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FOREIGN BANKS SECURE FOOTHOLD IN MYANMAR

Milestones | Myanmar After five decades of economic isolation, on October 1, Myanmar took its first big step into the global financial system, granting nine foreign lenders preliminary approval to operate in the country.

Banking

INDIA: MILLIONS ACCESS BASIC FINANCIAL SERVICES

Milestones | India In partnership with more than 50 state-run, cooperative and private banks, India’s National Democratic Alliance government has launched the world’s largest financial inclusion project to bring 75 million households into the banking fold by the end of January 2015.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

INTERVIEW: IS THE ASIAN GROWTH MIRACLE OVER?

Global Salon Global Finance sat down with John Jullens, partner of consulting firm Strategy&, to discuss the sustainability of growth in Asian economies.

Awards

INTERVIEWS WITH THE AWARD WINNERS

View From The Top Global Finance speaks to leading executives at the World’s Safest Banks.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MYANMAR’S FIRST CROSS-BORDER, NONRECOURSE PROJECT FINANCING

Capital Markets | Myanmar The frontier market with a population of 60 million is seeking to rejoin the global economy following nearly 50 years of isolation under military rule.

Awards

SAFETY FIRST – SAFEST BANKS IN CHINA

Stars Of China | Safest Banks In China Chinese banks display a wide variety of strength and size.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Sri Lanka Lures Foreign Direct Investments

In what is considered a first step for even bigger foreign direct investment to Sri Lanka, TPG Capital announced in August it would invest $113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombo.

Features

China’s Legal Reform Is Front and Center

Some discrepancy exists between the rules that are written and those that are enforced. This is true for most places in the world, and China is no exception.

Banking

BRIDGING THE CHASM

MARKET REPORT | ISLAMIC TRADE FINANCE Offering inventory financing to commodity traders brings much-needed liquidity to the Islamic trade finance market.

Banking

ELEVENTH-HOUR RESCUE FOR SHADOW-BANKING PRODUCT

MILESTONES | CHINA China Huarong Asset Management, a bad bank set up during the credit bust of the 1990s, has turned out to be the mystery investor that bailed out shadow-banking product Credit Equals Gold No. 1.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

INVESTMENT BANK HELPS REVERSE BRAIN DRAIN

TRENDS | SRI LANKA Hiran Embuldeniya, managing director at York Street Partners, an investment bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, says there are plenty of opportunities for the firm to do business in the country as it rapidly develops in the wake of a 30-year civil war that ended in 2009.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

JAPAN AND INDIA OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FUTURE RELATIONSHIP

MILESTONES | JAPAN Japanese prime minister Shinz Abe greeted his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in late August in the city of Kyoto, where the two leaders toured temples and posed for pictures before returning to Tokyo for four days of diplomatic talks.