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Cover Story : Is China The New Japan?

As fears grow that Chinas economy may be dangerously overheated, analysts are increasingly drawing parallels with Japans experience over the...

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India recently overtook China as Asias fastest-growing economy. Its showing no signs of slowing down. India has long been a...

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New instruments, government enthusiasm and a growing market are driving Islamic finance toward the mainstream. When Malaysia first laid the...

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MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Rising oil revenues and the fall of Saddam Husseins regime have boosted Kuwaits economy and created...

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The European IPO market is building up an impressive head of steam, but investors arent prepared to buy just anything....

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LATIN AMERICA Spains largest bank has invested some $17 billion in recent years to build a virtual Latin American banking...

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EUROPE Austrias Raiffeisen Zentralbank Group (RZB) has been far more systematic in expanding its operations throughout Central and Eastern Europe...

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As it prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the African Development Bank finds itself at the heart of a debate...

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Internet-based telecom technology has come of age and is now providing businesses with quantifiable benefits. Its tax season and the...

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GLOBAL The American Bankers Association and the European Banking Federation have joined with their counterparts in Canada and Australia to...

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INDIA It may be robust but the Indian banking system is anything but fast. Even checks paid within Mumbai (Bombay),...

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SOUTH KOREA Lee Hun-Jae The South Korean won suffered its biggest decline since November on news that the progovernment Uri...