liquidity challenge themselves. Failure will be disastrous for global financial markets. Euromoney investigates.
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The rise in global risk witnessed in 2013 continued during the first quarter of this year as experts taking part in Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey reassessed the investment prospects of EMs versus their developed-country counterparts.
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Published in conjunction with: The Republic of Bashkortostan
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Euromoney Country RiskPublished in conjunction with Euromoney Country Risk and the Central Bank of Barbados
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Euromoney’s deals of the year for 2013 show that, despite prolonged periods of market uncertainty, smart issuers and their advisers managed to get some remarkable things done.
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Global risk continued to rise in 2013, according to the latest results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey. Gloomy analysts remain cautious on the eurozone and the potential impact of the withdrawal of US monetary stimulus on capital flows to emerging market economies.
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Euromoney’s annual Asia company ranking is based on a survey of market analysts at leading banks and research institutes in Asia.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises are meant to be the machine that drives Europe’s growth-free markets to recovery. But each country’s environment for SME funding remains even more disparate than their economies.
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Euromoney explores the changing face of Russian finance, with a new generation of firms competing with established players in a crowded investment-banking scene. Coverage includes macro risk, Sberbank's investment-banking dynamo, Renaissance Capital's great expectations, the consumer-banking boom and the commodities cycle.
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Published in conjunction with Bradesco and Banco Itaú
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Euromoney’s annual survey invites investors to rate the quality of bank research on Middle Eastern equity and debt bearing in mind overall performance and accuracy.
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More than five years on from the credit crunch that shook the world to its core, tail risks continue to undermine investor returns, according to the latest quarterly results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the finance minister of Singapore, has been named Euromoney’s Finance Minister of the Year 2013.
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Agustín Carstens, the governor of the Bank of Mexico, has been named Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year 2013.
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This is the most comprehensive guide to the cash management arena in the market.
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An in-depth look at the state-owned sovereign wealth funds that are now dominating the attention of the world's financial markets. Read Euromoney's unrivalled guide to the different strategies and investment styles of these hugely important funds – and learn how investment banks are trying to maximise their business with them.
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Agustín Carstens is an orthodox central banker in an increasingly unorthodox world. Inheriting an impressive legacy, he has continued the Mexican central bank’s inflation-targeting work while keeping a pragmatic eye on growth. Growth potential is almost unrivalled and Carstens seems intent on ensuring that Mexico’s voice is heard in a new, multi-polar financial world.
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Singapore is shifting its growth model from population-driven to productivity-driven expansion, while maintaining its status as an innovative trade and financial-services hub to diversified export markets. Finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has played an overarching role in the city-state’s economy and serves as the region’s statesman on the international stage.
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Euromoney’s round-up of recent coverage of industry trends, including regulation and capital-raising – the US M&A trail, leverage-ratio fight, tier 1 issuance and the banking union drive – and an investigation into illiquidity in the corporate bond market. We also explore trends in bank M&A in the Middle East, the competitive landscape for lenders in Saudi Arabia, recovering banks in the CEE – and China’s grey financial sector, among other things.
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Published in conjunction with: ABN Amro • BNP Paribas • Citi • RBS • Standard Chartered Bank
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The Czech crown weakened this week after Miroslav Singer, the head of the country’s central bank (CNB), revealed in an interview with Euromoney his controversial support for intervention in the FX market to avoid Japanese-style deflation, in the teeth of resistance from some CNB board members.
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Blackstone is not just the biggest real estate investor in the world today, it’s the best according to the annual Euromoney survey. CBRE and Hines maintain their leading positions as advisors and developers respectively, while JPMorgan dislodges Deutsche Bank as the top real estate bank overall
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35th annual Sibos event; transaction banking convergence; Bitcoin; EU card-fee cap backlash; Sepa looms; Middle East cash management
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Euromoney is the leading source for information about sovereign wealth funds. In April 2006 we were the first magazine to gain access to ADIA, and the facts and figures revealed in that story are used by many other information providers to this day.
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Analysts at leading banks and research institutes are asked to nominate their top companies in each of the Asian countries or sectors they covered, bearing in mind market strength, profitability, growth potential and quality of management and earnings.
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A broad rebalancing of country risk perceptions has taken place this year, according to the June results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.
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Since 1992 Euromoney, the world’s leading financial markets magazine, has singled out the outstanding institutions in finance. Over the years, the Awards for Excellence have evolved with the markets they cover. They now incorporate 25 global awards for banking and capital markets; and awards for the best banks and securities houses in almost 100 countries around the world.
