Markets rally on Rousseff’s woes; corporations pressure politicians.

Pakistan’s economic reform programme is starting to bear fruit, but a huge appreciation in the real exchange rate during the past two years is hurting the country’s export market, warns the IMF, amid expectations the country will soon join the MSCI emerging markets (EMs) index.

China’s commitment to common standards for development banks is welcome news.

Argentina and Brazil are heading in opposite directions.

When it comes to great tragedies, from 9/11 to the Challenger, few ever forget where they were when they learn of such events. What about less earth-shattering news?

OCBC subsidiary Bank of Singapore’s successful bid for the private banking operations of Barclays in Asia is another sign of the bank’s ambitions in regional wealth management. It’s entirely in keeping with Singaporean banks in general, all of which have sensed an opportunity to grow while multinationals have been cutting back.

Oil rout weakens corporate debt sustainability; Rakbank and UAB suffer in SME downturn.

IPO follows strategic sale of Polish unit; strong investor demand for CEE, say bankers.

Bond showcases new strategy and structure; breathes life into region’s debt markets.

ANZ once boasted about the network it was going to build at great expense in Asia. Now, executives are loath even to mention it.

Every cloud has a silver lining, and private equity firms are pretty good at finding them. Is that why they are now targeting crisis-hit Brazil? Have they learnt from their poor recent performance?

July 7, 2014 loomed as a normal business day for Yulia Vyalova, PrivatBank’s branch network boss in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region.

Assailed by conflict and politics, Alexander Dubilet admits that the task of running Ukraine’s biggest bank is complicated. But he insists that PrivatBank can cope with the loss of large parts of its network and dismisses rumours about secret loans and the need for state support.

As other international banks take flight from Latin America, Canada’s Scotiabank is aiming to add scale. Will it succeed where others have given up? Or will it come to regret the risks inherent in a contrarian strategy?

DBS’s launch of a new digital bank in India provides a test case for a branchless model of banking in Asia that will influence a dozen other markets in the years ahead.

OR250 million ($650 million) sukuk

Euromoney highlights six of the strongest key innovations in Islamic finance from the last 12 months.

UK Export Finance $913 million sukuk (Khadrawy)

The Shariah-complaint finance sector has been growing strongly, but only in a few jurisdictions and with limited product diversity. As oil-derived liquidity flows dry up in its core markets in the Gulf, what can it do to fix its lack of international reach?

A plunging country risk score illustrates how the problems are still mounting for Africa’s largest economy.

If digital payment providers share the cost of building new networks, they might profit handsomely from high volumes of low-value payments between two billion people unserved today by the world’s conventional banks, and become a new testing ground for fintech.

They’re cheering in Bratislava as changing country-risk perceptions make Slovakia the safer option.

Citi JV opts for Hong Kong for IPO, but should it have gone six months ago?

Large swaths of Nomura’s European equity business were closed down on Tuesday morning, with hundreds of bankers across equity underwriting, equity research, sales and equity derivatives informed they were to pack up and leave. Bankers at the firm tell Euromoney it was no surprise cuts were on the way, but selective pruning had been considered a more likely course than the scale of withdrawal that has been implemented.

The country faces many challenges as it prepares to make itself the global growth leader of tomorrow, not least in infrastructure, capital-market development and up-skilling its workforce. Part of the solution is to make itself more attractive to foreign investors.

With a can-do attitude, the island nation is working hard to move up the league tables by improving domestic conditions for business and inward investment and prompting its international ambitions by signing free-trade agreements with its neighbours.

Country risk scores for many of the large emerging markets (EMs) continued to fall in the first months of the year. Risk scores have now reached levels that do not preclude another global shock if China hits the skids.

Plans to pre-fund 2017 in second quarter; Brazil and Argentina imperil growth and investment.

Cheapest access to dollars: politics helps mask economic realities.

Shores up confidence; retains minority Swiss bank stake.