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BRAZILIAN OPTIMIST | LUIZ CARLOS ANGELOTTI, BANCO BRADESCO

Global Finance sat down with Luiz Carlos Angelotti, MD and head of investor relations at Brazil’s Banco Bradesco, to discuss the bank’s bullish approach to investing despite the country’s economic downturn.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

CAUCASUS | HEADING IN THREE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS

Regional Report | The Caucasus Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, the nations that make up the region of the Caucasus, are all working hard to improve their business and economic climates, but with varying degrees of success.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: CONSUMPTION RESUMES

Regional Report | Central & Eastern Europe Although geopolitical risks are still keeping executives awake at night, there has been a remarkable turnaround in some countries of the region, thanks in large part to structural reforms—implemented early and strongly.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

COMPLIANCE GOES GLOBAL: THE UNAVOIDABLE COSTS OF INCREASING REGULATION

Cover Story | Compliance As the US has extended its regulatory reach beyond its own borders, other jurisdictions have followed its lead. Global corporations face an ever-growing burden in maintaining compliance with increasingly complex regulatory and reporting regimes. This is affecting their budgets, their structuring and also their strategy.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

COMPLIANCE: COSTLY AND GLOBAL

By deciding to devote our cover story to compliance this month we focus on a key element in the DNA of this magazine: Managing compliance is increasingly a global issue for corporates and financial institutions.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CROWDFUNDING | EUREECA FINDS APPROVAL IN BRITAIN

Capital Markets | Equity Capital Raising Eureeca, the first global equity crowdfunding company, with offices in London and Dubai, received regulatory approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority to operate in Britain.

Banking

CUBA | BANKS AWAIT MARKET OPENING

Global Finance talked money laundering, Cuba and banking regulation with David Schwartz, president and CEO of the Florida International Bankers Association, a nonprofit representing financial institutions in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FRANCE | GOVERNMENT UPS ITS STAKE IN RENAULT

Milestones | France The French government temporarily increased its stake in French carmaker Renault to nearly 20% ahead of the company’s annual general meeting in April.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

HAS IRAN FINALLY COME IN FROM THE COLD?

Milestones | Iran It may have taken 12 years to reach, but the framework agreement struck between the so-called P5+1 (Russia, China, France, Britain, and the US, plus Germany), the European Union and Iran has enough momentum, say analysts, to yield a full accord by June 30.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

ISRAEL | ECONOMIC REFORMS COMPLICATE NETANYAHU’S FOURTH TERM

Newsmakers | Israel Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s success among center-right political parties, which saw him recently elected for a fourth term, may have provided a stable political platform, but international pressure and recent social unrest could see the country change economic direction.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NICARAGUA’S GRAND CANAL AMBITIONS FAIL TO WOO VOTERS

Newsmakers | Nicaragua When Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega announced last December a plan to construct a controversial transoceanic waterway that would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal, he vowed the project would create jobs and bring prosperity to the hemisphere’s second-poorest nation.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

NIGERIA | BUHARI’S SECOND COMING AS PRESIDENT

Newsmakers | Nigeria Nigeria’s presidential election proved the bookmakers both right and wrong.