Tiziana Barghini, Author at Global Finance Magazine

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Banking

UPSTART BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK TAKES ON THE IMF

THE BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa now have something more in common than rapidly developing economies that have recently stalled. In July they gave life to the New Development Bank (NDB), the first multilateral institution controlled by developing countries.

Features

Investors Await Saudi Exchange Access

Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) said in July that,Inshallah, it will open its $560 billion stock market to foreign financial institutions in the first half of next year.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

COLOMBIA’S ECONOMIC SUNNY SKIES MAY CLOUD OVER

COLOMBIA Juan Manuel Santos’ second term as president of Colombia might prove a bit harder than his first—and not only because he won this election with a lower majority.

Banking

GCC 2014: INNOVATION FROM THE GROUND UP

GCC REGIONAL SUPERSECTION 2014 | INNOVATION Attempts to drive innovation in the Gulf are still at an early stage. But as countries increase R&D spending, the results could have a huge impact on non-oil growth.

Features

NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED

SPECIAL REPORT: LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT BANKING Small, but quite competitive, Latin America’s investment banking markets are upbeat this year, driven mainly by infrastructure growth.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

PANAMA: VARELA BLESSED BY SURPRISING ELECTION RESULT

NEWSMAKERS: PANAMA Conservative Varela surprises with progressive social agenda.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

RATING THROUGH THE CYCLE

We sat down with Fergus McCormick, head of sovereign ratings at DBRS, to discuss the rating agency’s outlook for global markets, sovereign ratings and how the firm differs from its competitors.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Do You Still Remember the Financial Crisis?

Do you remember the 2007-2008 financial crisis? Its daunting impact on the world economy is finally fading away and the US Federal Reserve Board is slowly moving to a less expansionary monetary policy, but the debate on its causes and, more important, on what is needed to prevent similar episodes from happening again is still very much alive.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Author: Tiziana Barghini

UPSTART BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK TAKES ON THE IMF

Investors Await Saudi Exchange Access

COLOMBIA’S ECONOMIC SUNNY SKIES MAY CLOUD OVER

GCC 2014: INNOVATION FROM THE GROUND UP

NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED

PANAMA: VARELA BLESSED BY SURPRISING ELECTION RESULT

RATING THROUGH THE CYCLE

Do You Still Remember the Financial Crisis?

SHARE BUYBACKS THE DARLING OF WALL STREET

Dangerous Liaisons: How Sovereign Debt Weighs on Eurozone Banks

Middle East Capital Markets: GCC Triumph

Brazil, India, South Africa, Most Affected By Fed Tapering