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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Region Feels Effects Of Global Slowdown

MIDDLE EAST Trouble in paradise: Dubai feels the chill of a global recession. Property prices on Dubai’s upscale Palm Jumeirah, an artificial island shaped like a palm tree, fell sharply late last year. Construction work on the Trump ...

Award Winners

Features : World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2009

BEST FX PROVIDERS Global Finance selects the leaders in the world’s biggest financial market. The foreign exchange market has continued to thrive throughout the global financial crisis, providing some welcome profits for beleaguered financial institutions. Average daily turnover has ...

Banking

Features : Best Laid Plans

MIDDLE EAST Determined to avoid repeating past mistakes, oil-rich nations in the Middle East have worked hard to diversify their economies. So far they have fared well, but pitfalls remain. Oil is integral to the Middle East's economic fortunes, ...

Banking

Features : Islamic Finance

BACK TO BASICS ISLAMIC FINANCING The core ethical principles of Islamic finance have protected the industry from the worst effects of the credit crunch. A customer makes a transaction at Emirates Bank in Dubai. One segment of the financial ...

Country Report

Features : Balancing Act

COUNTRY REPORT / TURKEY Turkey’s Islamist government has narrowly avoided a constitutional crisis, but it is still treading a fine line in its quest for economic progress. When Turkey’s constitutional court dismissed a move in July to outlaw the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : GE And Abu Dhabi Form $8 Billion Joint Venture

MIDDLE EAST Bright future: NYSE deal boosts Doha market. General Electric of the United States has formed an $8 billion joint venture with Mubadala Development, a sovereign wealth fund based in Abu Dhabi, to invest in emerging markets ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Investor : Global Investment House Issues First Kuwaiti Drs

DR NEWS Global Investment House, an asset management and investment banking company operating in 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has become the first Kuwait-based company to issue depositary receipts. The issue of 35% ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: “Green” City Rising Near Abu Dhabi

MIDDLE EAST Sustainable development: Abu Dhabi plans to create an eco-friendly city. Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, the world’s third-largest oil exporter, is building a $22 billion carbon-neutral city near its international airport. Known ...

Banking

GCC Report : Inflation Stalks The Gulf

REGIONAL REPORT: GCC / ECONOMIC UPDATE Currency pegs could come unglued as the region’s economies heat up. Just when it seemed that it couldn’t get any better for the oil-rich countries of the Gulf Cooperation ...

Banking

Features : Sharing In Risk And Reward

SECTOR REPORT / ISLAMIC FINANCE The range of Islamic finance techniques is growing rapidly, but some are concerned that the most innovative products may be flouting shariah principles. While conventional financial markets are still reeling from the credit crunch, ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards: Islamic Financial Institutions

ANNUAL SURVEY / ISLAMIC FINANCE Global Finance selects the winners in a fast-growing area of finance that combines investing according to the tenets of Islamic law with modern financial products and systems. Islamic finance is a system of ethical ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : India’s Big Bank Merger Could Be First Of Many

Mergers & Acquisitions HDFC Bank and Centurion Bank of Punjab have agreed to the biggest merger in Indian banking history, valued at about $2.4 billion. It is likely the beginning of a wave of M&A; deals in the ...