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The boom in the Qatari real estate market that has been an inevitable by-product of the spectacular growth of the economy in recent years and the surge in demand for residential as well as commercial property that has emerged as a result.

The financing for Peru’s biggest ever project is in the final stages after a $3.8 billion package was signed last month.

IPO ends long struggle for the gambling tycoon.

The Merrill chief’s honeymoon is over. The question now is whether he’s guilty of misjudgment or mismanagement.

The annual Daiwa SMBC debt syndicate summer press party will stay in the memory of all who attended. But not just because of the fine wine, company and fare on offer at Sweetings, a City of London culinary institution. An unintended level of prescience led European head of fixed income at the Japanese brokerage Andrew Asbury to decide that the theme for the party would be based on reality TV programme The Apprentice. Asbury, affectionately known as Asbo in the industry, had partygoers vote for their favourite members of the Daiwa syndicate team. In keeping with the Apprentice theme, Asbo took up the role of Sir Alan Sugar/Donald Trump.

Qatar’s burgeoning economy has tripled in size over the past four years. A drive to diversify has achieved striking results in reducing dependence on oil and gas.

It’s a year since the credit crunch began and still there is no end in sight to the bloodletting. Alex Chambers looks at the prospects for bankers facing this unprecedented downturn as traditional alternative employment avenues, such as hedge funds, struggle to pick up the slack.

The effects of the credit crunch have spread across all areas of finance, affecting even the world’s most liquid market: swaps in euros. People still want to do business, but banks need to reorder their balance sheets and regain confidence. And that could take a long time.

These tongue-in-cheek versions of common financial parlance are particularly insightful given recent market events.

Citi is poised to unveil Stuart Sopp as its head of G10 spot FX trading for Asia. Sopp, who will be based in Singapore, was previously working at Deutsche Bank in Sydney, where he traded spot Commonwealth dollars. Before that, he was at Bank of New York in London. He will report to Pritpal Gil, Citi’s head of FX trading for Asia.

The many new financial services licences issued by the Capital Markets Authority in Saudi Arabia have presented international businesses with a challenge: which model to use to make the best of this new opportunity?

Hong Kong's Securities and Future Commission's (SFC) has approved State Street Global Advisors' fund to track the price of gold, despite its failure to meet the usual requirements for fund diversification.