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EM Regional Review: Africa

AT A CROSSROADS By Jonathan Gregson Africa is at the cusp of major change. Whether that change involves greater economic growth and an improved standard of living depends on both internal and external events over the next few years. ...

Banking

EM Regional Review: Asia

WAITING GAME By Anita Hawser Asia is watching closely to see what happens to the West's buckling economies. However, intraregional trade growth and ever-increasing trade between the emerging markets will help cushion any impact. Much of the world’s ...

Banking

EM Regional Review: CEE

WINTER OF DISCONTENT By Justin Keay Although there are some bright spots, many CEE countries face the prospect of another economic downturn thanks to tight European ties. For most countries in the postcommunist world, 2011 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Regional Review: Introduction

FEAST AND FAMINE By Anita Hawser The emerging markets are affected to a greater or lesser degree by what is happening in the developed world. Those countries and regions that are most closely tied to the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EM Regional Review: Latin America

PREPARING FOR THE WORST By Antonio Guerrero Latin American countries are starting to build reserves and diversify economies to brace for a possible global downturn. The question is whether it will be enough to protect the export-driven ...

Banking

EM Regional Review: Middle East

THE ARAB SPRING’S COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES By Gordon Platt Countries in the region are evaluating the economic outcome of social and political upheaval—both the opportunities and the challenges. Commercial International Bank, Egypt’s largest private sector bank, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity/DRs: Groupon Opens IPO Market

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The US market for initial public offerings sprang to life in November, following a two-month drought. The successful $700 million offering by Groupon, which was the largest IPO by ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Europes Debt Plan Missing Detail

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Risk aversion appeared to be creeping back into the markets in early November, as the initial euphoria about the eurozone’s master plan to solve the debt crisis began to fade. ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Global Salon

PARADIGM SHIFT By Vanessa Drucker As part of its Salon series, Global Finance sat down on November 1 with Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making Sense of the Dollar . ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Hopes For Era Of Stability In Kyrgyzstan

MILESTONES: KYRGYZSTAN By Kim Iskyan Late October’s landslide victory of incumbent prime minister Almazbek Atambayev as the new president of Kyrgyzstan may bring a modicum of stability to the country’s tumultuous domestic political environment. Atambayev may favor ...

News

Jon Corzine Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt Jon Corzine, the former governor of New Jersey and once a US senator, believes that a man’s word is his bond. Fallout from MF Global raises concerns over CFTC watchfulness When ...

Banking

Living Wills Improve Banks’ Crisis And Risk Management

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser While the focus at the moment may be on bailing out indebted countries in the eurozone, one of the legacies of Lehman’s collapse is the need for systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) to ...