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INTERVIEWS WITH THE AWARD WINNERS
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Banking
RATING AGENCIES – THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE
Europe’s bond market grew 50% faster than the global rate during the first nine months of the year—by 4.6% year-on-year—but small foreign rating agencies jockeying for a piece of the action are crying foul.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ROMANIA: PROCEED WITH CAUTION
Frontier Markets Focus | Romania<br />
Romania aggressively pursues foreign direct investment by providing a number of incentive programs. But international investors should approach each one carefully.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
A Small Step to Unlock Credit for the Club Med
This month the European Central Bank will start to buy euro-denominated asset-backed securities (ABS) and covered bonds in an effort to revive a market that has been sharply impaired since the financial crisis.
News
NEW PM A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN QUANTITY
NEWSMAKERS | POLAND<br />
The crop-haired, bespectacled 58-year-old is barely known outside Poland. Even within, most people know Kopacz, a former doctor and Health minister more for her loyalty to Tusk than for anything else.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
SEEKING TO DIVERSIFY
FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT | KAZAKHSTAN<br />
Kazakhstan is rife with investment opportunities, but companies must be aware of the country’s regional commitments and business climate.
Award Winners
BEST INTERNET BANKS 2014 ROUND 1
In this first installment of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the top online corporate and consumer banks by country and then by region, according to product or service category.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
RECOVERY IS UNDER WAY IN CEE
REGIONAL REPORT | CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE<br />
Central European countries are starting to recover, with growth accelerating in most markets. But the region’s banks still have some trials to overcome.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
RUSSIA: FRICTION WITH THE WEST, NEW TIES WITH THE EAST
Events in Ukraine have changed the outlook for Russia. Now the country faces choices about its global role that could affect the rest of the world for decades. Which path will it take?
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ECB’S NEGATIVE RATES TO ALTER CASH MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
FINANCE & CAPITAL | CAPITAL MARKETS<br />
The European Central Bank’s adoption of a negative deposit rate for banks’ excess reserves [meaning they charge interest for bank reserves held at the ECB] could have a widespread impact on money markets and corporate cash-management policies.
Banking
ECONOMIC AFTERSHOCKS
<u>DEAR READER</u><br />
Geopolitical instability seems to be everywhere these days, whether we look to North Africa and the Middle East or Eastern Europe, to Southern Asia or Southeast Asia, and it weighs on financial markets and policymakers worldwide.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SLOVAKIA: BRIGHT PROSPECTS
FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT | SLOVAKIA<br />
Slovakia has moved resolutely to compete with other former Soviet-bloc nations for foreign direct investment.