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Winner: Al Rajhi Bank Of the four biggest project finance deals in the world last year, Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi Bank participated in two: the $10 billion Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Complex and the $5.6 billion Ma’aden-Sabic Fertilizer Complex Project.

Winner: HSBC Amanah

Winner: Standard Chartered Saadiq

Winner: SABB Takaful

Winner: KPMG

Winner: Deutsche Bank

Last month in this space Euromoney predicted the rise of a breed of analysts somewhat clumsily dubbed ‘below eight-percenters’, that is analysts forecasting GDP growth rates for China in 2009 below the 8% threshold that was the consensus towards the end of last year and was the government target. So it has come to pass, and sooner than expected: a note published on January 5 by Jun Ma, chief economist at Deutsche Bank, predicts GDP growth for China to decline to 7% in 2009 and 6.6% in 2010. The team at RBS were gloomier still just over two weeks later, forecasting 6% for 2009. Will the first ‘below five-percenters’ please make themselves known?

The most canny issuers in 2008 were those that realized it was important to get on and raise capital even if the price was not great. Waiting for the market to improve was and remains a potentially fatal strategy. Alex Chambers reports.

Professionalism and understanding of the market sets the best deals apart.

A looming recession threatens a shake-up of the country’s staid industries. A boldly led Japan Inc would help the global economy. But such leadership has been promised before and never delivered. Lawrence White reports.