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Emerging markets investors are looking ahead to a series of privatisations in Kazakhstan following the economic reforms unveiled by outgoing president Nursultan Nazarbayev that should be implemented by his successor

After years of isolation, Uzbekistan has started to forcefully address its economic challenges and exploit its inherent advantages in a way that offers the potential to make this resource-rich market a stronger player in the global economy

Four decades after declaring independence, a successful Eurobond issue and major reforms show Uzbekistan is finally growing up and engaging with the world on its own terms

After being off limits to foreign investors for many years, Uzbekistan has raced to catch up for lost time by seeking investments by European banks and international financial institutions

After decades of self-imposed isolation, Uzbekistan is embarking on a range of projects with the help of Chinese assistance — and finance — to slowly start to stitch a recently remote country back into the global economy

Since late 2016, Uzbekistan has embarked on large-scale institutional, economic and social reforms under President Mirziyoyev’s administration.

Turkey’s national election board has cancelled the results of the Istanbul mayoral race that president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party lost in March and ordered a rerun. This is widely thought of internationally as a blow to democracy, and in Istanbul citizens have taken to the streets in protest. But Erdoğan’s behaviour has been so unpredictable in the past year that there is hope the rerun in June will be free and fair enough for investors to breathe easy. It seems a bet made more in hope than expectation.

Equity investors are too complacent about the prospects of the wheels coming off of trade talks between China and the US. Such optimism could wreck equity capital markets for the year if negotiations sour,

In this round-up, US president Donald Trump threatened more tariffs days before the eleventh round of trade talks, Bond Connect gained 134 new foreign institutional investors in April thanks to Chinese bond inclusion, and China’s State Council standardised government investment.

In this round-up, the trade negotiation between China and the US finished its tenth round, China PMI fell in April after previously rebounding and the chairman of the banking and insurance regulator promised more reform.

Dismal European growth has weighed on rates, forcing buyers down the curve in search of yield and spread. A sharp turnaround feels distant, but a stabilisation has already materialised and investors that piled into long-dated bonds may come to regret it.

Bitfinex, the often and rightly criticised cryptocurrency exchange, is in a standoff with the New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG), which has accused it of a $850m fraud.