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The liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) is global regulators' ground-breaking benchmark to encourage banks to build-up large quantities of high-quality assets. Thanks to the Basel Committee's U-turn surrounding the timeline for implementation and composition of assets, some market anxiety has been dissipated but fundamental questions remain unresolved.
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From the disastrous initial bailout proposal to predictions of more debt restructuring, Cyprus might not just be synonymous with beach holidays for some time to come.
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The Sub-Saharan Africa survey is comprised of two parts: Best Sub-Saharan Africa research house and the Best managed companies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Euromoney Foreign Exchange survey is the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative annual study available on the FX markets.
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In the run-up to the Asian Development Bank's 46th annual meeting of the board of governors – a four-day event to be held in Delhi, India, starting on May 2 – Euromoney has gathered together the latest Asian news to provide a background to ADB's sessions and seminars.
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With Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey showing improved assessments for much of the Americas and Japan during Q1 2013, it is tempting to believe that the increased global risks seen in recent years are finally abating.
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Philanthropy debate: Investing’s most important evolution?
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Euromoney investigates the market impact of the ECB’s comprehensive assessment of banks, which consists of three legs: identifying portfolios that need scrutiny; the asset-quality review (AQR); and a stress test to be completed by October 2014.
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A decade after Malaysia sold the first global sovereign sukuk, the market is growing from strength to strength, as are the traditional Islamic finance leaders.
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Global capital markets underwent a remarkable recovery last year as bond and equity markets soared, creating a fertile dealmaking environment that few had foreseen at the start of the year. By the end, an impressive volume and variety of capital raisings had hit the markets, highlighting a voracious appetite for risk and complexity that bankers were only too happy to satisfy. Even in M&A.
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The annual Private Banking and wealth management survey provides a qualitative and quantitative review of the best services in private banking, by region and by areas of service. It is an informative guide for high net-worth individuals on the range of professional wealth management service providers that are available.
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All of the G10 countries, with the notable exception of Sweden, saw their risks rise in 2012, according to the latest results from Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey – and not just because of the problems affecting the debt-ridden eurozone sovereigns.
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Published in conjunction with the Ministry of Treasury of the Republic of Poland, Bank Zachodni WBK, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Poland and Energa
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Published in conjunction with the Bolivian ministry of economy and public finances
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Analysts at leading banks and research institutes are asked to nominate their top companies in each of the Asian countries or sectors they covered, bearing in mind market strength, profitability, growth potential and quality of management and earnings.
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Published in conjunction with Bradesco and Deutsche Bank
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Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney’s monetary zeal and flexible approach to an inflation-targeting regime have earned acclaim. Now, he is deploying his charm and credibility to re-tool the global banking industry in the teeth of resistance.
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Euromoney’s annual survey invites investors to rate the quality of bank research on Middle Eastern equity and debt bearing in mind overall performance and accuracy.
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Euromoney's latest coverage of cash and liquidity management amid the shifting sands in the international payments system and market structures.
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Euromoney surveys cash managers, treasurers and financial officers worldwide. This is the most comprehensive guide to the cash management arena in the market.
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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Barclays continue to slug it out at the top of the market-share tables for crisis-hit credit trading. But when it comes to quality over quantity, RBC Capital Markets is the firm to watch.
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Published in conjunction with: Akbank Private Banking - ICBC Private Banking - UBS
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Published in conjunction with: J.P. Morgan • RBS • SEB • Standard Chartered Bank
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Confidence in the Philippines’ economy among the international financial community has never been better, and finance secretary Cesar Purisima has played a key role – tackling the country’s problems and improving its finances.
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Country risk analysts saw increased risk in all of the world’s main economic/geographical regions during the first six months of 2012, according to the Q2 2012 results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.
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Institutional investors tell us which analysts have made the best calls in the past 12 months. An invaluable guide to investors looking to diversify their European portfolios.
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Find out who funding officials at borrowers in the global debt capital markets think are the best at servicing their clients across various service categories, by major currency sectors and by product types.
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The eurozone enjoys its strongest quarter since March 2010 in the latest results of Euromoney’s country risk survey, as European policymakers finally come to grips with the crisis. But lower scores for Greece and France suggest Europe is not out of the woods yet. Andrew Mortimer reports
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The big players continue to dominate a profitable business line. But some investors are looking to challenge their hegemony by moving into market making as well as proprietary risk taking.
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The 2011 guide to Technology in Treasury Management
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For many in the capital markets, 2011 was a year to forget. But it’s in times of crisis that the best advisers come to the fore. Which deals hit the sweet spots over the past 12 months, when markets were like a box of chocolates – you never knew what you were going to get?
