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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MASALA BOND PROMOTES INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE RUPEE

India | Capital Markets The rupee realizes international ambitions. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) sold its first rupee-denominated bonds in London in November to attract international investment in India’s infrastructure.

Banking

RUPEE INTERNATIONALIZATION: SAUGATA BHATTACHARYA, AXIS BANK

Q&A | Capital Markets Saugata Bhattacharya is the senior vice president and chief economist at Axis Bank in India.

Features

Recasting India: Entrepreneurship In The World’s Largest Democracy

Book Review Sengupta’s Recasting India envisions India’s real growth drivers as the millions of small entrepreneurs in the country and the "extraordinary enterprise of ordinary people.”

Banking

INDIA: MILLIONS ACCESS BASIC FINANCIAL SERVICES

Milestones | India In partnership with more than 50 state-run, cooperative and private banks, India’s National Democratic Alliance government has launched the world’s largest financial inclusion project to bring 75 million households into the banking fold by the end of January 2015.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

JAPAN AND INDIA OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FUTURE RELATIONSHIP

MILESTONES | JAPAN Japanese prime minister Shinz Abe greeted his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in late August in the city of Kyoto, where the two leaders toured temples and posed for pictures before returning to Tokyo for four days of diplomatic talks.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MODI: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR A NEW INDIA

COVER STORY | INDIA As prime minister Narendra Modi begins his term in office, global market watchers are hopeful that it could signal a sea change for India’s governance, economy and friendliness to business. But most are tempering that enthusiasm with a dose of skepticism.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

INDIA TO LIBERALIZE ISSUANCE RULES FOR DRS

FINANCE & CAPITAL | CAPITAL MARKETS: DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

ANNUAL SURVEY: WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2014

In our 21st annual survey, Global Finance identifies the best banks in 150 countries and eight regions. The winners are not always the biggest banks, but rather, the best—those with the qualities that corporations should look for when choosing a bank.

Awards

BEST U.S. REGIONAL BANKS: 2014

Since the global financial crisis, US regional banks have taken market share in corporate banking away from the national money-center banks, which have dialed back on risk to rebuild their balance sheets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EM RISKS: DEALING WITH THE WILD CARDS

This year has already proven to be a wild one when it comes to emerging markets risks. Preparing for what is to come in volatile and disparate markets is ever more central to the treasury and risk management functions.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EUROPEAN CORPORATE CREDIT QUALITY IS ON THE RISE

Corporate credit-rating upgrades in the first quarter of 2014 outnumbered downgrades in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the first time since 2008, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The rating agency says positive credit trends in the EMEA region are likely to continue through 2014, despite potential negative events in Russia and Ukraine.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SRI LANKA: LIBERALIZING FOR GROWTH

Sri Lanka has an open business environment, but challenges—not least its recovery from the civil war that ended in 2009—remain.