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News of an election is already perking up the Germany economy. If a centre-right coalition wins, as seems likely, expect yet more improvement

Iraq's Paris Club deal was exceptional on many levels – not least that it was mainly worked out in capitals far away from Paris. The deal arrived in November 2004 – more than a month ahead of schedule – thanks to some fortuitous timing. Iraq's Paris Club meeting happened to coincide with both a G20 meeting in Berlin and an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting in Santiago, which gave the mid-level finance ministry functionaries in Paris the ability to easily escalate negotiations to the finance-minister or even head-of-state level.

Dragos Neacsu, a former civil engineer and latterly investment banker, has taken on the challenge of overcoming the many shortcomings of Romania's debt strategy from the foundations up.

Grigorii Marchenko, chief executive of Halyk Bank and former governor of Kazakhstan's central bank, talks to Euromoney about bank capitalization, the development of consumer banking products, Kazakhstan's economic policy and the country's regional role.

Eastern European equity had a summer of love, as stockmarkets from Budapest to Istanbul hit all-time highs. Russia, last year's chronic underachiever, has been the best performer of all.

Despite previously criticizing ABS, the new regime can't ignore benefits

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Greater transparency is essential for ABS to be used as repo collateral

The UK government has been in talks with members of the property industry for years about the potential of real estate investment trusts (Reits), a new tax-efficient way of investing in property. If the UK sanctioned a US model, Reits would not have to pay tax on their income as long as they distributed a high proportion of the cash – usually between 50% and 60% of revenues – to shareholders.

In your latest quarterly inflation report you suggested that you'd overshoot the target. Is that correct?

Ukraine's president Viktor Yushchenko has had a roller-coaster 12 months. He was poisoned, faced rigged election results and was then swept to power on the back of a peaceful revolution that split Ukrainian opinion in two. Now the time has come to show whether he can deliver on his pledges. Euromoney quizzed Yushchenko on how he intends to do this