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Blockchain Voyages Of Discovery

Special Report: Fintech As banks rush to find areas where the blockchain can save them time and money while creating opportunities, it’s hard to see exactly how this might shape future banking processes.

News

Branching Out: Adel El-Labban, Ahli United Bank

Despite tightening liquidity in the Gulf banking sector, Bahrain’s largest lender reported robust profits in 2015. After leading a slew of product launches, AUB’s group CEO and managing director believes the bank’s prudent risk management will underpin its expansion. He spoke to Global Finance at the bank’s headquarters in Bahrain.

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Breen Goes Lean Before Mega-Merger

Newsmakers | United States Edward Breen earned his reputation breaking up Tyco, so it’s no surprise that he’s hit the ground running since taking over at DuPont last October as interim CEO, a position made permanent a month later.

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Can New Chinese Regulator Stabilize Markets?

Newsmakers | China Liu Shiyu, who became the new head in mid-February, has an impressive pedigree. But the challenges he faces will require nothing short of mastery.

Award Winners

Capitalizing On Adversity

The best banks see falling stock prices as an opportunity to finance takeovers with debt and sell bank equity to please regulators.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO’s See Big Change Ahead

Management | Technology and Change In the not-so-distant future, they believe, the corporate world will look very different than it does now.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO’s The New Renaissance Men

Management | CFO's A recent report by global consulting firm KPMG was titled, Introducing the Renaissance CFO.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China’s Onshore Bond Market Opens Up

Capital Markets | Fixed Income China’s $7.4 trillion onshore bond market, the third-largest in the world, is opening to foreign institutional investors in the latest step by China to integrate its capital markets into the global financial system.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Dalian Wanda Creates World’s Biggest Theater Chain

Trends | Movies China’s richest man goes to Hollywood and buys it.

Features

Djibouti Aiming High

Frontier Markets Report Djibouti is a small country with ambitious plans, which it hopes to achieve by attracting large amounts of foreign direct investment.

News

Down, But Not Out

Retail sales in the Middle East are susceptible to lower oil prices and falling consumer demand, but international retail chains still view the region’s long-term investment prospects positively.

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Driving Momentum: Shayne Nelson, Emirates NBD

Emirates NBD returned a stellar performance in 2015, but this year looks to be an entirely different proposition. Shayne Nelson, Emirates NBD Group’s CEO, tells Global Finance how the bank plans to drive growth and why consolidation is needed in the UAE banking sector.