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SEPA Compliant: To Be Or Not To Be?

SPECIAL REPORT By Anita Hawser To be or not to be? Compliant, that is. Apparently, the answer is it doesn’t matter—at least not yet. Just a few weeks before the February 1 SEPA deadline came to pass, the ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Singh Backs Gandhi For Top Job

NEWSMAKERS By K.A. Badarinath Fourth-generation Nehru-Gandhi family scion, Rahul Gandhi, looked set to enter the political fray as ruling Indian...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Slashing Saudi Oil Reliance

COUNTRY REPORT By Gordon Platt The coming year could be crucial for Saudi Arabia, as the Middle Eastern powerhouse deals...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Suez Holds Key To Egyptian Economy

MILESTONES By Tiziana Barghini A grand plan to transform a vast area round the Suez Canalone of the worlds longest...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Will the ‘Google Tax’ Go Viral?

Tax officials perplexed by Google (Photo: CoolCaesar) If 2013 was the year public opinion turned solidly against the tax avoidance...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Bernanke: In Praise of Bernanke

Bernanke: The Visible Hand For Ben Bernanke, a rocky eight-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is ending...

Country Report

Bring On The New Russia

COUNTRY REPORT By Justin Keay As investors query what will happen in Russia’s economy over the near term, the long-term outlook is improving as the business environment is liberalized. Russia will be at the center of world ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Terminal Velocity: Brazil Sells Airports

EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Two international consortia won the latest round of Brazilian airport privatizations, in deals totaling $9 billion. One consortium, which includes Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and Singaporean airport operator Changi, paid $8.24 ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The Most Unpopular Man In Bali?

NEWSMAKERS KA Badarinath World powers represented by US, EU and Japanese trade ministers openly disliked him. They held 60-year-old Indian trade minister Anand Sharma squarely responsible for holding up the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Agenda discussions at ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The Return Of Ratings Shopping?

MILESTONES By Luca Ventura The announcement came early in November. Expressing the intention to break the monopoly of the Big Three in the financial ratings industry, credit ratings organizations from five countries proclaimed the launch of ARC Ratings, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ukraines Yanukovych Makes a Deal With the Devil He Knows

Yanukovych: Taking the soft option ( Roland Goodman ) The Ukraine in December secured a $15 billion bailout from Russia,...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ryanairs OLeary vs. EasyJets McCall: No contest

Ryanair: Attitude Adjustment When EasyJet in November reported a pre-tax profit of 478 million (US$785 million) for fiscal 2013a 51%...