Features
Saudi Arabia Dominates Project Finance
Project financing is booming in Saudi Arabia, which leads the Middle East in deals, with a total of eight in 2015, worth more than $13 billion.
Author: Gordon Platt
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Aramco IPO May Be For Saudi Nationals Only
<strong>Capital Markets | Equity Offering</strong><br />
A potential partial privatization of Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, Saudi Aramco, would require the company to remove its veil of secrecy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China’s Economic Reforms Ignite Boom In M&A Deals
<strong>Capital Markets | Mergers & Acquisitions</strong><br />
In an effort to boost the country’s sagging economic growth, China is consolidating key industries, hoping to make them more efficient ahead of eventual partial privatizations.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Grade Corporate Debt Draws Safe-Haven Buyers
<strong>Capital Markets | Corporate Bonds</strong><br />
Demand for investment-grade corporate debt seems insatiable, even as investors shun riskier high-yield bonds.
Award Winners
Turning Challenges Into Opportunities
World trade may be growing more slowly since the financial crisis, yet demand for trade finance is accelerating.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China’s New FX Regime
Foreign Exchange | Capital Markets
The renminbi’s entry into the International Monetary Fund’s basket of currencies, the Special Drawing Rights (SDR), will require China to have a more flexible exchange rate.
Banking
Kuwait Shrugs Off Cheap Oil
Riding a wave of government spending, Kuwait’s financial institutions are thriving despite the drop in petroleum revenues—for now.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Markaz Sees The Silver Lining
Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) has been among the Arab region’s leading asset management and investment banking institutions since 1974. Speaking with Global Finance, CEO Manaf Alhajeri explains that economically challenging times have a bright side: a chance to find value for long-haul investors.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Markets Cheer Fed Rate Liftoff
Monetary Policy | Capital Markets
Casting aside concerns about the strong dollar and weakness in economies abroad, the Federal Reserve achieved an historic interest rate liftoff in mid-December.
Banking
NBK-Kuwait Speeds Ahead
The country’s dominant bank sees future growth coming from the small-business market and from regional customers.
Banking
Signs Point To Peak M&A Following 2015 Surge
Capital Markets | Deal Activity
This could be a record year for mergers and acquisitions, surpassing the 2007 peak in the US and globally. But optimism is waning regarding the outlook for 2016.
Banking
Bernanke Speaks Out In New Book
United States: Former US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke lashed out at what he described as a do-nothing Congress in his new memoir, Courage to Act.