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.
Author: Tiziana Barghini
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
COLOMBIA’S ECONOMIC SUNNY SKIES MAY CLOUD OVER
COLOMBIA<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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<br />
Conservative Varela surprises with progressive social agenda.<br />
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.<br />
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
SHARE BUYBACKS THE DARLING OF WALL STREET
Despite a pause in February, when the number of share purchase authorizations declined by 32% over the same period a year ago, share buybacks are still very popular on Wall Street.
Features
Dangerous Liaisons: How Sovereign Debt Weighs on Eurozone Banks
In the summer of 2012, when the eurozone crisis was breaking bad and Spanish banks were heavily hit by the burst of a real estate bubble, Europe set up a mega-loan to the Spanish government to help out its most-in-need financial institutions.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Middle East Capital Markets: GCC Triumph
MIDDLE EAST 2014 SUPPLEMENT By Tiziana Barghini Stock markets in GCC countries, in particular Dubai and Abu Dhabi, have capitalized...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Brazil, India, South Africa, Most Affected By Fed Tapering
February 3, 2014 As the US Federal Reserve Board slowly moves away from the expansionary monetary policy it has pursued...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Bernanke: In Praise of Bernanke
Bernanke: The Visible Hand For Ben Bernanke, a rocky eight-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is ending...