Global Finance was pleased to sit down with Tony Craddock, Chair for the Conference and Director General of the Payments Association to learn more about their work and members and recent developments within the UK payments industry and launch of the National Payments Vision by the UK government.

Global Finance has announced its 29th annual ranking of the World’s Safest Banks.

The full report for 2020 includes the following: World’s 50 Safest Banks, Safest Banks by Country, World’s 50 Safest Commercial Banks, 50 Safest Emerging Markets Banks, Safest Islamic Financial Institutions in the GCC, and Safest Banks by Region (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and Western Europe).

Global Finance’s annual rankings of the World’s Safest Banks has been the recognized and trusted standard of financial counterparty safety for more than a quarter-century. Winners were selected through an evaluation of long-term foreign currency ratings—from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch—of the largest banks worldwide.

Please click the link above for a full description of the methodology used for the World’s Safest Banks rankings and a look at 2020 trends, featuring Global Finance’s editor Andrea Fiano. The link also features exclusive video presentations from some of 2020’s safest banks.

The press releases for all of Global Finance’s Safest Banks 2020 rankings are linked below.

Viral Acharya is currently a professor of economics in the department of finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Acharya received his PhD in finance at NYU and a B. Tech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Until last July, and for the previous two years, he was the deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India in charge of monetary policy, financial markets, financial stability and research. Previously he was also the director of National Stock Exchange of India.

Currently he is teaching Credit Risk for the MBA program of Stern-NYU and on the “Nexus between sovereign and financial risks” for the PhD program. His areas of research are the regulation of banks and financial institutions, sovereign debt and international finance, corporate finance, credit risk and valuation of corporate debt and asset pricing.

Global Finance editor Andrea Fiano spoke with two portfolio managers, Tom Masi and Nuno Fernandes of GW&K Investment Management in New York, which focuses on emerging markets and more specifically on emerging wealth.

Tom Masi is the co-portfolio manager for GW&K’s Emerging Wealth Equity Strategy.  Tom joined GW&K Investment Management from Trilogy Global Advisors, where he launched the Emerging Wealth strategy and served as co-portfolio manager since its inception.  Previously, Tom was with Dominick and Dominick Advisors, a privately held investment management firm, where he was a partner and President of Asset Management. Previously he was at SG Cowen Asset Management and at Kidder Peabody Asset Management. He has a BA in economics from Rutgers University and an MBA in finance from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management and is a CFA charter-holder.

Nuno Fernandes serves as co-portfolio manager for GW&K’s Emerging Wealth Equity Strategy. Like Masi, Nuno joined GW&K Investment Management from Trilogy Global Advisors, where he launched the Emerging Wealth strategy and served as co-portfolio manager since its inception.  Previously, Nuno was with Goldman Sachs Asset Management where he served as a portfolio manager primarily focused in Emerging Markets and Global Financials. He also served as a research analyst with ING Barings Securities, Caspian Securities and Smith Barney covering Latin American financials. Nuno received a BS in Economics from the School of Economics at the University of Porto, Portugal.

See more insights from these two in the May issue of Global Finance.

The Panel Of Experts

Featured Speakers:

Daniel D. Barclay – Managing Director & Head, Mergers & Acquisitions at BMO Capital Markets

Chris Ruggeri – Principal at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP

J. Allen Miller – Partner at Chadbourne & Parke

Moderator:

Joseph D. Giarraputo – Publisher and Editorial Director of Global Finance magazine

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: M&A; – challenges and opportunities in today’s volatile market

Chapter 3: Insights on M&A; best practices

Chapter 4: Managing M&A; transaction costs

Chapter 5: Q&A; – Will the BP disaster emphasize environmental risks in M&A;?

Chapter 6: Q&A; – What are the major threats to the current economic recovery?

Chapter 7: Q&A; – Cross border transactions and accurate valuations

Chapter 8: Q&A; – M&A; and use of earn-outs

Chapter 9: Q&A; – Costs of cross-border transactions VS domestic transactions

Chapter 10: Q&A; – Different approaches to compensate consultants, bankers, and lawyers

Chapter 11: Q&A; – How to learn from mistakes in M&A;

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Daniel D. Barclay

is a managing director and head of the BMO Capital Markets Canadian M&A; group. He has extensive capital markets and M&A; experience. Daniel’s recent assignments have included advising Tristar Energy on its $2.5 billion merger with Petrobakken, Progress Energy on its $3.0 billion merger with Proex, IESI on its $1.1 billion sale to BFI Income Fund, BP on its integrated oil sands and refining joint venture with Husky Energy, Canetic Energy Trust on its $5.0 billion sale to Penn West Energy Trust, Miramar Mining on its $1.5 billion sale to Newmont, Nelson Petroleum on its $2.0 billion sale to LUKOIL and EnCana on its $1.5 billion sale of its oil pipelines. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets in 2003, he spent a combined 13 years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, where he ran the Canadian Energy group, and at Scotia Capital, where he ran the Power group. Daniel has an MBA from the University of Calgary and a B.S. degree with honors from the University of Alberta.

Chris Ruggeri

is a principal in the Advisory Services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services. She has more than 20 years of experience advising major multinational companies on how to create value and manage risk through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, licenses, and collaboration agreements. She also has worked with companies on plans to attract capital from venture sources in the short-term and from both private and public sources in the long-term. Prior to joining Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, Chris was a principal at another Big Four firm and an associate at NASD, Inc. She spent a year based in Budapest, Hungary, where she advised international investors on investments in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Delaware.

J. Allen Miller

is the head of Chadbourne & Parke’s corporate department, advising public and private companies, private equity funds, hedge funds and other institutions on matters including mergers, acquisitions, investments, corporate governance, securities law, capital markets offerings, restructurings and joint ventures. Allen has extensive cross-border merger and acquisition experience. He has also represented numerous companies and financial institutions in capital markets offerings and financings of non-U.S. issuers. Allen publishes regularly in major law journals and is a frequent speaker at legal conferences and seminars. His honor citations during the past three years include The Legal 500, Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers Latin America – Latin America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire, and a J.D. from Cornell Law School.