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Economics, Policy & Regulation

CEE: STRUCTURAL REFORMS NEEDED

<strong>Central & Eastern Europe | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br /> Central and Eastern Europe has come a long way in the past 25 years, but the region must overcome some significant obstacles in 2015—particularly as Russia’s conflict with Ukraine continues.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CHANGING ECONOMIC CLIMATE OF EMERGING MARKETS

<strong>Seeking A New Paradigm | Emerging Markets Growth</strong><br /> To ascertain whether emerging markets is an obsolete term, we must first understand what it means.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CHINA EASES INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

<strong>China | Milestones</strong><br /> China will allow foreign firms to increase their ownership stakes in encouraged sectors and enter into previously protected industries, according to investment guidelines drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission.

Banking

ECB STRESS TESTS FAIL THE CREDIBILITY TEST

<strong>European Banking | Trends</strong><br /> The degree to which the recent stress tests of big European banks by EU regulators lack credibility is becoming clear.<br />

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EDITOR’S LETTER: REDEFINING EMERGING MARKETS

For many years <strong>Global Finance </strong>has regularly covered emerging markets and frontier markets. This annual issue of the magazine, which is focused on the EM, goes a bit further. We analyze these markets regionally, but we also question the prevalent definition of emerging markets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET FACES CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAKE OF FIXING SCANDAL

<strong>Foreign Exchange | Capital Markets</strong><br /> How to take the gaming instinct out of foreign exchange traders has become the order of the day, following last month’s imposition of $4.3 billion in fines on six global banks for manipulating currency benchmarks.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

HUNGARY: PROTESTS FORCE PM TO SHELVE INTERNET TAX

<strong>Hungary | Milestones</strong><br /> Hungary has witnessed the biggest street protests since the current right-wing government came to power in 2010, against the government’s plans to tax Internet traffic, the world’s first such levy.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

IMPROVING ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY

<strong>Asia-Pacific | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br /> Structural changes in emerging Asia’s manufacturing-for-export markets are erasing the low-cost advantage.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

LATIN AMERICA: END OF THE BOOM ERA?

<strong>Latin America | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br /> After years of strong growth, many key markets in Latin America are faltering. Although overall the region is no longer producing the high growth it once did, a number of markets continue to rise to new heights.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MASALA BOND PROMOTES INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE RUPEE

<strong>India | Capital Markets</strong><br /> 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.
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