Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features: Cold Turkey
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Turkey
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmakers : Military Pension Fund Spreads Its Wings
TURKEY Coskun Ulusoy: Army pension fund looks beyond Turkey, but not Asia. While pension funds in Europe and other parts of the world are being told to raise their game in order to make up investment ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Turkey’s Biggest IPO Raises $1.9 Billion
COMPANY TO WATCH: TURK TELEKOM/TURKEY Türk Telekom, the country’s former fixed-line phone monopoly, is expanding rapidly into mobile phone and Internet services. The company has 5 million broadband Internet customers and expects that total to reach 9 million by the ...
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 ...
Banking
Cover Story : From Bust To Boom
Middle East Lebanon’s banks are spreading their wings as they push for more growth in the Middle East’s key markets. Banks in downtown Beirut: Lebanon's financial institutions are expanding through the region. While the banking sector remains the backbone ...
Banking
Cover Story: Let the good times roll
The Middle East Prudent investment of vastly increased oil revenues and a determination to build stable financial foundations are helping transform the Middle East into one of the world’s most vibrant economic areas. The DIFC in Dubai: One of the ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Editor’s Letter: Welcome to globalization 2.0
Readers might find flipping through this months issue makes their heads spin...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Turkish Banking And Finance Roundtable 2008
SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE At a roundtable in Istanbul, Global Finance brought together Turkey’s central banker and other leading figures to discuss the prospects for the country’s economy. GLOBAL FINANCE: The Turkish government seems to be redoubling its efforts to ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features: Riding A Growth Wave
SECTOR REPORT / SHIPPING FINANCE Growth in world trade spurs demand for financing of ships and terminals. Sharp growth in the size of cargo ships has prompted expansion of the Panama canal. Sharp growth in the size of ...
Banking
Cover Story : Brave New World
A NEW DAWN “O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in’t!” —William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I. From the ...
News
Newsmakers : Miliband Urges EU To Open Door To More New Members
UNITED KINGDOM Miliband: The European Union should ontinue to expand to the east The United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, says that the European Union should gradually expand further into Eastern Europe, including Russia, as well as into ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Cover Story : Trying Times
THE WORLD BANK The World Bank’s struggle to redefine its role in a globalized economy has raised a fundamental question: Do we really need a World Bank? No sooner had the dust settled after the controversial departure of ...