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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Sector Report: Real Estate Finance

REAL ESTATE FINANCING: NEW AVENUES By Vanessa Drucker Real estate projects are getting capital injections from new and diverse sources as traditional bank lending dries up. Banks around the world have become skittish about lending. Although central ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Special Report: Infrastructure Finance

NEW HORIZONS By Solomon Teague Regulation is making it harder for banks to lend to infrastructure projects. New types and sources of funding will be needed to handle a wave of infrastructure development now under way—particularly in the ...

Banking

EM Regional Review: Africa

AT A CROSSROADS By Jonathan Gregson Africa is at the cusp of major change. Whether that change involves greater economic growth and an improved standard of living depends on both internal and external events over the next few years. ...

Banking

EM Regional Review: Middle East

THE ARAB SPRING’S COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES By Gordon Platt Countries in the region are evaluating the economic outcome of social and political upheaval—both the opportunities and the challenges. Commercial International Bank, Egypt’s largest private sector bank, ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The 10%+ Club

COVER STORY: THE 10% + CLUB By Laurence Neville Predicting what countries will be the next growth outperformers is tricky at best. Those firms that back the winners will undoubtedly profit, and the countries that make the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Who’s Who In Foreign Exchange

WHO’S WHO By Gordon Platt Who’s who in foreign exchange. MOHAMED EL AROUSSI Arab African International Bank Head of FX desk Mohamed El Aroussi has been head of the foreign exchange desk at Arab African International ...

Banking

Islamic Finance Goes Global

NEW HORIZONS By Anita Hawser Islamic Finance is growing beyond traditional borders to encompass new markets worldwide. The Islamic finance industry emerged relatively unscathed from the 2008 financial crisis —touting itself as an alternative to the leverage ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: Middle East

BAHRAIN: PROTESTS IMPACT THE ECONOMY By Gordon Platt Political unrest in Bahrain in February and March may have cost the economy as much as $2 billion. New governor at Dubai International Financial Centre Essam Fakhro, chairman of the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: Africa

CLOUDY HORIZONS By Antonio Guerrero While South Africa is attempting to get out from under its recession, countries in sub-Saharan Africa are dealing with the impact of volatile global oil markets and decreased investment from their neighbor to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trade & Supply Chain Finance 2011: Global Trade

REBUILDING CONFIDENCE By Anita Hawser Global trade was affected over the course of 2011 by major disruptions such as the US sovereign rating downgrade, the Japanese earthquake and political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa. Not ...
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