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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Debt
Debt markets were busy last year, but 2025 is off to a slow start as issuers take a wait-and-see approach....
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: M&A
After two muted years, 2024 didn’t quite meet expectations; hopes for a busy 2025 are already wobbling. Persistent inflation and...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Infrastructure
The infrastructure sector is fertile ground for dealmakers, as producers around the world seek to expand. Throughout 2024, the infrastructure...
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Expanding in Africa: How Egypt’s CIB is Pursuing Cross-Border Growth
Looking beyond its home market in Egypt, Commercial International Bank’s (CIB’s) Islam Zekry, Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Board Member, reveals the bank’s vision to be a key financial partner for African economic expansion. To do this, it is leveraging Kenya as a strategic hub, while prioritising high-growth sectors and supporting SMEs, corporates and Egyptian exporters.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Bulgaria: Return To Growth
Of late, Bulgaria has been one of the fastest growing economies in southeastern Europe. But foreign investors are looking for...
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Financing The Future: Q&A With Standard Chartered’s Abbas Husain
Abbas Husain, Standard Chartered’s global head of Infrastructure and Development Finance, discusses the rapid pace of change and innovation in...
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Sukuk, Sustainability, And Strategic Growth: Q&A With KFH Capital CEO Abdulaziz N. Almarzooq
Abdulaziz N. Almarzooq, CEO of KFH Capital—winner of Best Investment Bank in Frontier Markets and in Kuwait—shares his outlook on...
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Critical Minerals, Critical Moves: Q&A With BMO Capital Markets’ Ilan Bahar
Ilan Bahar, co-head of BMO Capital Markets’ Global Metals & Mining Group—winner of Best Investment Bank in Metals & Mining—considers...
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Tech can help Asset Managers Manage the Generational Wealth Transfer
Hyundai Motor Group has managed to sidestep the Trump administration’s tariff threats. All it cost was $21 billion. The South...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Hyundai Agrees To Deal To Avoid Trump’s Tariffs
Hyundai Motor Group has managed to sidestep the Trump administration’s tariff threats. All it cost was $21 billion. The South...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Klarna IPO Could Redefine Payments Market
Fintech giant Klarna has filed a registration statement to the SEC to propose an IPO but has put the process...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Google Cloud Eyes Wiz Purchase
Pending regulatory approval, Google plans to acquire multi-cloud security platform provider Wiz in an all-cash deal worth $32 billion. Once...
Banking
Making Record Profits: Emirates NBD Group CEO Shayne Nelson Q&A
Shayne Nelson, group CEO of Emirates NBD, Dubai’s government-owned bank and one of the largest banks in the Middle East...
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Salah Al Fulaij, CEO-Kuwait at National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), discusses Kuwait’s path toward economic and banking reform and NBK’s...
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Tapping Growth Potential: NBK CEO-Kuwait Salah Al Fulaij
Salah Al Fulaij, CEO-Kuwait at National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), discusses Kuwait’s path toward economic and banking reform and NBK’s...