2011 Priorities: Serving Clients with Complex Global Needs While it's gratifying that we main- tained a #1 ranking in investment banking fees last year, I'm mindful that league tables do not capture all that we do nor what is necessarily most important to clients. It is the quality of ...
Its principal subsidiary, MLPF&S, one of the largest securities firms in the world, is a leading broker in securities, options contracts, and commodity and financial futures contracts; a leading dealer in options and in corporate and municipal securities; a leading investment...
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In our framework, the first tier involves state actions, and the second tier involves interactions between the state (or subnational units) and firms. In the first tier, at the country level, we identify two forms of economic diplomacy: trade diplomacy, which includes treaty commitments by the ...
Foreign firms in emerging countries are exposed to and must address two types of investment climate constraints: Administrative constraints and control constraints (Asiedu and Lien2004; Bitzenis et al.2012). Drawing upon the World Bank Enterprise Survey (World Bank2013),administrative constraintscan ...
The banking crises, which have occurred both in transition economies and developing countries in the last 15 years, have strengthened conviction about the importance of a stable and well-regulated financial system. For that reason, increased attention has been given to ensuring financial system ...
International retail banks are either completely withdrawing or substantially curtailing their operations particularly at the retail level. Pakistani banks are facing difficulties in maintaining international correspondent banking ties. Pakistan is being edged out of international financial integration. ...
in the Index, mainly because of its status as an entry point for funds into China. In addition to being the regional home for most global investment and commercial banks, private equity funds, large investment institutions, and international legal and accountancy firms, Hong Kong is seeing more...
See also GAO (2008) Foreign investment laws and policies regulating foreign investment in 10 countries, report to the honorable Richard Shelby, Ranking Member, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate (February 2008), p. 22: ‘Of the eight countries with a review process...
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