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Q&A with Vinod Madhavan, Head, Transactional Products & Services for Standard Bank Africa

Vinod Madhavan, Head, Transactional Products & Services for Standard BankAfrica at SIBOS 2016 Geneva talks with Global Finance Editor Andrea Fiano.

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Ramana Kumar Managing Director, Head: GTB Business Product Management of NBAD Abu Dhabi

Ramana Kumar Managing Director, Head: GTB Business Product Management of NBAD Abu Dhabi at SIBOS 2016 Geneva talks with Global Finance Editor Andrea Fiano.

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Ulf Noren, Global Head, Cash and Sub Custody Sales for SEB

Ulf Noren, Global Head,Cash and Sub Custody Sales for SEBat SIBOS 2016 Geneva talks with Global Finance Editor Andrea Fiano.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

25 Best-Performing Companies In Africa 2016

The prolonged downturn in oil and other commodity prices has pushed petrochemical and mining firms out of the Global Finance rankings of the best-performing companies in sub-Saharan Africa this year.

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Adidas Favors Outside Track

Will bringing in an outsider revive the brand with fresh insight or cause it to stumble on the turns?

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Africa Seeks To Develop Agriculture

With a wealth of cultivable land, Africa seeks to develop agriculture.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Africa Still Growing, Despite Slump

What has changed in Africa in the past year? The precipitous drop in commodity pricesthreatened the progress made during two decades of tremendous growth, driving diversification efforts.

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Africa Supplement 2016 | Table Of Contents

Our annual special coverage focusing on sub-Saharan Africa.

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African Banking: Innovation And Its Limits

Africa's enormous potential for growth is hampered by its citizens'lack of access to banking.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

African Debt Loads To Grow Again

Foreign-currency bonds offer needed resources but come with heavy risks.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Agribiz Mergers Raise Food Security Issues

A series of proposed megamergers in the global agrochemicals and seed industries—capped by Bayer's record $66 billion cash bid for Monsanto—raise fears ofa pricing monopoly in the farm-supply industry and threat tothe global food supply.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Barclays Sells Down Africa Stake

UK-based Barclays has reduced its shareholding in Johannesburg-listed Barclays Africa from 62.3% to 50.1% this year and is believed to be seeking to reduce that stake further to around 20%.