The vexed battle to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continues amid risk aversion, economic weakness, new regulations and banks’ balance-sheet repair.

Lifting restrictions on foreign investors and encouraging local corporate bond issuance top list of priorities for head of new capital markets agency.

Euromoney explores bond liquidity and investigates the winners and losers.

Private equity was once a peripheral pursuit in the country – no longer.

Pakistan is a bailout addict, having spent 22 of the last 30 years in the fund’s intensive care, but can Imran Khan’s new government break that dependency? His finance minister says he has the cure.

Three years after it was founded, Yangon Stock Exchange is marooned, which doesn’t augur well for developing the capital markets.

There is no shortage of problems to tackle when bankers, economists and investors gather at the Asian Development Bank meetings in early May.

What has Trump's presidency meant for banking and financial markets? Unsurprisingly, things haven't gone as expected.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is looking for a new chief executive to replace Norman Chan later this year, but if history is any guide, don’t expect it to look very far.

The government is pushing structural reforms despite the economic crisis; new tax regulations aimed to bring money onshore.

There are key differences between the growth outlook for Argentina’s banks today and that of Brazil’s banks from 2003 to 2008.

Monetary policy is now much more effective in Brazil and it’s having some interesting consequences.

The performance of the share price in Sea was unusually strong; part of the reason is the magic name Tencent on the shareholder register.

The 50th anniversary issues of Euromoney are forcing journalists to take a broader sweep of the issues we cover than the usual month-by-month perspective.

Recoveries, reschedulings, crises and scandal: no region’s financial markets have been as turbulent as Latin America’s over the last five decades.

Working in Beirut in 1974 was a formative experience for Padraic Fallon, the long-serving editor and later chairman of Euromoney, and since then the magazine has set the standard for coverage of this often misunderstood region.

Of all the global corridors of trade and investment, the one between Latin America and the Middle East is among the least travelled.

Argentina is on a precipice, Venezuela has a humanitarian crisis and Brazil is just exiting its worst-ever recession – so far, so Latin America.

While the region has proved its economic and financial resilience in recent years, it’s time to look ahead and become competitive for whatever the next 50 years will bring, says former Colombia finance minister Mauricio Cárdenas.

Less than five years after Euromoney began, the Arab oil embargo gave international finance a shot in the arm and provided an extraordinary windfall to the Gulf, but as the oil boom has repeatedly turned to bust, commodity cycles have laid bare the vacuity of the region’s diversification programmes.

Over 50 years, leaders of Middle East financial institutions have steered their businesses through very good and very bad times, including oil price crashes, rampant property and stock speculation, and war.

For nearly two decades Dubai has acted as the beating heart of Middle Eastern finance, but now its long-dormant rivals are mounting successful efforts to reclaim a piece of the action.

War and revolution have shaped the Middle East’s recent history and have left their mark on the banking sector.

Islamic finance has come a long way over the past few decades, maturing into a $2.4 trillion industry, but some long-term problems remain and the recent wrangle over a Dana Gas sukuk shows credibility is still an issue.

There is much fanfare about the decision to increase the weighting of A-shares in MSCI indices.