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September 2011

Main

Top stories

Financing the food crisis

US farmers discover the price of globalization

Land grab raises concerns about food security

Investors out to make dough from Europe’s breadbasket

Latin America

Citi’s regional renaissance rests on Brazil

Vale: Working for the cash machine

FX derivatives fight history and a currency war

Capital markets pick up as Argentina booms

Financial crisis

Why nothing can prevent the next global financial crisis

Economics

Out of options: Even unprecedented central bank intervention can’t save the global economy now

Sovereign debt

Sovereign debt: Credit specialists dive in as SSA investors take fright

Investment

Investment: Brownian notions

Alan Brown: The future of the eurozone

Russia

Nomos takes on the big beasts of Russian banking

Russian state capital leads growth in tech sector

Turkey

Turkish banks rail against intervention

Turkey debate: A good time for Turkish business

Western Europe

Europe’s smaller banks face a long goodbye

Country risk

ECR Survey Results Q3 2011: Past defaults offer little comfort to troubled eurozone

Emerging Europe

Balkan promise

Middle East

Arab Spring: What revolution means for Arab banks

Egypt: Banking on a revolution

Bahrain: Like Wall Street, but now with guns

Mubadala sets a model for Middle East wealth funds

Bankers yearn for stability after the Arab Spring

Lebanon’s lost opportunity

Middle East debate: Open for business

Africa

Ecobank: Africa’s banking champion leaps forward

The final frontier: Africa for brave investors

Asia Pacific

What’s behind the great China stock scandals?

Inside China’s investment clubs

Asian equities: Asia’s battle of the brokers

Korn puts Shinawatra government on watch

Asean gets bullish on regional integration

China cash management debate: The challenges of Chinese cash management

Real estate

Real estate survey 2011: Can commercial real estate keep going up?

Real estate survey 2011: Results index

Structured products

Banks battle for structured products business

European SRP Euromoney Structured Retail Products survey 2011: Local presence still counts in structured retail products

Liquidity management

Liquidity management debate: Preserving liquidity in a challenging world

The 2011 guide to Liquidity Management

Banking news

Sovereign debt: Lenders urge governments to let them take losses

France: Société Générale hits back at critics

Employment: Financial industry lay-offs rising

Bank capital: BofA sells CCB stake, takes Buffett’s cash

Markets news

Investment grade corporates: US investment-grade issuers reap risk-off rewards

US municipal debt: Muni market double-dip worries build

Foreign exchange: SDR revision taskforce paves way for renminbi rise

Western Europe: Covered bond market reopens to top tier

Foreign exchange: Is the Hong Kong peg to the dollar unsustainable?

Non-performing loans: German NPL sale is blueprint for asset disposals

Commercial real estate: UK CRE loan defaults hit 30%

Asia news

Insurance: AIA’s Tucker plots next move after record

Mongolia: Politics threaten to delay landmark Tavan Tolgoi IPO

China local debt: Restructuring urged as liquidity squeezes continue

Latin America news

Capital markets: Latin America resilient, if not decoupled

Brazil: Global real bonds offer opportunity for select credits

Stockbroking: Risk controls improve at Brazilian brokerages

Equities: Colombia activity is a bright spot for markets

EEMEA news

Kazakhstan: Debt restructuring issues weigh on banking sector

Russia plans tax increases for a balanced budget

Slovenia: Economic woes lead to political upheaval

Middle East: Global banks cut Gulf staff

Africa: Standard Bank uses new cash for Africa

Comment

Eurozone debt crisis: Lagarde talks tough

Middle Eastern banking: Hopes and fears

Sovereign debt crisis is a bank debt crisis too

BTG Pactual: Premature extrapolation

Regulation: Political risks rise in Turkey

US debt capital markets: Best take a longer holiday

Columns

Abigail with attitude

Macaskill on markets: Buffett gets the bounty with Bank of America job

Macaskill on Markets: How Warren washes over his derivatives cunning

Against the tide: Bernanke misses his chance

Inside investment: The Super Glue generation

Editor's letter: The food time bomb ticks on

Front End

Throwing the book at Sir Fred

Europe at a cross Rhodes

Hedge funds: Truth and lies on Wall Street

Keep your head down

Barclays’ weather bogey

Quotes of the month

Off the record