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WORLD’S BEST CONSUMER INTERNET BANKS IN EUROPE 2012
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Central & Eastern Europe
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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 ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Country Report: Turkey
GREAT EXPECTATIONS By Justin Keay The government has lofty aspirations for Turkish growth, but reform and demographic development are necessary for the nation’s economy to reach its potential. The coming year could be a good one for ...
News
New Derivatives Market Regulations Finally Adopted In Europe
MILESTONES: EUROPE By Anita Hawser It has been almost three years in the making and encapsulates European regulators’ response to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the implosion of the collateralized debt obligation market following the subprime crisis in ...
Award Winners
World’s Best Banks 2012: Europe
By Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson, Antonio Guerrero & Gordon Platt EUROPE Europe’s banks are being pulled in two directions. Governments want them to lend more, especially to small- and medium-size enterprises, while European and national regulators require them to strengthen their ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
DR News: Russia Reforms Laws For DR Issuers
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt Russia made a number of major changes in its securities legislation that will affect depositary receipt programs for shares of Russian issuers, according to law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. Some of ...