Global Finance

The city transformed itself for the 1992 Olympics Now it's trying to do it again by fashioning itself as a technological Mecca. At stake is Barcelona's previously successful model of public and private partnership. By Mark Johnson Like an aging diva...

The California power market debacle may be driving some major utilities into Chapter 11, but the massive demand for new capacity will keep the money flowing this year. As recently as November, leading project financiers were gearing up for first-quarter...

Most of the high fliers on Germany's Neuer Markt have crashed and burned after soaring in 2000, just as their tech counterparts on the NASDAQ market have. But there are some glowing embers of life among all those cold ashes. Weisbaden-based ACG continues...

E-Finance experts stress the need for clarification of the added value of the integration of e-finance and traditional finance channels in B2B. Global Finance managing editor Charles Thurston moderates. GLOBAL FINANCE: Will onestop shopping for different...

Beer brewing in Latin America is becoming a more global business as consolidation continues in key countries. Latin America's three most populous nations--Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-also happen to be the region's biggest beer-guzzlers, together accounting...

One of the most creative of recent securitization deals, coming at the end of 2000, took the business where no one had dared-or thought-to tread before: securitizing roast beef sandwiches. The issue is backed by the Arby's franchise system that sells...

Recent scientific break-- throughs and an increased infusion of government funding have given the field momentum. I magine molecular-size machines that traverse the bloodstream to cure diseases, computers the size of a virus particle but a billion times...

Technology is driving the convergence of the world's exchanges into ange single entity, although the US a2d European market leaders are pursuing differe nt tacks. Technology is clearly changing the way the world trades, but it may be several years before...

Online Currency Broker Offers Leverage of 200 to 1 Online foreign exchange brokerage Currency-- Trader.Com has launched a new trading system that will enable its clients to deal directly with one another.The new platform features Java-based "push" technology,...

Asset management firms are hot properties, judging by the multiples of earnings paid last year for the 108 announced mergers and acquisitions in the industry. "The wealth management market in the United States is particularly attractive," says John Temple,...

Internet-enabled integration is lending strategic focus to treasury risk management. Deliverance for the contemporary treasurer or CFO lies arguably in his growing empowerment by technology and analytics-- tools that promise to lift him from the perennial...