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Economics, Policy & Regulation

Barclays Sells Down Africa Stake

UK-based Barclays has reduced its shareholding in Johannesburg-listed Barclays Africa from 62.3% to 50.1% this year and is believed to be seeking to reduce that stake further to around 20%.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Tax Clampdown Looks Beyond Apple

The EU hit Apple with a tax bill, but it's not the only company in regulators' sights.McDonalds, Facebook, Google and Amazonare being called on the carpet about tax practices too.

Award Winners

World’s Best Corporate Bank: On Leveraging Digital

Yann Gérardin, head of corporate and institutional banking, talks abouthow BNP stays ahead in serving corporate and institutional clients.

News

Pots Of Gold, Leprechauns Or No

Ireland | Ireland has been a eurozonegrowth powerhousein recent years, and remains strong, despite Brexit.

Banking

Asia: More Wealthy, Fewer Wealth Managers

While Asia recently pulled ahead of the West as home to wealthy individuals, some private banks are pulling out, leaving the field to nimble local rivals and committed global Goliaths.

Banking

Scandal And Risk Drive Private Banks Out Of Russia

Facing reputational risk and poor prospects, private banking operations are bailing on Russia and encouraging its wealthy to park their assets offshore.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

UK Could Exit Brexit

Britain might not leave the European Union after all. A lot of things have to happen to agree on a divorce that many seem to have changed their minds about.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corruption: Offer Jokes Instead Of Bribes

Management | Corruption At the anticorruption summit held in London last month, world leaders pledged to fight tax dodging, boost transparency and redouble efforts to confiscate and repatriate stolen assets to many of the world’s poorest countries.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Growing Pirate Party Channels Populist Fury

Iceland The Panama Papers’ revelation that Iceland’s prime minister had offshore interests, including claims on Icelandic banks, caused outrage in this naturally volcanic island state.

News

Star Finance Minister Feels The Heat

He has been called a “rock star” in Portugal’s popular press.

Banking

International Investors Decry Portuguese Bank Bail-In

Capital Markets | Fixed Income A bail-in provision, which places the onus on bondholders and other investors to write down their holdings in the event of winding up a troubled financial institution within the European Union, came into effect on January 1, 2016.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

New Lending Rules To Help Ukraine

The International Monetary Fund decided last month to alter its long-standing policy of not lending to countries with arrears to official creditors—national governments or agencies they sponsor—thereby enabling it to continue lending to Ukraine should it fail to repay on time a $3 billion bond due to Russia.