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CAPITAL MARKETS

The debt case for Middle East investment

Saudi Arabia and Iran have been presented chiefly as an opportunity on the equity side, but both markets are attracting interest from the fixed income community as well.

Chris Wright, September 21, 2015

BANKING

Croatia's Vujcic stares down the doom-mongers

The country’s bloated public sector and rapidly rising government debt burden have alarmed analysts and prompted comparisons with Greece. As the nation emerges from six years of recession, however, central bank governor Boris Vujcic argues that there is much to celebrate.

Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, September 21, 2015

BANKING

Iran: On the road outside the capital

Iran is big. Iranians are fond of telling visitors that it experiences four distinct climates at any one time, from snowbound mountains to deserts, and its 80 million people are spread across a multitude of diverse locations outside Tehran; indeed, the tourist industry, should it ever truly take off, will be pretty much everywhere but the traffic-throttled, daunting sprawl of the capital.

Chris Wright, September 18, 2015

BANKING

Chinese investment banks: Calmer chameleons

Asia’s growing band of big, local investment banks won’t let short-term market fluctuations affect their planned transitions from national to regional leadership

Eric Ellis, September 18, 2015

Opinion

Off Message: Getting on the bus

This column’s author had an inside view of the Chemical/Chase merger 20 years ago.

September 18, 2015

BANKING

Iran plots path from sanctions to action

The country’s return to the fold of international finance is likely to be as long and winding as the road to the lifting of sanctions. But that hasn’t stopped forward-thinkers in Tehran’s financial elite plotting a vision for their banks and financial markets. Can it possibly live up to its billing in some quarters as ‘the most exciting investment in the world’?

Chris Wright, September 18, 2015

BANKING

NBIM sovereign wealth fund: Norway’s supertanker maximizes its impact

The country’s sovereign wealth fund is probably the largest in the world, and certainly the most transparent – a double act that creates challenges for the 450 people who run it. How does one run a fund twice the size of the national economy it supports, one so big that markets move at the mere thought of what it might do next? Two of NBIM’s CIOs explain.

Chris Wright, September 18, 2015

Foreign Exchange

TradeTech FX: Buy side wises up to benchmarks

The importance of foreign exchange is fast rising on the buy-side agenda, as asset managers start to question how good a deal they get on their currency trades in light of the benchmark reform after the fix scandal, according to market participants at this year's TradeTech FX conference.

Farah Khalique, September 18, 2015

Foreign Exchange

TradeTech FX: Top themes facing the industry

Clients are demanding better price transparency, regulators are sniffing around common trading practices, and markets are bracing for further Asia-driven volatility, say foreign-exchange professionals at this year’s TradeTech FX conference.

Farah Khalique, September 18, 2015

Foreign Exchange

Fund managers mull trades in choppy FX markets

Volatility is back with a bang as traders seek to make sense of an uncertain global macroeconomic outlook. Fund managers lay out trading strategies drawing from CHF and CNY lessons, and one fears Japan and China are now in similar situations to Switzerland.

Solomon Teague, September 17, 2015

Euromoney Country Risk

Cyprus almost as safe as Portugal

The island state has returned to growth earlier than expected in spite of its trade and banking-sector exposures to Greece, after the banking crisis caused a severe macro-economic adjustment.

Jeremy Weltman, September 17, 2015

Opinion

Inside investment: Bankers and regulators – Let’s all take the oath

The wisdom of ages needs to be heeded by bankers, investors, policymakers and regulators alike if we are to avoid lurching from crisis to crises, to the end of days.

Andrew Capon, September 17, 2015

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