Features
Investors Await Saudi Exchange Access
Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) said in July that,Inshallah, it will open its $560 billion stock market to foreign financial institutions in the first half of next year.
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The Yukos Saga: What does it mean for CEE Investment?
It is easy to dismiss the Yukos case as a temporary political and legal hurdle. But clearly the reality is more complex.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Political Hurdles Plague Trade Agreement
The sixth round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union was held in Brussels on July 18 just as winds of political change have begun sweeping across the two continents.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ASIA: READING THE TEA LEAVES
REGIONAL FOCUS | EMERGING ASIA<br />
The bigger the opportunity, the bigger the risk. This certainly holds true for frontier and emerging economies in Asia. Finding the right balance between the two is a key challenge for multinationals looking to invest there.
Banking
BIG LOAN SIGNALS EGYPT’S RETURN TO GLOBAL MARKETS
FINANCE & CAPITAL | TRENDS: Islamic Finance
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
DEBT REFINANCING NEEDS TO CHANGE CORP-BANK RELATIONS
FINANCE & CAPITAL | MANAGEMENT: CORPORATE DEBT
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ECB’S NEGATIVE RATES TO ALTER CASH MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
FINANCE & CAPITAL | CAPITAL MARKETS<br />
The European Central Bank’s adoption of a negative deposit rate for banks’ excess reserves [meaning they charge interest for bank reserves held at the ECB] could have a widespread impact on money markets and corporate cash-management policies.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FIRST GLOBAL STANDARD SET FOR REVENUE RECOGNITION
FINANCE & CAPITAL | MANAGEMENT: Accounting
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
INDIA TO LIBERALIZE ISSUANCE RULES FOR DRS
FINANCE & CAPITAL | CAPITAL MARKETS: DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
NIGERIA: LIGHTING UP THE POWER SECTOR
COUNTRY REPORT | NIGERIA<br />
Nigeria lacks one key element for stellar growth: a power sector commensurate with its prospects.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
OTC MARKETS, NOT NYSE, TRADE MOST ADRS
FINANCE & CAPITAL | CAPITAL MARKETS: AMERICAN DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS
Banking
PORTUGAL: BACK FROM THE BRINK?
COUNTRY REPORT<br />
With strong underpinnings for reform now in place, Portugal is seeing signs of economic improvement. But now that it has increased exports, will greater vulnerability to global trade winds haunt growth?