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Looming implementation of the EU Prospectus Directive is adding momentum

Combined group has the potential to be a domestic market leader

The expansion of the MENA region's equity and debt capital markets must go hand in hand with stronger corporate governance and financial regulation. Financial market reform requires better governance structures, necessitating legal reforms as well as improvements in policies and procedures required to foster private sector development and tackle inefficient, ineffective and discriminatory government practices.

The Asian bond markets have given investors an easy ride in the past two years. Now, with inflation and interest rate uncertainty, buyers need to be smarter.

A research report published in May by the Institute for Monetary and Economic Research, part of Korea's central bank, recommends that regulators in Korea promote more investment in domestic banks by domestic investors at the expense of foreign capital.

Is Germany really ready for full-blooded capitalism? That was the theme of the first Euromoney German Capital Markets Forum, which saw a lively debate on how Germany will finance itself in the future.

It's a sure sign of a nervous credit market when even a monoline insurer's spreads can blow out by 30 basis points in a matter of days. MBIA says its triple-A rating is unimpeachable. Most people agree. But the worm of doubt has been released. Peter Lee reports.

International oil and gas companies dominate foreign direct investment in Nigeria, while foreign investors have traditionally invested in breweries, food and bottling companies and car manufacturers as strategic investors or via the stock market. But recently the telecommunications industry has become something of a phenomenon

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A Goldman Sachs trading game at the Trade Tech Equities conference in Paris this April was billed as "five hours to make a million."

Land Securities

UBS economist Jonathan Anderson describes its as "one of the most, nay, the most overly-hyped themes in the markets today". But the question of when and if the Chinese renminbi – currently pegged at 8.28 renminbi to one US dollar – will be revalued against the US currency continues to fascinate and obsess global foreign exchange markets. There appears to be a growing consensus among analysts that the Chinese government will make some adjustment to the peg in the near future, perhaps even in the present quarter.