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Economics, Policy & Regulation

Finance Minister Key To City-States’s Revamped Cabinet

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation’s next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People’s Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Funds Respond To New Trends In Commodities Markets

Sovereign wealth funds have expanded dramatically in recent years. High commodity prices and large foreign exchange reserves have contributed to their significant growth in global markets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Companies Prefer Performance-Based Compensation

Executive Pay | Since the global financial crisis of 2008, corporate boards have been under pressure to tie executive pay to performance.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Eni Discovers Huge Natural Gas Reserves At Zohr

Eni, the Italian energy company that was unsuccessful in finding exploitable hydrocarbons in Cyprus, now has a major find on its hands elsewhere.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Kenya: Can New Central Bank Governor Lock In Gains?

Patrick Njoroge was named governor of the Central Bank of Kenya in June, part of a broader change in leadership at the Central Bank, including a new chairman and second deputy governor.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

State-Owned Companies, Financial Markets & The New Trade Deals

Trends | Sovereign Funds & Trade This summer US Congress passed a law giving president Barack Obama the authority to “fast-track” free-trade pacts such as the multinational Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP), which covers around 40% of trade in American goods and 60% of trade in Asian goods.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

New Zealand Walloped By Slowdown In Chinese Economy

Milestones | New Zealand In June, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand lowered its key cash interest rate a quarter of a percentage point to 3.25%, the first time the central bank has cut rates cut since 2011, citing a combination of deflationary pressure, plunging commodity prices and a slowdown in key export markets like China.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Verizon Seeks Growth And Innovation In AOL Deal

United States | Verizon, one of the largest wireless providers in the United States, announced on May 12 that it will acquire AOL, a leading Internet pioneer and Web content provider, for $4.4 billion.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

ISRAEL | ECONOMIC REFORMS COMPLICATE NETANYAHU’S FOURTH TERM

Newsmakers | Israel Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s success among center-right political parties, which saw him recently elected for a fourth term, may have provided a stable political platform, but international pressure and recent social unrest could see the country change economic direction.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Author: Efraim Chalamish

Finance Minister Key To City-States’s Revamped Cabinet

Funds Respond To New Trends In Commodities Markets

Companies Prefer Performance-Based Compensation

Eni Discovers Huge Natural Gas Reserves At Zohr

Kenya: Can New Central Bank Governor Lock In Gains?

State-Owned Companies, Financial Markets & The New Trade Deals

New Zealand Walloped By Slowdown In Chinese Economy

Verizon Seeks Growth And Innovation In AOL Deal

ISRAEL | ECONOMIC REFORMS COMPLICATE NETANYAHU’S FOURTH TERM

BORN & BRED IN EMERGING MARKETS

STRONG DOLLAR SLOWS INVESTMENT INTO THE US

FDI: OWNERSHIP RESTRICTIONS PUT THE BRAKES ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT