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INDIA: UNBANKED TO BENEFIT FROM NEW PAYMENT & FINANCE BANKS

Milestones | India The Reserve Bank of India’s recent bid to offer licenses for setting up small finance and payment banks has elicited an overwhelming response, with at least 113 companies entering the fray.

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MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT BANKERS FIND SILVER LININGS

Market Focus | Middle East Investment Banking Although investment bankers remain cautious about Middle Eastern prospects in the wake of falling oil prices, M&A activity and debt issuance remain bright spots.

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SANTANDERS CLOUD GAMBIT: WILL MORE BANKS FOLLOW THEIR LEAD?

Trends | Global Banking On the surface at least, Spain’s Banco Santander and Cloud storage providers do not appear to have much in common.

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SAUDI ARABIA: THE THRIVING BANKING SECTOR

Saudi Arabia | Banking Sector Highly capitalized and boasting healthy margins, Saudi banks are unlikely to feel much fallout from the country’s slowing economy and the impact of low oil prices.

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CRISIS PUTS WEAK BANKING SECTOR IN SPOTLIGHT AGAIN

Milestones | Russia During economic crises, Russia’s banking sector has tended to make a bad situation worse; The current crisis appears to be no different.

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DECLINING TRADE BARRIERS BOOST ASIAN DEMAND

Market Analysis | Supply Chain Finance Trade agreements, falling commodity prices, economic growth and Basel III are among the issues that are top of mind for many experts in banking and trade finance in Asia.

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EXPERTISE AND ECONOMIES OF SCALE: TOM HRON, UNICREDIT

Q&A | Supply Chain Finance Tomáš Hron, head of global transaction banking, UniCredit Bank, Czech Republic and Slovakia, on the limits of digitization in trade and the supply chain.

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INNOVATION IN ISLAMIC FINANCE

Market Report | Islamic Finance New structures and issuers and greater standardization are pushing issuance in the global sukuk market.

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KEEPING IT LOCAL: NADYA TALHOUNI, ARAB BANK

Q&A | Supply Chain Finance Nadya Talhouni, senior vice president and head of trade finance and cash management at Arab Bank, says MENA banks are well placed to handle business needs previously covered by European banks.

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NORTH AMERICA FACES CHALLENGES TO TRADE GROWTH

Market Analysis | Trade Finance The outlook for trade finance in North America appears modestly positive. “Growth will be more in line with global GDP,” says Chris Lewis, executive vice president and group head, international trade services, Wells Fargo.

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SANTANDERS MASSIVE CAPITAL INCREASE: MORE EUROPEAN BANKS TO FOLLOW

Trends | Bank Capitalization As Spaniards returned from the Los Reyes Magos (Epiphany) holiday, Spain’s Santander, Europe’s biggest bank, sold the equivalent of nearly 10% of its capital in one day, raising €7.5 billion ($8.7 billion) in cash and bringing required ratios in line with those of the banking industry.

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WORLDS BEST INSURERS 2015

The 2015 World’s Best Global Insurers were selected on the basis of responses from more than 1,500 readers of Global Finance from around the world, as well as the expertise of the magazine’s editors and reporters.