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Islamic Finance 2015 | Major Markets, Real Reform

Best Islamic Financial Institutions | Introduction Islamic finance is breaking out, as long-awaited regulatory reform takes hold in key nations, boosting transparency and driving new business.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Israel’s Teva Bids $40 Billion For US Generic-Drug Rival

Capital Markets | M&A Pharmaceuticals In what could become Israel’s biggest cross-border M&A deal ever, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries made an unsolicited $40 billion offer to acquire Mylan, a Pennsylvania-based drugmaker registered in the Netherlands with operational headquarters in the UK.

Features

Myanmar | Blank Slate For Foreign Investors

Frontier Markets Report | Myanmar is wide open in terms of investment prospects, and its opportunities are luring investors—despite the risks.

Country Report

New Opportunities For Spanish Political Parties

Country Report | Spain The era of absolute majorities in Spanish politics is over.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Nicola Sturgeon, A Scottish Thorn In David Cameron’s Side

United Kingdom | Many questions are still being asked about David Cameron’s dramatic win on May 7. How did opinion polls, which predicted a tight race between Conservatives and Labour and even a Labour win, get it so wrong?

Banking

Offshore Blues For Private Banking

Special Report | Private Banking Offshore banking, the booking and management of assets outside an individual’s country of domicile, has taken a beating since the financial crisis.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Pension Fund Managers Assailed On Many Fronts

Special Report | Pensions & Benefits Management Combating economic trends, regulators and even demographics, funds are forced to think outside the box.

Banking

Private Banking | Business Is Booming, Challenges Lurk

Special Report | Private Banking The pace of global economic growth may have slowed since the financial crisis, but the creation and concentration of private financial wealth has revved up.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Record Korean Financing Set For Brazil Steel Plant

Capital Markets | Project Finance Brazil’s multinational metals and mining group Vale has signed a $2.1 billion agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Korea.

Banking

Regional US Transaction Banks Walk A Fine Line

Special Report | U.S. Transaction Banking Dealing with the regulatory complexities faced by their larger peers and without some of the flexibility of their smaller brethren, US regional transaction banks are building international partnerships and investing in best-of-breed technology platforms in order to win, and hold on to, corporate clients.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulators Increase Scrutiny Amid Surge In Global M&A

Capital Markets | M&A Antitrust Antitrust authorities around the world are stepping up their merger-monitoring activities amid a boom in cross-border M&A. They’re increasingly requiring merging companies to divest assets to win approval for their deals. In some cases, complex requirements are causing corporates to abandon proposed combinations.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Renminbi | The Goal Of Convertibility

The European Union is still debating the nature of its common currency, the position of non-eurozone EU members like the UK, and the future of stressed eurozone countries like Greece. But the situation in other parts of the world is quite different.