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Euromoney subscribers can compare wealth management advisors and wealth management services globally, by firm, by region, by country, and view best local results.
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Country risk scores deteriorate across the eurozone
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Published in conjunction with EFG HERMES
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In September 2005, long before the eurozone sovereign crisis, Euromoney warned that EU countries were using ever-more complex means to hide their real levels of debt.
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Tradition has it that the head of the Federal Reserve is the most influential central banker in the world. Ben Bernanke still is. But Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, is beginning to run him close.
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Australia has struck it rich, and lucky, as it has used its natural resources to benefit from the China spending boom. But the careful stewardship of its treasurer, Wayne Swan, has played a key role in making it the best-performing economy among the world’s richer, developed nations. Not that he is likely to get much credit at home, as Eric Ellis reports.
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LONDON, 20/09/11: Australia’s deputy prime minister Wayne Swan is today named as Euromoney’s Finance Minister of the Year 2011.
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The euro crisis has already resulted in the region’s country risk scores falling by a greater margin than the Asian economies in 1997. That’s before any of the countries involved has actually defaulted. Andrew Mortimer asks: how many years will Europe take to recover?
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Country risk rankings are dropping sharply in the Eurozone periphery and across the entire Middle East, including Qatar which had been viewed as relatively immune to the fallout from the Arab Spring. Andrew Mortimer reports.
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In uncertain credit markets, the value of best-in-market research has risen. The results of our survey of more than 1,800 bond investors shows the competition among the top-rated analysts is greater than ever before.
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Euromoney’s Best borrowers capture the most important names and trends seen across the globe during the past 12 months.
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The world’s largest borrowers in the international bond markets rate the products and services offered by the biggest deal arrangers. Who's best at pricing and distribution, team coverage, secondary market support and issuer research? Find out here.
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A new Euromoney survey shows three established leaders have high market shares and plenty of rivals. Large banks, recovering from their own near-death experiences, have singled out rates as one of the first businesses to fight their way back into. Newcomers are pitching in too.
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The 2011 guide to Technology in Treasury Management
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Euromoney’s latest country risk results reflect political turmoil in the Middle East and the continued uncertainty within the Eurozone. The global recovery is in serious danger of being undermined by a host of financial and political risks. Andrew Mortimer reports.
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The capital markets experienced peaks and trough in 2010. The first quarter saw Greece descending into chaos, the second an EU bailout solution, then relative calm before the bond markets took Ireland down. Deal volumes were down but the year’s top deals set some defining trends. Hamish Risk and Peter Lee report.
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Euromoney subscribers can compare wealth management advisors and wealth management services globally, by firm, by region and by country.
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Brazil is riding high on the economic gains of the past few years, with its membership of the elite of developing nations confirmed. But some have concerns about the direction the country will take under new president Dilma Rousseff.
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Published in conjunction with: Banco Santander Totta -- Espírito Santo Investment -- Caixa - Banco de Investimento
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Turkey emerges stronger from global crisis
Fiscal rule puts budget deficit on autopilot
Turkish banking sets an example
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New sources of investment
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Ireland has led where other European countries have followed during the financial crisis. The Irish government maintains it does not need financial assistance from the EU and the IMF. But the country has a battle on its hands to convince bond investors that it can responsibly manage its debts down in a defined time frame demanded by a European Union battling for its own credibility.
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High volume, low-value cross-currency payments lacking efficiency – until now
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Russia’s finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, steered the country through the global financial crisis. The country emerged not just intact, but enhanced in the eyes of global investors. Now Kudrin faces perhaps his biggest battle of all – keeping a firm hold on spending as an election approaches. By Miriam Elder in Moscow.
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Israel’s resilience during the financial crisis and its aftermath proves that Stanley Fischer is worthy of the respect he commands at the top of the global financial community. Dominic O’Neill reports.
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High profile players, past and present, such as Al Gore, Sinan Al-Shabibi, Stan O’Neal, John Mack, Ken Lewis, Daniel Bouton, Baudouin Prot, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Gordon Brown, Marcel Ospel and Lloyd Blankfein speak with Euromoney.
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Euromoney’s new-look country risk rankings reflect the seismic shifts that have taken place in international investment over the past three years. Markets that were once seen as growth opportunities are now becoming core investment propositions. Poorna Harjani reports.
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2010 ranking of real estate advisors and consultants, developer services, banks, investment managers and property managers.
