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Features : New Avenues For Growth
REGIONAL REPORT / NORDIC BANKING Facing increasing competition, banks within the Nordic region are looking to new products and new...
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Milestones : Banker Bags Peace Prize
BANGLADESH/NORWAY Yunus developed Microcredit while working as an economist in Bangladesh Norways Nobel Institute broke with tradition in October when,...
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Milestones : Banking With A Human Face Comes Naturally To Aub
KYRGYZ REPUBLIC Mikhail Nadel, AUB chairman The mentally disabled children of the Belovodsky psychoneurological boarding institution got new shoes and...
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Milestones : How Microcredit Works
The Microcredit loan mechanism works by providing very small loans that are repayable in weekly installments spread over a year....
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Milestones : Strong Growth Triggers Ratings Upgrades
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC The Dominican Republics beaches are helping to drive tourism growth Strong economic growth and responsible fiscal policies have...
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Newsmakers : New President Finds Early Days Are Hard
MEXICO President-elect Filipe Caldern When Mexicos Electoral Tribunal in September declared Felipe Caldern the official winner of the nations hotly...
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Newsmakers : Tmk’s Financial Sleight Of Hand Might Cause Downgrade
RUSSIA Pumpyansky: Rattling investors The worlds third-largest oil and gas pipe producer Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya (TMK) is heading to market...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Fed’s Pause Signals Return Of Weak Dollar
FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar will resume its long-term declining trend this fall, mainly as a result of indications that the...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Goldman Sachs Leads Equity Underwriters
GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Goldman Sachs was the leading managing underwriter for global equity and equity-related deals in the first half of...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance: Merger Funding Lifts Borrowing Activity
CORPORATE DEBT Companies borrowed 17.3% more in the US bond market in the first half of 2006 than they did...
Banking
Cover Story : 2006 Worlds Best Banks
ANNUAL SURVEY/ WORLDS BEST BANKS As the global economy continues to be challenged by rising interest rates and oil prices,...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story : Central Banker Report Cards 2006
ANNUAL SURVEY/ CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Stagflation is back. Rising prices of oil and other commodities, combined with slowing global...