March 2010
Two multi-billion-dollar telecom deals might well fail to indicate a boom in links between emerging markets and Africa.
January 2010
Includes Bonds, Equities, Loans, M&A, MTN, Project Finance
March 2010
The banking industry’s key challenge remains to stabilize its own sources of finance. Regulators and creditors have pressed banks to build their deposit gathering and extend the term of their market borrowings, with some policymakers calling for levies on non-deposit borrowings.
March 2010
After a year that turned out better than anyone could have expected, 2010 began with a new bout of nerves on financial markets.
March 2010
March 2010
Liquid Real Estate Issue 09
Al Madina A’Zarqa, one of Oman’s largest developments, is part of the Sultanate’s plans to diversify its oil-centric economy. This project has already fallen behind schedule. Richard Russell, its newly appointed chief executive, speaks to Chris Wright about getting back on track.
December 2009
Dubai World’s restructuring shows investors cannot make any easy assumptions when it comes to quasi-sovereign debt. By Sudip Roy.
November 2009
The news that the state-owned company has asked for a credit standstill badly damages the emirate’s reputation.
March 2010
Volume figures released during February confirm further increases in FX flow.
February 2010
March 2010
Dar Al Arkan’s sukuk could have hardly come at a better time for Saudi Arabia.
March 2010
Despite shaky state finances, the country’s banking system has so far avoided disaster, partly thanks to the caution of central bank governor Umayya Toukan. But can the kingdom remain a haven of stability? Dominic O’Neill reports.
March 2010
WestLB has perhaps become one of the Middle East’s less enchanting mysteries. The Düsseldorf-based lender has somehow been involved in almost all of the most publicized credit crises in the Arabian Peninsula over the past two years.
February 2010
Qatar Financial Centre move to attract asset management and insurance come as questions over David Proctor detention grow; Doha exchange makes international appointments.