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After Dubai, funds focus on consumer demand By sector Airlines and Aviation 2010 Entity Score 1 Air Arabia 85 2 Emirates 40
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After Dubai, funds focus on consumer demand
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The fabric of OTC interest rate derivatives trading is being torn by a combination of regulatory and market forces. Who is benefiting from the changes, and who is struggling? Total Derivatives and Euromoney polled the banks to rank the best. Mark Ramsden reports.
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Looking to the future of renewable energy
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Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank win top honours in Euromoney Awards for Excellence; Vikram Pandit of Citigroup wins inaugural Banker of the Year award
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Lifting the veil
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sponsored by: Shanghai Futures Exchange - Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange - Dalian Commodity Exchange - China Financial Futures Exchange - China International Capital Corporation
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The world’s largest borrowers in the international bond markets rate the products and services offered by the biggest deal arrangers.
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THE WORLD’S THREE best borrowers, according to a survey of more than 1,700 fixed-income investors worldwide, are among the biggest issuers in the market.
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A survey of 1,700 leading fixed income investors puts the French bank in pole position for credit research. But Barclays and JPMorgan are close behind.
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Creating opportunity out of crisis; Transaction cost measurement; Regulation and reducing risk; Algorithmic trading; Arbitrage trading; FX trading moves into the next generation
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International cash management review 2010
Review of developments in payment systems 2010
Technology Review 2010
Financial Supply Chain Review 2010
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After a year that turned out better than anyone could have expected, 2010 began with a new bout of nerves on financial markets.
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Even while it began to grow in developed markets, Islamic finance faced key tests. Fears about the enforceability of sukuk contracts in the Middle East might have proved exaggerated, but critics of the industry’s mimicking of conventional finance remain.
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It was meant to be another year of difficulty and potential disaster. But 2009 provided much more than even the arch-optimist could have expected.
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The annual Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey provides a qualitative and quantitative review of the best services in private banking, by region and by areas of service. It is an informative guide for high net-worth individuals on the range of service providers that are available.
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Their problems have highlighted the importance of trade finance in maintaining the flow of goods. Laurence Neville reports on what is being done to sustain a vital economic function
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The global financial climate has forced treasurers to focus on making the best use of resources, wherever they may be. Technological developments are making that easier, but they are also having to cope with a tighter regulatory environment.
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Published in conjunction with: Banco Santander Totta Caixa - Banco de Investimento
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In this special edition, Euromoney announces its annual Finance minister and Central bank governor of the year awards; interviews Paul Tucker, deputy governor Bank of England, who outlines his tough message to banks on capital and other regulatory requirements; and presents its country risk index, containing global economic projections and political risk rankings. Euromoney also comments on the current banking boom and its sustainability, and suggests ways to stabilize the financial system.
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With nearly 30 years’ experience at the central bank, Durmus Yilmaz is the ideal person to steer the country’s financial system through the global credit crisis. Sudip Roy reports.
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The finance minister has enhanced his country’s reputation for sound fiscal policy that takes full account of social justice, while a strong regulatory regime has kept the financial sector out of the chaos. Helen Avery reports.
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2009 ranking of real estate advisors and consultants, developer services, banks, investment managers and property managers.
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With the international economy more volatile than ever, global investors are paying more attention to country risk analysis. Risk looms both where you most and least expect it. In Euromoney’s latest rankings, the US has fallen out of the top 10. Jacqueline Cutler reports.
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Best Asian Companies: Cash is king as Asia’s best companies put their money to work
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With the edge taken off over-exuberant growth in Middle East markets, good quality research is increasingly important. Individuals in both local and international firms are respected for providing this, the vital factor being that they are on the spot.
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It’s not quite back to the good old days for interest rate derivatives, but banks have started to make money again. Total Derivatives and Euromoney polled the market to find out who is best. Mark Ramsden spoke to the professionals.
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HSBC and Credit Suisse win top honours in Euromoney Awards for Excellence; Ackermann receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Financial Markets
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The 2009 guide to Technology in Treasury Management (PDF)
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The world’s largest borrowers in the international bond markets rate the products and services offered by the biggest deal arrangers.
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The latest Euromoney primary debt and new-borrower poll provides a unique insight into what borrowers really think of their underwriters and what investors think of borrowers.
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The impact of the credit crunch spread across the world over the past 12 months. Eastern Europe was badly hit, and the Middle East and Asia could no longer claim to be immune.
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Old-style capitalism is in disrepute. Fans of Islamic finance say it is a model whose ethics give it more sustainability. But optimists will be disappointed to see how far it is part of the global bust. Dominic O’Neill reports.
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The most canny issuers in 2008 were those that realized it was important to get on and raise capital even if the price was not great. Waiting for the market to improve was and remains a potentially fatal strategy. Alex Chambers reports.