May 2013

Main

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

Emerging Europe

Sberbank: Gref’s great expectations

Single minded: emerging Europe and the euro

Best managed companies in CEE 2013: An answer for Turkcell

Turkey: Just what is Basci up to?

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

Latin America

Brazil’s rebound remains uncertain

Brazil: Shady practices won’t mitigate the heat of inflation

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

Asia news

China: ‘I’ has trouble with teams in HK

Equity capital markets: Bangkok SkyTrain might get Thai IPOs back on track

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

Comment

Barclays needs to come clean about its Gulf investments

An unhealthy market share concentration in FX

Sovereign bonds: Do markets need a risk-free rate?

Cyprus: a characteristically Russian problem

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

Front End

Financial crisis: don’t blame it on the Charlie

Citi's super Lasko

Fred the Shred’s mystery tour

South Sudan: The euro’s next member state?

Dromeus Greek Advantage Fund: It’s all Greek to us

Quotes of the month

Off the record