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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Russia Taps Fixed-Income Market

MILESTONES: RUSSIA Russia Taps Global Markets For First Time in 12 Years By Kim Iskyan Moscow calling: Russia tests investor sentiment Russia tapped global fixed-income markets in late April in a highly anticipated issue divided into a $2 billion ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards Best Emerging Market Banks 2010 Europe

EUROPE By Paula L. Green REGIONAL WINNER: RZB/Raiffeisen International Austria-based RZB/Raiffeisen International bags the regional award for the fourth year in a row after managing to turn in a creditable performance despite atrocious market conditions. With a 1.7% ...

Country Report

Features: Country Report – Turkey

ECONOMY BOUNCES BACK A surge of growth late last year has accelerated in 2010, and there are reasons to believe the rebound can be sustained. By Gordon Platt Turkey is on a winning streak. In March this ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: Regional Report – Central & Eastern Europe

BACK FROM THE BRINK Emerging European economies are starting to recover from a steep and painful slowdown. By Justin Keay For those of an anxious disposition, emerging Europe last year was an uncomfortable place, with the risk ...

News

Newsmakers: Europe Considers Emergency Aid Fund

Europe By Justin Keay Schäuble: Europe should be able to save itself Growing concern over the indebtedness and burgeoning fiscal deficits of some European countries has led Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, to propose the establishment of a ...

News

Newsmakers: Russia’s New Plan For The Ruble

Russia By Simon Watkins Shuvalov: Grand designs for Russia’s currency While the rest of the world focuses on the future of the dollar and the euro—and perhaps the renminbi—Russia is hatching a plan that could markedly alter the ...

News

Newsmakers: EU Takes Gloomy View On Growth

Europe By Justin Keay Torres: Green and digital technologies may fill growth gap With the most serious global recession since the 1930s slowly coming to an end, European policymakers are now focusing on the post-crisis landscape. The view ...

News

Newsmakers: Europe Lags Behind In IPO Market Recovery

Europe By Laurence Neville Drying up? Investors may shun European IPOs After months of increasing excitement among equity capital market (ECM) bankers about the prospects of a bumper first quarter of IPO issuance in Europe in 2010, events ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: A Long Way To Go

EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS: CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE For most Central and Eastern European countries, 2009 turned out to be every bit as bad as expected. The region’s prospects for the coming year are mixed, at best. By Justin ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Russia

Roundup By Kim Iskyan Avtovaz: Struggling to survive in market downturn Russian government officials have sounded increasingly optimistic notes about the country’s macroeconomic situation, as strong oil prices are likely to result in a lower budget deficit than ...

Banking

Milestones: Turkey Enjoys Growing Profile In Arab World

Lebanon/Syria/Turkey By Nick Kochan Yilmaz: Turkish banks were ready for leverage crisis The evolution of Turkey’s role in the Middle East and beyond was clearly on display at a late-October risk management conference in Beirut. The guest speaker ...
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