Sudip Roy

Recent stories by Sudip Roy

• Crisis? What crisis? South Africa beats against the headwinds

  Bad infrastructure, a weak economy and vulnerable financial assets – but bankers in South Africa remain confident.

  Euromoney May 2008

• Mongolia: Khan Bank mulls fund options

  Euromoney May 2008

• Infrastructure financing: Eurasian Development Bank broadens strategy

  Euromoney May 2008

• African banking: Barclays and Absa fall out over bank sales

  Cross-border partnerships are tricky at the best of times. Each side tends to be wary of the other. Often cultural differences come to the fore. And then there’s the internal politics. So the failure of Barclays and Absa, the South African bank in which Barclays holds a 60% stake, to reach agreement on the sale of the UK bank’s other African businesses will only reinforce the impression that the relationship is tense.

  Euromoney April 2008

• Pakistan’s central bank head takes an optimistic view

  Even given its tumultuous history, the past few months have been especially volatile in Pakistan, highlighted by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. From a financial perspective, the country faces several problems, in particular rising inflation. Shamshad Akhtar, governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, tells Sudip Roy why, despite this, she is confident about the nation’s medium-term prospects.

  Euromoney April 2008

• Structured finance: ABN Amro launches Brazilian CLO

  Euromoney March 2008

• Chávez watch: US motorists calmed

  Euromoney March 2008

• Egypt’s bankers start to get the taste for change

  Egypt’s banking system is undergoing wide-ranging reforms designed to make it more competitive. Have the lessons from the past finally been learnt?

  Euromoney March 2008

• Eloy Garcia, formerly of the IDB: A cool head in a crisis

  Eloy Garcia spent 35 years at the Inter-American Development Bank, most recently as a treasurer, before retiring last year. Now a professor at Johns Hopkins University, he tells Sudip Roy of the enormous challenges the bank and the Latin American region have faced and the progress made.

  Euromoney March 2008

• GE Money: Feeling the GE force

  GE Money, the consumer finance and banking arm of General Electric, is growing quickly in central and eastern Europe. Sudip Roy talks to two of the firm’s senior executives about its expansion plans.

  Euromoney January 2008

• GE Money: An emerging markets powerhouse

  Euromoney January 2008

• Latin American perpetual bonds surpass expectations

  A bull-market product that would crash and burn in the event of a credit crisis: that was the view that many critics held of perpetual bonds – a fundraising instrument that has been all the rage in the region in recent years.

  Euromoney January 2008

• Yousef Hussein Kamal: A man of many parts

  Euromoney December 2007

• Sovereign wealth funds: The new rulers of finance

  State-owned, cash-rich and increasingly influential, sovereign wealth funds have emerged as the most controversial players in the financial markets. All the constituents – banks, private equity, corporates, hedge funds – want a slice of their action. Just how powerful will the funds become? Sudip Roy reports.

  Euromoney December 2007

• Sovereign wealth funds: Getting the basics right

  It is one thing to want a sovereign wealth fund but to actually set one up is a long and challenging process, as countries such as Brazil are discovering. Key issues such as infrastructure, hiring people and asset allocation need to be addressed before the investing process can even be considered.

  Euromoney December 2007

• Financial institutions weigh up business opportunities

  The proliferation of sovereign wealth funds is an opportunity and challenge for investment banks and asset managers.

  Euromoney December 2007

• Chávez watch: Spanish king tells him to shut up

  Euromoney December 2007

• Sovereign wealth funds: The new rulers of finance

  State-owned, cash-rich and increasingly influential, sovereign wealth funds have emerged as the most controversial players in the financial markets. All the constituents – banks, private equity, corporates, hedge funds – want a slice of their action. Just how powerful will the funds become? Sudip Roy reports.

  Published November 2007 euromoney.com

• Getting the basics right

  Published November 2007 euromoney.com