After nearly four years of stagnation, Egypt’s economy is back on track and attracting increasing interest from regional and international investors.

Egypt remains a high-risk portfolio option. However the partial, and yet sustained, rebound in its total risk score since September 2014 is a clear sign of investor confidence slowly returning now that the aftershocks of the Arab Spring are finally abating.

Africa’s rich resources, natural and human, are luring capital, but investors will need to move fast.

The dilemma has never been more vexing. Banks and corporates are under ever more pressure to cut costs and streamline their operations, making it increasingly difficult to justify extravagant technology investment. Yet the risk of getting left behind has never been greater.

Ron Leven, PhD, Head of FX Pre-Trade Strategy, offers thoughts on the trends in vols and their effects

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Chinese renminbi is well on its way to becoming a major global currency, driven by the commitment of Chinese and international authorities to develop the necessary market infrastructure.

Investigations into benchmark manipulation have cast a long shadow over the FX industry, but efforts to address what went wrong through stronger behavioural standards are now well advance

The provision and consumption of liquidity in the FX market has evolved in recent years, with new participants and distribution mechanisms, but concerns have been raised about the market’s resilience at times of stress.

Data from Euromoney’s survey of country risk suggests economists are increasingly optimistic about the Hungarian economy.

As economy minister and central bank governor, György Matolcsy has been one of the leaders of Hungary’s unconventional drive to economic recovery

Hungary may have steered an unorthodox economic policy course but it seems to have worked, pulling the country out of recession and putting it back on a growth path.

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Foreign investors are starting to appreciate the opportunities available in an economy that has turned itself around.

Hungary is set to receive $29 billion in EU funding for development over the next seven years.

Hungary’s medium-sized industrial firms are becoming more competitive and exporting on a European scale.

Growing Hungarian companies are increasingly looking for equity funding. The 150-year-old Budapest Stock Exchange is ready to help.

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Hungary’s banking sector is one of the region’s most exciting and innovative, stimulated by greater competition and government moves to tackle bad debts.

China is the world’s fastest-growing car market – and Beijing ETOWN is home to a Mercedes-Benz plant that is creating luxury models tailor-made for Chinese drivers and is breaking new ground in the country’s luxury car market.

With an impressive collection of some of the country’s best and most innovative young IT experts, Beijing ETOWN is creating China’s answer to Silicon Valley with a hub for the emerging cloud computing industry.

Business is flourishing at Beijing ETOWN thanks to meticulous planning, first-class facilities and powerful government support. Now the zone is preparing for the challenges – and opportunities – that lie ahead.

Beijing ETOWN has established itself as a leading base for the equipment-manufacturing sector by offering powerful administrative support and meeting the expectations of hi-tech companies from countries such as Germany and Japan.

Biomedicine is one of the fastest-growing fields in China. Its success has triggered the return from abroad of talented graduates who are flocking home to take up positions with dynamic companies based in the biomedicine sector of Beijing ETOWN.

The remarkable rise and rise of Beijing ETOWN over the past two decades mirrors China’s transformation from the world’s workshop to a globally competitive hub for innovation, technology and high-end industry.

Beijing ETOWN is home to some of China’s most progressive new IT companies. Their growth over the past decade has been a result of an unusual level of cooperation between different companies and with the local government in the hi-tech zone.

Beijing ETOWN is a greenhouse for innovative domestic Chinese companies to flourish and reach out to a global marketplace – even though sometimes their products are much more visible than their names.

Beijing ETOWN is an ideal home from home for an impressive A-list of global brand-name companies that use the hi-tech zone as a base for their China and Asia operations. Executives at GE Healthcare explain why being there gives them a competitive advantage.