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Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey 2010:
Country risk 2010:

Country risk 2010:

Bi-annual Country risk survey monitoring political and economic stability of 186 countries

Middle East and Africa

Africa: An over-hyped trend

March 2010

Two multi-billion-dollar telecom deals might well fail to indicate a boom in links between emerging markets and Africa.

Banking league tables - Year end 2009

January 2010

Includes Bonds, Equities, Loans, M&A, MTN, Project Finance

Banks struggle to meet funding challenge

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.

Country risk March 2010: A fragile sense of stability

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.

Country risk March 2010: Full results (popup)

March 2010

Country risk March 2010: Key political and economic risk indicators

March 2010

Developer profile: Tales from the Blue City

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.

Dubai debt crisis: Nakheel bondholders have to take the pain

December 2009

Dubai World’s restructuring shows investors cannot make any easy assumptions when it comes to quasi-sovereign debt. By Sudip Roy.

Dubai World shocks investors

November 2009

The news that the state-owned company has asked for a credit standstill badly damages the emirate’s reputation.

FX: Volumes continue to pick up

March 2010

Volume figures released during February confirm further increases in FX flow.

HSBC’s Ross takes on new Islamic finance role

February 2010

Islamic finance: Dar Al Arkan sukuk breaks Gulf drought

March 2010

Dar Al Arkan’s sukuk could have hardly come at a better time for Saudi Arabia.

Jordan staves off two crises

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.

Middle East debt: WestLB finds little warmth from the Gulf

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.

Qatar overhauls financial centre’s strategy

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.

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