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In September 2005, long before the eurozone sovereign crisis, Euromoney warned that EU countries were using ever-more complex means to hide their real levels of debt.

Tradition has it that the head of the Federal Reserve is the most influential central banker in the world. Ben Bernanke still is. But Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, is beginning to run him close.

Australia has struck it rich, and lucky, as it has used its natural resources to benefit from the China spending boom. But the careful stewardship of its treasurer, Wayne Swan, has played a key role in making it the best-performing economy among the world’s richer, developed nations. Not that he is likely to get much credit at home, as Eric Ellis reports.

LONDON, 20/09/11: Australia’s deputy prime minister Wayne Swan is today named as Euromoney’s Finance Minister of the Year 2011.

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The euro crisis has already resulted in the region’s country risk scores falling by a greater margin than the Asian economies in 1997. That’s before any of the countries involved has actually defaulted. Andrew Mortimer asks: how many years will Europe take to recover?

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Country risk rankings are dropping sharply in the Eurozone periphery and across the entire Middle East, including Qatar which had been viewed as relatively immune to the fallout from the Arab Spring. Andrew Mortimer reports.

In uncertain credit markets, the value of best-in-market research has risen. The results of our survey of more than 1,800 bond investors shows the competition among the top-rated analysts is greater than ever before.

Euromoney’s Best borrowers capture the most important names and trends seen across the globe during the past 12 months.

The world’s largest borrowers in the international bond markets rate the products and services offered by the biggest deal arrangers. Who's best at pricing and distribution, team coverage, secondary market support and issuer research? Find out here.

A new Euromoney survey shows three established leaders have high market shares and plenty of rivals. Large banks, recovering from their own near-death experiences, have singled out rates as one of the first businesses to fight their way back into. Newcomers are pitching in too.

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Euromoney’s latest country risk results reflect political turmoil in the Middle East and the continued uncertainty within the Eurozone. The global recovery is in serious danger of being undermined by a host of financial and political risks. Andrew Mortimer reports.

The capital markets experienced peaks and trough in 2010. The first quarter saw Greece descending into chaos, the second an EU bailout solution, then relative calm before the bond markets took Ireland down. Deal volumes were down but the year’s top deals set some defining trends. Hamish Risk and Peter Lee report.