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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

HUNGARY | BANKS HOWL OVER DECISION IN BROKERAGE SCAM

Capital Markets | Fixed Income Hungary’s biggest financial scandal, which broke earlier this year, involved the alleged issuance of more than $500 million of phony bonds by Quaestor Financial Hrurira. The brokerage was one of three firms charged with fraud.

Banking

ISTANBUL FINANCIAL CENTER: UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Country Report | Turkey - Islamic Finance Officials in Turkey have long declared their intentions to transform Istanbul into an international financial center. Islamic finance could be the key to making that goal a reality.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

TURKEY AT A CROSS-ROADS—AGAIN

Country Report | Turkey The country’s economy has stalled, just in time for a crucial parliamentary election.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CYPRUS TAUNTS EUROPE BY HOSTING RUSSIAN NAVAL VESSELS | MILESTONES

Milestones | Cyprus The enormous economic challenges faced by Greece have overshadowed a different kind of drama elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

Banking

GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT RESTRUCTURING BANKS

At first glance, Central Asia’s banking sector looks like somewhere you just wouldn’t want to go.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

LITHUANIA: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING COUNTRY

Frontier Markets Report | Lithuania Dogged by high unemployment, Lithuania is losing young people at an alarming rate.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

RIVAS NEEDS TO WOO ESTONIA’S RUSSIAN MINORITY | NEWSMAKERS

Newsmakers | Estonia Estonians handed victory to 35-year-old Taavi Rõivas and his center-right Reform Party in parliamentary elections on March 1.

Banking

Is RBS Getting Out Of Transaction Services?

Royal Bank Of Scotland plans to vastly scale back its Transaction Services business. It is a further sign of the challenging times faced by global transaction banks.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GREECE: VAROUFAKIS SEEKS OUT A WINNING STRATEGY

Newsmakers | Greece Following political party Syriza’s triumph in the recent Greek elections, Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, faces the most critical match of his career.

Banking

CRISIS PUTS WEAK BANKING SECTOR IN SPOTLIGHT AGAIN

Milestones | Russia During economic crises, Russia’s banking sector has tended to make a bad situation worse; The current crisis appears to be no different.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EU TAX REFORM: VAT REGULATION HITS SMES

Milestones | European Union Regulators had Web giants like Google and Apple in their sites when they framed a new value-added tax (VAT) regulation for businesses selling digital products into the European Union

Award Winners

EXPERTISE AND ECONOMIES OF SCALE: TOM HRON, UNICREDIT

Q&A | Supply Chain Finance Tomáš Hron, head of global transaction banking, UniCredit Bank, Czech Republic and Slovakia, on the limits of digitization in trade and the supply chain.