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Uniting Divided Factions In Japan

NEWSMAKERS: JAPAN By Thomas Clouse Yoshihiko Noda became Japan’s sixth prime minister in the last five years after the lower house of parliament voted the 54-year-old finance minister into office on August 30. Noda is Japan’s sixth PM ...

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Beers: The Man Who Pulled The Trigger On The US Triple-A

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt David Beers, managing director and head of sovereign credit ratings for Standard & Poor’s in London, is the mustachioed face behind the rating agency’s downgrade of US treasury bonds to AA+ from ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Investors Optimistic On Sri Lankan Growth

MILESTONES: SRI LANKA By Kim Iskyan It’s been a good run for Sri Lanka of late. In mid-July, all three major ratings agencies upped their views on the country, pointing to the ongoing recovery and broad economic stabilization. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Kulibayev Front-Runner In Kazakhstan Succession

NEWSMAKERS: KAZAKHSTAN By Kim Iskyan Talk of who might replace Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev—who has ruled the oil-rich Central Asian country since 1989—has long been taboo in the country’s political circles. With Nazarbayev’s blessing Succession uncertainty has ...

Banking

Lagarde Prepares To Put Her Stamp On The IMF

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Christine Lagarde will be under the microscope at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington on September 23–25. Lagarde: Wants relevant, credible and effective IMF The silver-haired woman the French like ...

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LSE’s Rolet Between A Rock And A Hard Place

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED KINGDOM By Anita Hawser Xavier Rolet, the London Stock Exchange’s CEO, must have breathed a sigh of relief when the European Commission announced in early August that it would investigate the proposed merger between Deutsche Börse ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Preparing For Basel III

COVER STORY: MISSING PIECES By Michael Shari Corporations are adding up the costs—and looking at alternatives to increasingly expensive banking services. It would be hard to find a multinational corporation with a firmer grip on the intricacies ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Shinawatra Must Bridge The Class Gap In Thailand

NEWSMAKERS: THAILAND By Kim Iskyan In early May, Yingluck Shinawatra was a prominent business executive in Thailand. Shinawatra: Following in her brother’s footsteps Two months later, she became the country’s first female prime minister. Her astonishingly rapid ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US Treasury Department Going Paperless

MILESTONES: UNITED STATES By Anita Hawser There is nothing quite like the threat of a debt default and a whopping budget deficit to focus policymakers’ minds on cutting costs. E–invoicing to reduce Treasury costs In an effort to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Vietnamese PM Starts Second Term Of Office

NEWSMAKERS: VIETNAM By Thomas Clouse Nguyen Tan Dung, the Vietnamese prime minister who guided the country through its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2007 and successfully navigated the financial crisis of 2008, is set for a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

ASEAN Moves Closer To Political Cohesion

MILESTONES: ASIA By Thomas Clouse The Association of Southeast Asian Nations took another step toward political cohesion in late July, agreeing jointly with China to nonbinding guidelines for settling competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. South China Sea—still ...

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