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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MOROCCO BUILDING A DYNAMIC FINANCIAL CENTER | COUNTRY REPORT

Country Report | Morocco With a diversified economic base and improving fundamentals, Morocco has a sound fiscal strategy and well-thought-out reform program to cut red tape and boost trade. But further reform, says the IMF, is needed.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

REGIONAL HEAVYWEIGHTS | BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES

Global Finance’s first annual ranking of the top-performing companies in the Middle East shows how much of the region is still in the early stages of reducing its dependence on oil.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

RIVAS NEEDS TO WOO ESTONIA’S RUSSIAN MINORITY | NEWSMAKERS

Newsmakers | Estonia Estonians handed victory to 35-year-old Taavi Rõivas and his center-right Reform Party in parliamentary elections on March 1.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TIBET’S ECONOMY BOOMS AS REST OF CHINA SLOWS | MILESTONES

Milestones | Tibet Amid a general slowdown in the Chinese economy, Tibet has emerged as the fastest-growing province in the country.

Awards

The World’s Best Banks of 2015 – Announcement

Andrea Fiano (Editor) & Denise Bedell (Executive Editor) of Global Finance announce The World's Best Banks of 2015, who the new & returning winners are,and our methodology.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

A TENSE NIGERIA PUSHES BACK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Milestones | Nigeria A week before it was to take place, Nigeria’s presidential election was postponed for fear it would spark violence. The election was originally scheduled for February 14 but has been pushed back six weeks to March 28. The outcome of this delay is unclear.

Banking

ANDREW SPINDLER: BANKERS WITHOUT BORDERS

Global Salon Global Finance sat down recently with Andrew Spindler, president and CEO of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, which has spread the gospel of sound financial systems to the developing world for the better part of a quarter of a century.

Country Report

ANGOLA: SEEKING A NEW PATH

Country Report | Angola Up until 2013, Angola's GDP, buoyed by booming oil revenues, grew by an average rate of 10.7%, reaching an all-time high of 23.2% in 2007. Now, as economic growth slows and the country’s financial coffers move from surplus to deficit, Angola is rethinking its dependence on “black gold.”

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging & Frontier Markets

MOROCCO BUILDING A DYNAMIC FINANCIAL CENTER | COUNTRY REPORT

REGIONAL HEAVYWEIGHTS | BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES

RIVAS NEEDS TO WOO ESTONIA’S RUSSIAN MINORITY | NEWSMAKERS

TIBET’S ECONOMY BOOMS AS REST OF CHINA SLOWS | MILESTONES

The World’s Best Banks of 2015 – Announcement

A TENSE NIGERIA PUSHES BACK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

ANDREW SPINDLER: BANKERS WITHOUT BORDERS

ANGOLA: SEEKING A NEW PATH

ASIAN FDI: KEEP IT FLOWING

BANGLADESH: SHADES OF GREY

BRAZIL: SMOOTH SAILING FOR PETROBRAS CEO?

EGYPT: AN INTERVIEW WITH CIB’S CHAIRMAN