Top stories
Revealed: The truth about Barclays and the Abu Dhabi investment
Barclays needs to come clean about its Gulf investments
How David Mellor fought Staveley for his slice of the Barclays pie
CIC, Thaksin and BlackRock: how PCP tried to pull other investors into Mansour’s part of the Barclays deal
SMEs
SMEs: Germany’s fourth pillar?
SMEs: Entrepreneurs tackle mezzanine drought head-on
Commerzbank unlocks covered bond market for SMEs
Alternative lenders embrace SMEs as banks retreat
Small firms plagued by debt void
UK's retail bond market still out of reach for many SMEs
Foreign Exchange
FX survey results revealed
Foreign exchange: Leading banks back new spot FX platform ParFX
FX survey 2013: Deutsche clings on despite Citi’s resurgence
FX survey 2013: FX market share not as fixed as it first appears
FX survey 2013: Regulation might curb FX options
Euromoney FX survey 2013 results revealed
New FX technology resolves phantom liquidity
Africa
Banking for beginners in South Sudan
South Sudan: Government tries to break its dependency on oil
South Sudan: International banks bring help, but it’s not always appreciated
Baraka: ‘We are reforming Morocco’s finances’
Africa: Post-election peace brings new hopes to Kenya
Nigerian banks: Nigeria’s big five stake their claims
Sub-Saharan Africa survey 2013: Results index
Banking news
Foreign exchange: Leading banks back new spot FX platform ParFX
Sovereign restructuring: Cyprus bail-in signals new eurozone order
Mergers & acquisitions: FIG M&A volumes slide, but hope springs eternal
US investment banks: Uncertainty around investment bank earnings
Markets news
Investment banking: US equities drive boom in Q1 IB revenues
Leveraged loans: European loan market in late funding frenzy
Will 2013 be the year of foreign exchange?
Financial transaction tax: IIF and Icma blast EU’s Tobin tax
Latin America news
Latin America debt: Peruvian issuers test buy-side capacity
Argentina’s domestic bonds offer little choice
Latin America: Brazil IPOs slowly building momentum
Brazil: Cool reception for public-private alliance
EEMEA news
Middle East: Listing scheme heralds shift at Qatar Holding
A Kazakh horror show nears its ending
Debt capital markets: Turkish corporates delight in Eurobond access
Africa: Post-election peace brings new hopes to Kenya
Columns
Abigail with attitude: The hypocrisy of Jenkins revisited
Little gained from berating the raters
Macaskill on markets: Stockholm syndrome at S&P
Against the tide: Cyprus – They think it’s all over
Inside investment: Central banks, credit bubbles – where it stops, nobody knows