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Deepening Africa’s Financial Markets

Africa | Emerging Markets Regional Review African economies are well on their way to transforming the region’s status from a frontier to an emerging market. The IMF predicts Africa will grow by 5.8% in 2015, up from 5.1% this year, with Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique projected to growth over 8%.

Banking

ECB STRESS TESTS FAIL THE CREDIBILITY TEST

European Banking | Trends The degree to which the recent stress tests of big European banks by EU regulators lack credibility is becoming clear.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EDITOR’S LETTER: REDEFINING EMERGING MARKETS

For many years Global Finance has regularly covered emerging markets and frontier markets. This annual issue of the magazine, which is focused on the EM, goes a bit further. We analyze these markets regionally, but we also question the prevalent definition of emerging markets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET FACES CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAKE OF FIXING SCANDAL

Foreign Exchange | Capital Markets How to take the gaming instinct out of foreign exchange traders has become the order of the day, following last month’s imposition of $4.3 billion in fines on six global banks for manipulating currency benchmarks.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

HUNGARY: PROTESTS FORCE PM TO SHELVE INTERNET TAX

Hungary | Milestones Hungary has witnessed the biggest street protests since the current right-wing government came to power in 2010, against the government’s plans to tax Internet traffic, the world’s first such levy.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

IMPROVING ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY

Asia-Pacific | Emerging Markets Regional Review Structural changes in emerging Asia’s manufacturing-for-export markets are erasing the low-cost advantage.

Banking

ING COMPLETES BAILOUT REPAYMENT

Netherlands | Milestone As a part of the restructuring agreement between ING, the Dutch government and the European Commission, ING agreed to several of what it called “bans,” according to an email sent by a company spokesman to Global Finance

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News & Features Archive

Deepening Africa’s Financial Markets

ECB STRESS TESTS FAIL THE CREDIBILITY TEST

EDITOR’S LETTER: REDEFINING EMERGING MARKETS

FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET FACES CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAKE OF FIXING SCANDAL

HUNGARY: PROTESTS FORCE PM TO SHELVE INTERNET TAX

IMPROVING ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY

ING COMPLETES BAILOUT REPAYMENT

INTERNET BANKING AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE: TREVOR HAEGER, STANDARD CHARTERED

INTERNET BANKING AND INTERBANK PLATFORMS: STEPHEN LEE, DBS

INTERNET BANKING GOES MAINSTREAM: GREG BAXTER, CITI

ISRAELI VENTURE CAPITALISTS FINANCE ARAB START-UPS

KEEPING DATA SAFE: PAOLO DI GRAZIA, FINECOBANK