Banking
New Reality In The Gulf: Austerity
Nations slash subsidies in the face of cheap oil and regional conflicts.
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Banking
Padilla: Bearer Of Bad News, Unpopular Choices
Puerto Rico
He has become the face of Puerto Rico’s woes, warning in media interview after interview of its inability to pay its bills and serving as the island’s bearer of bad financial news.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Poland’s New PM Gives Markets The Jitters
Poland
The appointment of Beata Szydo as Poland’s new prime minister, following the victory of her conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) in the latest parliamentary election, has stirred concerns about her relative inexperience and a potentially populist, rightward lurch for the nation.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Pro-Mainland Party Gets Boost From China
Chinese president Xi Jinping met with Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou on November 7 in Singapore, the first time leaders from the two governments have come together since 1949.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Squeezed Between Dragon And Eagle
Asia’s emerging economies fight to diversify from China and the US.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
The African Growth Story Grinds To A Halt
In the wake of falling commodities prices, Africa’s largest and oil-rich economies are now in damage-repair mode.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Where To Next For Emerging Markets?
An expanding middle class and strong long-term fundamentals suggest that pessimism over developing nations’ economic prospects may be overdone.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Will Historic Elections Pull Myanmar Into Modernity?
History was made in Myanmar, the country formerly called Burma, on November 8, when the National League for Democracy (NLD), headed by Noble Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won a near-total sweep in the first democratic election in 25 years.
Banking
Bernanke Speaks Out In New Book
United States: Former US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke lashed out at what he described as a do-nothing Congress in his new memoir, Courage to Act.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Building Consensus With The Private Sector
Thomas Gass, assistant secretary-general for policy coordination and interagency affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, talked with Global Finance about the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals and how the private sector can help.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Finance Minister Key To City-States’s Revamped Cabinet
Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation’s next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People’s Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High Cost Of Failure For Shells Arctic Oil Quest
Big oil companies waited for years to see if anyone could successfully tap into Arctic oil reserves.