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Banking

Features : Hard Landing

Banking crisis / central & eastern europe Central and Eastern Europe has suffered more than most regions as a result of the credit crunch. Some are concerned that economic turmoil may lead to social unrest. Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia ...

News

Milestones : Corporate Europe Set For Equity Rush

<p>EUROPE Cash is costly for Hammerson, developer of this UK cineplex With headlines dominated by bank bailouts totaling billions of dollars, it’s easy to get blasé about the scale of the challenge facing the global economy. Nevertheless, a ...</p>

Award Winners

BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2008

REGIONAL WINNER Standard Bank COUNTRY WINNER Angola BES Angola Botswana Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Cote dIvoire Ecobank Ethiopia NIB International...

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BEST GLOBAL BANKS – 2008

GLOBAL BANKS Corporate Bank JPMorgan Chase Consumer Bank HSBC Private Bank Credit Suisse Asset Management State Street Global Advisors Custody...

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RUSSIA’S BEST BANKS AND COMPANIES – 2008

Domestic Alfa Bank Foreign Citi Regional UralSib Investment Renaissance Capital Commercial Sberbank Consumer Citi Foreign Exchange VTB Domestic Trade Finance...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Financial Crisis Repercussions Threaten Putin’s Legacy

RUSSIA Defending his legacy: Putin spends his way out of financial crisis. The Russian economy continued to slide down a slippery slope of economic crisis as a series of adjustments to the trading corridor of the ruble reflected ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Medvedev’s Troubles Set Stage For Putin’s Return

RUSSIA Medvedev: Struggling through a turbulent first year in office. The Russian government is struggling to contain a rapidly unfolding and sharply accelerating economic crisis. The ruble has continued to slide—the currency has devalued 10% against the dollar ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Crash landing

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE Central and Eastern Europe has transformed from a beacon of hope into a near basket case astonishingly quickly. Its recovery will be a far slower and no less painful process. Hard hit: Hungary was one ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Oligarchs Face A Bleak Future

RUSSIA Deripaska: A dramatic turnaround The global financial crisis is sucking Russia’s oligarchs into its vortex. Information provider Bloomberg recently estimated that the combined wealth of the 25 richest Russians had plummeted 62% over the six-month period ended ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Central & Eastern Europe

Features : Hard Landing

Milestones : Corporate Europe Set For Equity Rush

BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2008

BEST GLOBAL BANKS – 2008

RUSSIA’S BEST BANKS AND COMPANIES – 2008

Emerging Markets : Financial Crisis Repercussions Threaten Putin’s Legacy

Emerging Markets : Medvedev’s Troubles Set Stage For Putin’s Return

Features : Crash landing

Newsmakers : Oligarchs Face A Bleak Future

Emerging Markets : Russia Bears Brunt Of Global Sell-off

Emerging Markets : Heavy-Handed Tactics Cause International Alarm

Emerging Markets : Russia’s Electricity Spin-Offs Create 11 New Dr Programs