10 April, 2012
Reality bites: the truth about investment banking in Asia
1 February, 2016

Qatar Financial Centre: From Differentiation Pains to Diversification Gains?

Euromoney, February 2016 There is a new website at the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC). ’10 Years’, the home […]
6 January, 2016

New Kids of Finance Start Playing with the Grown-Ups

Global Capital, January 2016   It seems hard to recall a world in which crowdfunding was not part […]
1 January, 2016

Jo’burg: Bags of Potential, Needs Help

Global Capital, December 2016 South Africa has a lot going for it as a financial hub for Sub-Saharan […]
1 December, 2015

Thursby Says NBAD’s Global Ambitions Intact

Euromoney, December 2015 The tightening liquidity squeeze in the Gulf has triggered questions about the ambitious international expansion […]
1 November, 2015

Gulf Markets: The Liquidity Well Runs Dry

Euromoney, November 2015 There are two trends underway in the Gulf capital markets today, individually interesting but problematic […]
1 November, 2015

Rahman Makes Bangladesh an Outlier Among Bleak Emerging Markets

Euromoney, November 2015  If Bangladesh is the world’s most perilous economy, it appears that nobody has told the […]
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

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: Atiur Rahman, Central Bank Governor of the Year, Asia

Emerging Markets, IMF Editions, October 2015 Central Bank Governor of the Year, Asia: Atiur Rahman Financial inclusion or […]
1 October, 2015

Turkey Looks For Light Amid the Gloom

Institutional Investor, IMF edition, Sept/Oct 2015 Turkey finds itself battered by macroeconomic concerns that it can do little […]