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Kuwait Takes Action
Striving to shake its oil dependence, Kuwait is opening up to foreign ownership. Will investors bite?
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
MSCI Tells China To Wait, May Reclassify Nigeria
China’s recent efforts to make it easier for global investors to access its enormous stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen were not enough to persuade MSCI to include these “China A shares” in its widely followed Emerging Markets Index just yet.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Parente To Lead Petrobras In Fire Sale
<strong>Brazil | </strong>Pedro Parente, who was appointed CEO of state-controlled oil producer Petrobras on May 19, brings both corporate and government experience to the new role.
Features
Peer Networks For The Nearly Peerless
Clubs offer the ultrarich safe spaces to talk money with financial equals.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Peru’s New President Seeks Unity After Tight Race
<strong>Peru </strong>| Even though Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was elected Peru’s new president by a whisker, his victory was greeted with enthusiasm at home and abroad.
News
Political Mayhem Adds To Olympic Woes
<strong>Brazil </strong>| Despite the optimistic expectations in 2009, when Rio de Janeiro was chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the competition in August is not likely to show Brazil in the best light.
Features
Potential Rivals Team Up
Banks and fintech firms are finding synergy in partnerships that join the former’s market know-how with the latter’s technological wizardry.
Award Winners
Q&A Regulatory Pressure, Demand For Seamless Technology Drive Change
Samir Pandiri, executive vice president and CEO of asset servicing at BNY Mellon, explains how regulations and demand for seamless products are driving innovation.
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Q+A: Collaterals Constant Evolution
Michael Albanese, global head of collateral management at JPMorgan Chase, talks about how collateral management is changing and gaining acceptance in new quarters.
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Q+A: Growing Options For US Investors
Mary Ann Deignan, co-head of global equity capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, explains how her firm approaches depositary receipts.
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Q+A: Innovating With Peer-To-Peer Securities Lending
Paul Fleming, executive vice president and global head of securities finance at State Street, sees securities lenders experimenting to meet the cost of complying with Basel III. banking rules.
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Q+A: New Depositary Receipt Markets
Anthony Moro, head of EMEA depositary receipts at BNY Mellon in New York, sees countries around the world developing their own DRs.