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Banking

Features : Changing The Game

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS With sovereign wealth funds rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces in global finance, one key question has emerged: Should they be feared or revered? With the subprime-induced credit crunch causing stocks of financial giants such ...

Banking

Features : Shariah-Compliant Corporate Finance Forges Ahead

ISLAMIC INVESTMENT BANKING Investor demand, banks’ creativity and deep pools of liquidity in the Middle East are driving strong growth in the development of Islamic investment banking products. Hassoune:“Investors and entrepreneurs must hare the risks and rewards of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : As Global Markets Stabilize, Analysts Say Dollar Could Lose Appeal As Safe-haven Currency

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / FOREIGN EXCHANGE As risk appetite returns to the global markets, the dollar could lose what little support it has gained from its role as a safe-haven currency during the recent period of turbulence, analysts ...

Award Winners

Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Individually, many of the world’s leading central bankers seemed to be in disarray after the subprime debacle began to unfold in mid-2007. As a group, though, they acted with remarkably unity. The central ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : In For The Long Haul

ANALYSIS / INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING Many Asian countries desperately need to upgrade their infrastructure while cash-rich private equity funds are scouring the region for long-term investments. Is this a match made in heaven? Nag: We can only meet a small ...

Banking

Milestones : Shariah Japan 100 Index Forms Basis Of Islamic ETF

JAPAN Toyota: Top holding in new ETF. Tokyo-based Daiwa Asset Management will create an exchange-traded fund based on the newly formed FTSE Shariah Japan 100 index. The ETF, which will be listed on the Singapore Exchange in ...

Banking

Milestones : Booming Islamic Finance Faces Hurdles

GLOBAL High aspirations: Islamic finance on the rise. Excess liquidity and the tidal wave of petrodollars flooding into the Middle East are causing a surge of interest in Islamic finance. The growth rate of the industry is now ...

Country Report

Features : Opening For Business

Country Report / Malaysia With the South Johor development region opening up and the banking market on the verge of full liberalization, Malaysia presents growing opportunities for investment. Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur After decades of being wary ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Malaysia

Features : Changing The Game

Features : Shariah-Compliant Corporate Finance Forges Ahead

Corporate Finance : As Global Markets Stabilize, Analysts Say Dollar Could Lose Appeal As Safe-haven Currency

Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2007

Features : In For The Long Haul

Milestones : Shariah Japan 100 Index Forms Basis Of Islamic ETF

Milestones : Booming Islamic Finance Faces Hurdles

Features : Opening For Business

Cover Story : Boom Times

Cover Story : Rising Stars

Emerging Markets : Will Palm Oil Be Asia’s Biofuel?

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