April 2013

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Top stories

Banking Asia’s global champions

Lenovo lays down the law for its bankers

Asia Pacific

Fernandes fires up Asian expansion

CGCs: China’s murky credit channels

The Philippines: Under-rated but not ignored

Peace moves should boost Philippine GDP

Foreign investors flock into the Philippines

Thailand harnesses the power of private capital

Asean: The challenges of regional union

Thai M&A enjoys healthy growth

The rebalancing of Asian investment banking

Middle East

The battle for the Libyan Investment Authority

Libyan Investment Authority: The KPMG reports

Lebanon: Private-sector success cries out for public-sector reforms

Investcorp: The house that Kirdar built

Western Europe

Monte dei Paschi: Shaken to its foundations

Country risk

Emerging Europe

Grigoriy Marchenko: Kazakhstan gets serious on bad debt

Banking

Umpqua redesigns retail banking

Banking news

Regulatory capital: Banks spring clean complex credit exposure

Capital markets: Is Citi the new golden child of Wall Street?

Cyprus marks end for pooled deposit insurance in Europe

Markets news

Asset management: Investors get smart on asymmetric credit risk

Financial repression is the last support for Spanish government bonds

Private placements: Diversification drives US private placements

Oaktree’s Marks: Opportunity in Europe not what we thought it would be

Dollar shedding its funding currency status

Sterling bears caught short, but pound still vulnerable

Asia news

Asian banking: Kate Richdale’s move is the talk of the town

Asian inflation-linked bonds come of age amid strong demand for Thailand’s second issue

Latin America news

Latin America: CorpBanca bids to become regional force

Latin America: Investors shrug off high yield’s political risk

Peru seeks Mexican boost to Mila

Brazil urged to return to its trinity

EEMEA news

Latvia’s Vilks defends euro decision

Al-Waleed row flares market manipulation debate

Bankers in Istanbul reel at $620 million fine

Nigerian banks battle for pan-African dominance

Comment

Liability gridlock could scupper German piggyback scheme

HK awaits return of normal IPOs

Brazil: Time for a religious revival

What Jamie Dimon doesn’t see

Why Nabiullina became Russia's central bank governor

The fatal flaw in the Philippines’ investment-grade bid

Securitization: back to the future

Columns

Cyprus tests the limits of currency union

Abigail with attitude: UBS's Orcel escapes financial repression

Abigail with attitude: Berenberg Bank – a lesson in the art of private partnership

Abigail with attitude: Point/counterpoint, Ondra success

Abigail with attitude: Financiers stray into sexual politics

Abigail with attitude: In memoriam: Padraic Fallon

UBS stumbles towards a solution

Diary of a human shield

Against the tide: Credits and debits

Inside investment: Chairman Ben and Neverland

Front End

Conflicted?

Getting a high return

Hoops boss sidesteps Reds peril

Too bad to fail

Quotes of the month

Off the record