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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Kenya To Become Green Power Pioneer

KENYA By Dan Keeler Kenya’s Olkaria II geothermal plant generates 70MW Kenya’s government is looking for a strategic investor to buy 19% of the country’s principal electricity supplier, the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen). Eddy Njoroge, KenGen’s managing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Sasol May Gain From Lower Natural Gas Prices

Emerging Markets Investor: Company to watch By Gordon Platt Sasol is a prime example of a successful multinational company based in South Africa, where it mines coal to provide the raw material to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: West Africa

REGIONAL REPORT: REGIONAL RESURGENCE A flurry of bond issues illustrates the growing confidence west Africa’s nations have in their economic and political futures. Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire are leading the way. By Nick Kochan The contrasts in ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards Best Emerging Market Banks 2010 Africa

AFRICA By Gordon Platt REGIONAL WINNER: Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered Bank's earnings from its African operations rose 54% last year to $482 million. The London-based emerging markets bank receives 90% of its income and profits from Asia, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: Regional Report: Southern Africa

In From The Cold Global businesses and investors are taking more interest in sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the world’s most neglected emerging markets. By Antonio Guerrero Sub-Saharan Africa has long been considered to be on ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Company to Watch: Anglo Platinum/South Africa

Auto Sales Revival Puts New Shine On Platinum By GP South Africa-based Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest primary producer of platinum, retrenched in 2009 after demand for the metal used in catalytic converters suffered from decreasing consumption by ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Africa

Roundup By Antonio Guerrero Panning for gold: African mines spark investor interest Rising gold prices have sparked renewed interest by foreign investors in African mines. Banro, a Canadian gold miner, expects to close a debt financing deal for ...

Award Winners

WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2009

Istanbul, October 6th, 2009 – Global Finance magazine hosted its thirteenth annual Best Bank Awards ceremony on October 6th, 2009,...

Award Ceremonies and Events

WORLD’S 50 SAFEST BANKS 2009

With bank stability still high on corporate and investor agendas, Global Finance magazine publishes in the October 2009 issue its...
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