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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

VENEZUELA: FREE-FLOATING CURRENCY UNLIKELY TO STAVE OFF DEFAULT

Milestones | Venezuela Venezuela’s introduction of a marginal free-floating currency system that will freely trade the US dollar and the bolivar seems unlikely to enlarge the country’s foreign exchange reserves or stem its growing external debt.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS TOP THE NEW PRESIDENTS AGENDA

Newsmakers | Sri Lanka “The first 100 days of Sirisena’s manifesto are devoted to constitutional reforms,”

Banking

CRISIS PUTS WEAK BANKING SECTOR IN SPOTLIGHT AGAIN

Milestones | Russia During economic crises, Russia’s banking sector has tended to make a bad situation worse; The current crisis appears to be no different.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EU TAX REFORM: VAT REGULATION HITS SMES

Milestones | European Union Regulators had Web giants like Google and Apple in their sites when they framed a new value-added tax (VAT) regulation for businesses selling digital products into the European Union

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE: BRIDGING THE GLOBAL GAP

Cover Story As economic growth languishes and worries about the specter of deflation mount, much-needed infrastructure development and new sources of project financing could provide a panacea to global growth.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

JUMBE LATEST FINANCE MINISTER TO JUMP SHIP

Newsmakers | Malawi Friday Jumbe is set to become the latest African finance minister to swap his political ambitions to take up a senior post in a development bank.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NEW INVESTORS DRIVE PROJECT FINANCING

The largest fully nonrecourse project finance deal of 2014, in fact the largest ever, was the expansion of a liquefied nitrogen gas (LNG) facility near Freeport in Texas.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

OIL PRICE SLUMP PROMPTS NORWAY TO ACTION

Milestones | Norway With prices less than half the level of a year ago, Norway has been hit hard by the slump in crude revenues.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

SURPRISE PRESIDENTIAL WIN FOR GRABAR-KITAROVI

Newsmakers | Croatia Despite the ceremonial nature of the Croatian presidency, Grabar-Kitarovi has denounced the government for “cold-hearted” economic policies and says Croatia’s economy is a national disgrace.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TUG OF WAR

Global Finance sat down with Arvind Rajan, International Chief Investment Officer at Prudential Fixed Income, to discuss the impact of low oil prices on the ability of emerging markets to service their debt.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

US-CUBA RELATIONS THAW, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN

Milestones | United States & Cuba After 54 years of economic and diplomatic isolation, relations between Cuba and the United States appeared to thaw in mid-January, when the U.S. implemented a host of regulatory changes to its sanctions regime against the Communist country.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

WALL STREET BANKER WITHDRAWS FROM TREASURY RACE

Newsmakers | United States Weiss is widely regarded as capable, and is a liberal himself. But he came under fire because of his affiliation with Wall Street, as many in the American left have been calling for an end to the “revolving door,”