Features
Draconian New Turkish Internet Law Culls Investor Confidence
Faraways / Shutterstock.com Demonstrators have been out on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara yet again, keeping Turkey’s riot police...
Central & Eastern Europe
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Free Bird: Yukos Oils Ex-Chief Released
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan In December, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia’s most high-profile political prisoners and the former CEO of Yukos Oil—at one point Russia’s largest oil company—was abruptly released. He had served about 10 ...
Banking
SEPA Compliant: To Be Or Not To Be?
SPECIAL REPORT By Anita Hawser To be or not to be? Compliant, that is. Apparently, the answer is it doesn’t matter—at least not yet. Just a few weeks before the February 1 SEPA deadline came to pass, the ...
Features
Politics in Turkey Turn Downright Byzantine
Demo site: Protestors in Istanbul’s Taksim Square last summer ( Photo: Fleshstorm ) Turkey, the onetime sick man of Europe,...
Country Report
Bring On The New Russia
COUNTRY REPORT By Justin Keay As investors query what will happen in Russia’s economy over the near term, the long-term outlook is improving as the business environment is liberalized. Russia will be at the center of world ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Foreign Exchange: Dollar Days
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Despite the euro’s surprisingly strong showing in 2013, analysts expect the dollar to advance against most major currencies this year. The euro won’t be allowed to continue to appreciate, or it will ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Poland: Longtime Finance Minister Axed
NEWSMAKERS By Justin Keay There were few raised eyebrows when Poland’s premier Donald Tusk replaced his longtime Finance minister Jacek Rostowski with 38-year-old Mateusz Szczurek in a major cabinet reshuffle on November 20. Disagreements between Tusk and Rostowski ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ukraines Startling About-Face
FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT By Dan Keeler Ukraine’s decision to turn its back on Western Europe has seriously undermined its near-term appeal, but long-term opportunities remain. Perhaps more than any other country in Europe, Ukraine is torn between ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
An Odd Twist In The Geopolitics Of Gas
Global energy markets are attending closely to recent natural gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean and their implications for the availability and pricing of energy resources.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s Letter: The New Geography
There is a new definition of the emerging markets and their characteristics that confutes many old and accepted axioms; for example, the idea that the cost of labor is cheaper in developing countries, or that governance is more advanced and regulations are more enforced in developed countries.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Europe: Dark Clouds Down South
While Central Europe appears to be recovering from the effects of the global economic downturn, Southeastern Europe is in for a rougher ride.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Georgia: Young Guns Now Riding Herd
Over the past year, Georgia has undergone a major political face-lift. Since the Georgian Dream coalition, led by billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, won parliamentary elections in October 2012, a cadre of relatively young and inexperienced politicians has risen to the government’s top posts.