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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Global And Country Winners
A record year for sustainable bonds, but is the global compact cracking? For sustainable finance, 2024 was the best of...
Author: Justin Keay
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Turkey Turns Green: Q&A With Akbank CEO Kaan Gür
Akbank CEO Kaan Gür offers his views on Turkey’s shifting sustain-ability agenda and why his bank has adapted its ESG...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Central And Eastern Europe
Last year saw Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) make further progress in sustainability, encouraged by a series of climate events—including...
Country Report
Turkey: Bridging Ambition And Reality
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitious dreams include building Turkey from “regional economic centre into global economic powerhouse” and boosting it...
Transaction Banking
GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2025: Global, Regional And Country Winners
Amid consistently high geopolitical tensions, a shifting interest rate environment in developed and developing economies, and the increasing threat of...
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World’s Best Private Banks 2025: Central & Eastern Europe
Macroeconomic growth raises investment interests. After a brutal 2022-2023, which saw economic activity impacted by COVID-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Uzbekistan Minister Laziz Kudratov On Country’s Sweeping Economic Makeover
Central Asia’s fastest growing and most diversified economy is being radically changed by reforms, rising FDI and high growth. Global...
Sustainable Finance
COP29: Aliyev’s Moment In The Spotlight
Oil-dependent Baku seemed like an odd choice to host COP29. But the economy is betting heavily on developing a renewables...
Sustainable Finance
COP29: Climate Finance Takes Center Stage
Recent climate catastrophes have raised the bar for securing funding to address global warming. At COP29, climate finance will be...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Moldova: Direction In Doubt
These are nervous and uncertain times in Moldova and Georgia. In a referendum on October 20, Moldovans formally enshrined the...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Central Banker Report Cards 2024: Europe
Belarus Pavel Kallaur: N/A With Belarus’ economy increasingly integrated into that of Russia, it makes perfect sense for the National...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Managing Economic Balance: Q&A With Hungary’s Central Bank Governor György Matolcsy
György Matolcsy, governor of Hungary’s central bank (Magyar Nemzeti Bank), reflects on his second term and speaks about plans to...