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Global Eagle Entertainment (now Anuvu)

Global Eagle Entertainment, now operating as Anuvu, is an American provider of in-flight entertainment content and satellite connectivity for airlines, created in 2013 and renamed Anuvu in 2021.

Global Financial Centres Index

The Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) is a twice-yearly ranking of financial centers by Z/Yen and the China Development Institute, with New York first since 2018.

Global financial system

The global financial system, also known as the international financial system, is the network of banks, markets, and payment infrastructure through which money moves across borders.

Global Gaming Expo

The Global Gaming Expo (G2E) is an annual Las Vegas trade show for the legal gaming industry, organized by RX and first held in 2001.

Global imbalances

Global imbalances are large, persistent current account surpluses and deficits across countries, peaking at 5.5 percent of global GDP in 2006 and near 150-year highs today.

Global Industry Classification Standard

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is a four-level taxonomy for classifying companies by sector and industry, developed in 1999 by S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI.

Global Infrastructure Partners

Global Infrastructure Partners is a New York infrastructure investment firm founded in 2006 by Adebayo Ogunlesi, known for Gatwick and Sydney airports and acquired by BlackRock in 2024.

Global Infrastructure Partners Emerging Markets

Global Infrastructure Partners Emerging Markets is the emerging-markets infrastructure private equity strategy of Global Infrastructure Partners, whose inaugural fund closed in March 2024 with over $2.1 billion.

Global Investment Performance Standards

The Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) are voluntary standards for how investment firms calculate and present performance, claimed firm-wide and followed by 1,778 organizations in 48 markets as of 2023.

Global marketing

Global marketing, also known as international marketing, is the coordination of a firm's marketing across countries, standardizing some elements worldwide while adapting others locally; the dominant approach is glocalization.

Global Payments

Global Payments Inc. is a Fortune 500 payments technology company based in Georgia serving more than 6 million merchant locations across over 175 countries, and acquired Worldpay in 2026.

Global recession

A global recession, also called a global economic recession, is a synchronized contraction of world economic activity, defined as a decline in world real GDP per capita.

Global Resource Optimization Fund, L.P.

Global Resource Optimization Fund, L.P., formerly Impax Green Markets Fund, L.P., is a Delaware private equity fund managed by Impax Asset Management in London since 2011.

Global Semiconductor Alliance

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) is a Dallas, Texas-based trade association for the semiconductor industry, founded in 1994 as the Fabless Semiconductor Association and renamed in 2007.

Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries

The Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) is a trade agreement, signed in 1988, under which developing countries grant each other tariff preferences.

Global Transport Income Partnership

Global Transport Income Partnership is a Luxembourg master–feeder fund complex formed in 2016, managed by JPMorgan Asset Management, which raised about $1.9 billion from 89 investors.

Global Unichip Corporation

Global Unichip Corporation (创意电子, GUC) is a Taiwanese ASIC design services company founded in 1998 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2006.

Global Wings (铂雅公务航空)

Global Wings (铂雅公务航空) is a Chinese business-aviation group headquartered in Beijing and founded by Zhang Hongchao, providing business-jet charter brokerage, seat-sharing, aircraft management, and FBO investment.

GlobalBees

GlobalBees is a New Delhi-based direct-to-consumer brand roll-up founded in 2021 by Nitin Agarwal and Supam Maheshwari that acquires digitally native consumer brands, reaching a $1.12 billion valuation in 2021.

Globalization

Globalization is the process by which goods, services, capital, information, and people flow across national borders, eroding their economic significance; it has advanced in waves since the mid-19th century.

Globalization and World Cities Research Network

GaWC (Globalization and World Cities Research Network), a Loughborough University research network founded by Peter J. Taylor in 1998, classifies world cities into alpha, beta, gamma, and sufficiency tiers using the interlocking network model of advanced producer services firms.

Globus Medical

Globus Medical, Inc. is a Pennsylvania medical device company, founded in 2003, that makes spinal implants and the ExcelsiusGPS robotic navigation system for spine surgery.

Gloo

Gloo is an American technology company, founded in 2013 in Boulder, Colorado, that builds software and AI tools for churches and faith-based organizations; it went public on the Nasdaq under symbol GLOO in 2025.

Gloria Serobe

Gloria Serobe is a South African businesswoman who co-founded Women Investment Portfolio Holdings (WIPHOLD) in 1994 and serves as chief executive of its financial services subsidiary WIPCapital.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was an American heiress, artist, and fashion designer who turned a $5 million childhood trust into a designer-jeans brand, and was the mother of Anderson Cooper.

Gloryia (格乐利雅)

Gloryia (格乐利雅) was a Shanghai-based chain of high-end one-stop wedding halls founded in 2014 by wedding-industry entrepreneur Shi Jiahao, which collapsed in mid-2025 when its cash chain broke.

Glowork

Glowork is a Riyadh-based Saudi recruitment organization founded in 2011 to place Saudi women in jobs, co-founded by Khalid Alkhudair and valued at US$32 million in 2013.

Glp Capital Partners

GLP Capital Partners, also known as GCP, is a global alternative asset manager focused on logistics real estate, data centers, and renewable energy, formed in 2022.

GlycoEra

GlycoEra AG is a Swiss biotechnology company, founded in 2021 as a spin-out of LimmaTech Biologics, developing extracellular protein degraders for autoimmune diseases; its lead program, GE8820, targets IgG4 autoantibodies.

Glynn Partners

Glynn Partners is a series of Delaware venture capital limited partnerships managed by Glynn Capital Management, a family-founded technology investor headquartered in Menlo Park, California.