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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CHINA, THE RENMINBI AND THE WORLD

Market Report | China The globalization of China’s currency continues at a rapid pace, as regulations ease cash pooling, renminbi trade finance accelerates, and the dim sum bond market goes gangbusters.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS TOP THE NEW PRESIDENTS AGENDA

Newsmakers | Sri Lanka “The first 100 days of Sirisena’s manifesto are devoted to constitutional reforms,”

Emerging & Frontier Markets

COSTA RICA: THE FDI SUCCESS STORY

Frontier Markets Report | Costa Rica Costa Rica has a long history of actively and successfully seeking outside investment. However, the country is dealing with high unemployment and an uncertain fiscal outlook, given that the government plans to ramp up spending on social programs, which could raise the debt level.

Banking

CRISIS PUTS WEAK BANKING SECTOR IN SPOTLIGHT AGAIN

Milestones | Russia During economic crises, Russia’s banking sector has tended to make a bad situation worse; The current crisis appears to be no different.

Award Winners

DECLINING TRADE BARRIERS BOOST ASIAN DEMAND

Market Analysis | Supply Chain Finance Trade agreements, falling commodity prices, economic growth and Basel III are among the issues that are top of mind for many experts in banking and trade finance in Asia.

Editor's Letter

EDITOR’S LETTER: STAGNATION AND SINGLE-ENGINE GROWTH

This may be the Year of the Goat in the Chinese calendar, but so far 2015 looks more like the year of major economic surprises.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EGYPT SEES FDI AS KEY TO GROWTH

FDI Update After four years of challenges in the social, economic and political space, Egypt rolls out the welcome mat for foreign direct investors.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EU TAX REFORM: VAT REGULATION HITS SMES

Milestones | European Union Regulators had Web giants like Google and Apple in their sites when they framed a new value-added tax (VAT) regulation for businesses selling digital products into the European Union

Award Winners

EXPERTISE AND ECONOMIES OF SCALE: TOM HRON, UNICREDIT

Q&A | Supply Chain Finance Tomáš Hron, head of global transaction banking, UniCredit Bank, Czech Republic and Slovakia, on the limits of digitization in trade and the supply chain.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE: BRIDGING THE GLOBAL GAP

Cover Story As economic growth languishes and worries about the specter of deflation mount, much-needed infrastructure development and new sources of project financing could provide a panacea to global growth.

Banking

INNOVATION IN ISLAMIC FINANCE

Market Report | Islamic Finance New structures and issuers and greater standardization are pushing issuance in the global sukuk market.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

JUMBE LATEST FINANCE MINISTER TO JUMP SHIP

Newsmakers | Malawi Friday Jumbe is set to become the latest African finance minister to swap his political ambitions to take up a senior post in a development bank.