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13 October, 2015

One in Five People Worldwide Have Used Their Cellphone for Banking

Forbes.com, October 13 2015 Read it at Forbes,com here
1 October, 2015

Global Capital Samurai Issuer Profiles: Maybank, Rabobank, BPCE and Macquarie

Global Capital, IMF editions, October 2015 Maybank Maybank became the first Asia Pacific issuer to launch a pro-bond […]
1 October, 2015

Global Capital Roundtable: European Samurai Borrowers

Global Capital, October 2015 European banks have been the mainstay of the samurai market over the last 12 […]
1 October, 2015

Global Capital Roundtable: Emerging Market Sovereigns in the Japanese Capital Markets

Global Capital, October 2015  An evolution is happening in emerging markets’ use of yen funding. For many years, […]
1 October, 2015

Global Capital Roundtable: Asia Pacific FIG Borrowers in the Japanese Capital Markets

Global Capital – IMF editions, October 2015 Korean banks have pulled back somewhat from the samurai market, as […]
1 October, 2015

Iran: The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Inconvenient

Euromoney, October 2015 What’s in a name? Plenty, it seems, if it’s similar to one on a sanction […]
1 October, 2015

Iran: It’s Clearly Unclear

Euromoney, October 2015 As a lifting of sanctions on Iran edges ever closer, September provided two indications of […]
1 October, 2015

ADCB Bond Pullout Raises Liquidity Questions

Euromoney, October 2015 On September 21, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank pulled out of a dollar bond halfway through […]
1 October, 2015

Emerging Markets: Low Oil Prices and the Middle East Capital Markets

Emerging Markets, IMF Editions, October 2015 It is an unfortunate coincidence that at exactly the point when Saudi […]
1 October, 2015

Emerging Markets: Pro-Bonds Finding their Feet

Emerging Markets, IMF editions, October 2015 For years, it looked like the Tokyo Pro-Bond market was going to […]
1 October, 2015

Emerging Markets: Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of the Year, Asia

Emerging Markets IMF editions, October 2015 Over the last 18 months, most of the plaudits for India’s relative […]
1 October, 2015

Emerging Markets: China’s New Silk Road Big on Ambition, But is Anything Happening?

Emerging markets, IMF editions, October 2015 For two years now, evocative maps of ancient trade routes have been […]