Banking
Turkey | An Islamic Banking Surge
Shariah-compliant finance is growing in Turkey, and Ankara is planning new rules to help guide the market.
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Turkey | Now Among World’s Top Donor Nations
Turkey has become the world’s most generous nation, going from development assistance recipient to top donor in just over a decade.
Banking
Turkey’s Bank Resurgence | Can It Last
Turkey’s banking authorityBDDK said total banking assets had increased 7.3% since the end of 2016, reaching a total of $826 billion.
Features
The World’s Best Cities to Live In 2017
If all the world is your oyster, where do you want to clam down? Maybe not the world’s most prominent urban centers, based on a Global Finance review of global best city to live in ranking by 3 experts’ work in the field.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
2017 Could Be A Record Year For Arab Fintech
Some of this year’s biggest deals include $20 million for Bahraini payment solution PayTabs, $3.5 million for Emirati finance-comparison platform yallacompare and $1.5 million for Emirati mobile-banking solution NOW Money.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cryptocurrencies Will March On Unfazed
The likes of Burger King in Russia haveissued Whoppercoin, a cryptocurrency that enables customers to buy a signature Whopper burger.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equifax: A Breach Too Far
The breach has put the personal data of 143 million people at risk of identity theft.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Fund Raising: SPACs Return To Favor
SPACs ,created in the US in the 1990s to help financial sponsors raise funds more quickly in capital markets, had suffered, until recently, from a weak IPO market and several failed acquisitions.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The Bitcoin Wars: Regulation Vs. Opportunity
Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that raise funds using digital currencieshave come under regulatory fire in recent times.
Features
Countries With Highest GDP Growth 2017
Nauru, Ethiopia, Turkmenistan, Qatar, China and Uzbekistan are the countries with the fastest growing economies in the World as per IMF data for the last 10 years. Here is a complete list for the world's fastest growing economies in 2017 by GDP.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Iraq Welcomed Back To Global Debt Market
With an enticing yield of 6.75%, Iraq attracted $6.6 billion in orders for its $1 billion issue of five-and-a-half-year bonds in early August, its first independent bond sale in more than a decade.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Central Banker Report Cards 2017
In our October issue, Global Financepresents its latest annual grading of the world's central bank governors. Here, we present the nine who received an "A" grade in 2017: thosefrom Australia, Honduras, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Paraguay, Russia, Taiwan and the United States.