Features
Supply Chain Disruptions: Balancing Risk and Resilience
Supply chain vulnerabilities can have long-term consequences, so a country’s resilience to disruptions is a major boon to companies seeking to locate operations.
Author: Gilly Wright
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FLOURISHING IN A FAST-MOVING MARKET | CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Consumer Products Sector
The region’s largest retailers continue to expand, as do multinational companies, in this growing markets.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
HIGH-TECH ENTREPRENEURS ATTRACT GLOBAL ATTENTION
High Tech Sector
Playing to its youthful strengths, the Middle East has enormous high-tech potential but still has room to grow.
Banking
NEW CEO CHANGES PACE FOR STANDARD CHARTERED | NEWSMAKERS
Newsmakers | United Kingdom
The appointment of Bill Winters to replace Peter Sands as CEO of Standard Chartered has been universally welcomed, as the troubled bank saw profits fall by 30% last year compared with 2013 levels.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
McDonalds CEO: Brit Becomes The New “Big Mac”
McDonalds appointment of British-born Steve Easterbrook as its new CEO has both surprised and delighted analysts—concerned by the burger behemoth’s first annual decline in 30 years.
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.
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.
Award Winners
KEEPING IT LOCAL: NADYA TALHOUNI, ARAB BANK
Q&A | Supply Chain Finance
Nadya Talhouni, senior vice president and head of trade finance and cash management at Arab Bank, says MENA banks are well placed to handle business needs previously covered by European banks.