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The rise in global risk witnessed in 2013 continued during the first quarter of this year as experts taking part in Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey reassessed the investment prospects of EMs versus their developed-country counterparts.

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Published in conjunction with Euromoney Country Risk and the Central Bank of Barbados

Euromoney’s deals of the year for 2013 show that, despite prolonged periods of market uncertainty, smart issuers and their advisers managed to get some remarkable things done.

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Global risk continued to rise in 2013, according to the latest results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey. Gloomy analysts remain cautious on the eurozone and the potential impact of the withdrawal of US monetary stimulus on capital flows to emerging market economies.

Euromoney’s annual Asia company ranking is based on a survey of market analysts at leading banks and research institutes in Asia.

Small and medium-sized enterprises are meant to be the machine that drives Europe’s growth-free markets to recovery. But each country’s environment for SME funding remains even more disparate than their economies.

Euromoney explores the changing face of Russian finance, with a new generation of firms competing with established players in a crowded investment-banking scene. Coverage includes macro risk, Sberbank's investment-banking dynamo, Renaissance Capital's great expectations, the consumer-banking boom and the commodities cycle.

The latest developments in the cash management industry.

Published in conjunction with Bradesco and Banco Itaú

Euromoney’s annual survey invites investors to rate the quality of bank research on Middle Eastern equity and debt bearing in mind overall performance and accuracy.

More than five years on from the credit crunch that shook the world to its core, tail risks continue to undermine investor returns, according to the latest quarterly results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the finance minister of Singapore, has been named Euromoney’s Finance Minister of the Year 2013.

Agustín Carstens, the governor of the Bank of Mexico, has been named Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year 2013.

This is the most comprehensive guide to the cash management arena in the market.

An in-depth look at the state-owned sovereign wealth funds that are now dominating the attention of the world's financial markets. Read Euromoney's unrivalled guide to the different strategies and investment styles of these hugely important funds – and learn how investment banks are trying to maximise their business with them.

Agustín Carstens is an orthodox central banker in an increasingly unorthodox world. Inheriting an impressive legacy, he has continued the Mexican central bank’s inflation-targeting work while keeping a pragmatic eye on growth. Growth potential is almost unrivalled and Carstens seems intent on ensuring that Mexico’s voice is heard in a new, multi-polar financial world.

Singapore is shifting its growth model from population-driven to productivity-driven expansion, while maintaining its status as an innovative trade and financial-services hub to diversified export markets. Finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has played an overarching role in the city-state’s economy and serves as the region’s statesman on the international stage.

Euromoney’s round-up of recent coverage of industry trends, including regulation and capital-raising – the US M&A trail, leverage-ratio fight, tier 1 issuance and the banking union drive – and an investigation into illiquidity in the corporate bond market. We also explore trends in bank M&A in the Middle East, the competitive landscape for lenders in Saudi Arabia, recovering banks in the CEE – and China’s grey financial sector, among other things.

Published in conjunction with: ABN Amro • BNP Paribas • Citi • RBS • Standard Chartered Bank

The Czech crown weakened this week after Miroslav Singer, the head of the country’s central bank (CNB), revealed in an interview with Euromoney his controversial support for intervention in the FX market to avoid Japanese-style deflation, in the teeth of resistance from some CNB board members.

Blackstone is not just the biggest real estate investor in the world today, it’s the best according to the annual Euromoney survey. CBRE and Hines maintain their leading positions as advisors and developers respectively, while JPMorgan dislodges Deutsche Bank as the top real estate bank overall