Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Special Economic Zones: Who Wins, Who Loses?
In the race to attract foreign direct investment, countries are opening SEZs at a furious rate. Winnowing down the choices requires some serious due diligence.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
State-Owned Companies, Financial Markets & The New Trade Deals
Trends | Sovereign Funds & Trade
This summer US Congress passed a law giving president Barack Obama the authority to “fast-track” free-trade pacts such as the multinational Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP), which covers around 40% of trade in American goods and 60% of trade in Asian goods.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Suez Canal: Egyptian Economy Will See A Bump-upBut How Big?
At a lavish ceremony last month, the Egyptian government inaugurated the new Suez Canal, marking an expansion of the original project, which dates to 1869.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Taiwan Report | Strait Shooters
China’s rattling of sabers may be causing tension in Taiwan, but the country’s currency is on the rise.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
The Hungary Games
CEE Regional Report
The unorthodox policies of prime minister Viktor Orbán may be controversial, but they’ve helped kick-start the country’s economy. Most of the other CEE nations are also mounting turnarounds..
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The Renminbi Inches Toward Reserve Currency Status
Capital Markets | Foreign Exchange
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund recently held an informal meeting to discuss a staff report that found some deficiencies in the renminbi as a potential reserve currency.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The Rules Of Engagement Regional Overview
A raft of new regulations around the world is changing how treasurers manage cash.
Features
Uruguay Regional Champ
Wedged between Brazil and Argentina—two neighbors with serious economic problems—Uruguay is an attractive foreign direct investment alternative in Latin America.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Companies Lock In Low Rates For 100 Year Bonds And Longer
Capital Markets | Debt
Jaws dropped in June, when scandal-plagued Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company, announced plans to come to market with a 100-year bond. Who in their right mind would lend $2.5 billion for a century to an emerging markets company that in April wrote off $17 billion in overvalued assets and billions more in bribes?
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Diversification And Data
At the beginning of the summer, credit insurance company Coface issued its monthly list of upgrades and downgrades of country risk.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Oil’s Well That Ends Well
GCC Regional Report 2015 | Oil Prices
GCC countries are weathering low oil prices surprisingly well, cushioned by sovereign funds, economic diversification and development.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
PDVSA Scrambles To Make Up For Lost Oil Revenue
Milestones | Venezuela
Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, is being squeezed by low oil prices, and the government in Caracas is feeling the pain.