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Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Mothballed Indian GDRs Coming To Market

MOTHBALLED INDIAN GDRS COMING TO MARKET By Gordon Platt More than $1 billion of planned global depositary receipt (GDR) issues from companies in India were delayed in March, when market conditions deteriorated following the outbreak of hostilities in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Chinas Inflation Near Peak, Investors Eye Earnings Growth

CHINA’S INFLATION NEAR PEAK, INVESTORS EYE EARNINGS GROWTH By Gordon Platt China’s monetary policy-tightening is advanced relative to other economies, and domestic inflation, which is centered in food prices, may be near a peak, analysts say. “As ...

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 ...

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 ...

Banking

Special Report: Islamic Finance In Asia

MALAYSIAN DOMINANCE PUT TO THE TEST By Anita Hawser Long the leading force in Asia-Pacific’s Islamic finance industry, Malaysia is facing growing regional competition. Anyone that does business or invests in Asia-Pacific will tell you that, as ...

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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WORLDS BEST GLOBAL BANKS 2011

Global Finance names the World’s Best Global Banks 2011 NEW YORK, August 22, 2011 Global Finance magazine (GFmag.com) has announced...
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