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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Alfa Group Oligarch Leaves TNK-BP Chair

NEWSMAKERS: RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan Mikhail Fridman has overcome a lot of hurdles since his humble beginnings as a window-cleaning entrepreneur in Russia, just as the Soviet Union was unraveling. Fridman faces his most difficult maneuver yet ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: Russia

PRIVATIZATION PLAN COULD STUMBLE BEFORE LEAVING THE GATE By Kim Iskyan In early June, Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, agreed to buy DenizBank of Turkey from French-Belgian lender Dexia, for $3.5 billion. The deal marked Sberbank's second-largest transaction in recent ...

Country Report

Country Report: Russia

BATTLING THE STATUS QUO By Justin Keay Although the government has pledged to improve the business clime, foreign investors remain skeptical that much-needed reform will happen—at least in the short term. Russia is in a state of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: Caucasus

THREE COUNTRIES AT A CROSSROADS By Kim Iskyan Countries of the Caucasus have had very different fates since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Each is moving on a path toward economic stability and growth—albeit at very different ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cash Management: Supply Chain Finance

THE NEW SILK ROAD By Anita Hawser Supply chain finance is becoming a critical tool in funding fast-growing Southern corridor trade. The ancient Silk Road, one of the world’s oldest trade routes, increased the importance of Southern ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CEE: Liberal Markets And the Crisis

A REGION IN TRANSITION By Vanessa Drucker Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Iron Curtain countries have embarked on a long road toward liberal market economies. Since the 1990s—during their accession to the European Union ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Company to Watch: ŞIŞECAM / Turkey

TURKEY’S LEADING GLASSMAKER EXPANDS ABROAD By Gordon Platt Glassmaker iecam has a near monopoly on the glass market in Turkey, where it operates a chain of retail outlets for its Paabahçe brand of glassware, and where its flat-glass output ...
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