Global Finance

Rapid advances in treasury management software and systems are bringing state-of-the-art financial and risk control facilities to a much wider market. The evolution of Internetbased treasury management services is accelerating as application service...

The Best Emerging Markets Banks CITIBANK Best in the World Best in the Middle East and Africa Best in Latin America HSBC Best in Asia BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT Best in Central and Eastern Europe It's no surprise that Citibank takes top honors again....

Offering a range of services that outclass even the most sophisticated conventional phone system, Internet telephony has finally come of age. Could this be the Net's next big wave? Five years ago, using the Internet to make a voice telephone call involved...

Talking for Dollars: Dos and Don'ts for Road Show Presentations Let's assume for a moment that you are the chief executive officer of a company about to launch an initial public offering and are preparing to take your story on the road to investors who...

Assuming the editorship of a long-established international financial and business magazine is a challenge in the best of times. But as we put the finishing touches on "my" first issue of Global Finance, I find that the mission of providing an interesting...

Only the most egocentric of corporate officers could possibly have ignored the financial hullabaloo in emerging markets over the past three years. Certainly, emerging market treasurers-both local and multinational-were forced to sit up and take serious...

The Internet, electronic trading, and global consolidation are having a significant effect on exchanges all over the world. Global Finance's Joseph Giarraputo moderated a roundtable in Boca Raton, Florida, at which industry experts discussed the changing...

Spain's BBVA and Santander are after big game in the Mexican financial services market, with LAS and Canadian banks joining the hunt for banking assets. Mexico's banking market has become a battleground for big international banks, and so far the Spaniards...

Just as the market in the United States seems to be losing some of its wind, Internet stocks in Japan are poised to boom. Japan is trying to catch up again and catch up fast. In some areas, such as the wireless technology offered by iMode,Japan is arguably...

Israel has emerged as the Silicon Desert of the Middle East, an agrarian economy rebuilt by pixels and chips, now emulating California as a cradle for dot-corns and successfully tapping NASDAQ for investor capital. Israel has forged an Internet economy...

Economic reforms and rapid growth in the country's Internet sector are helping drive Poland's impressive transformation. Poland is emerging as the wunderkind of reformed Eastern Europe, with a robust gross domestic product outlook, a banking and telecom...

Investment banks go casual, with mixed results. The great wave of casual dressing sweeping the nation's invest ment banks has some wishing for the good old days-"when bankers dressed like bankers and not beach boys from California," in the words of a...

Twenty-one years ago a man I knew and respected-Masayoshi Ohira-died while prime minister after losing a no-confidence vote instigated by his own party. Liberal Democratic Party leaders took advantage of the felled leader's demise to capitalize on the...