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September 2013

Main

Top stories

The great bond liquidity drought...and how to fix it

Willing liquidity back into the markets

Liquidity: Fixing the present system

Emerging markets

China sows seeds for next global downturn

Japan

Shinzo Abe faces up to his toughest battle

Brains behind Abenomics urges PM to show his brawn

Finance Minister of the Year

Finance Minister of the Year 2013: Singapore’s dynamo presses reform

Central bank governor of the year

Central Bank Governor of the Year 2013: Leading the bank by the book

World Bank/IMF

Jin-Yong Cai: An activist at the IFC

North America

US municipal finances: How to win the war on worklessness

Standing up to Too Big to Fail

US housing

Can the US housing finance market be re-privatized?

US housing finance: The imminent pain of eminent domain

Real estate

Commercial real estate: Institutions get a taste for real estate

Mortgage finance: The revival of European CMBS – but not as we knew it

Real estate awards 2013: Blackstone leads the winners

Asia Pacific

The Asean alternative emerges

Middle East

Ins and outs of Saudi banking: infighting yet outstanding

Sovereign wealth funds: In the shadows of the shadows

Middle East: M&A shakes up regional banking

Lebanon

Lebanon’s Salamé stresses resilience and stability

China

Big-game hunting for China’s POEs

Bank shortcomings exposed as Chinese economy founders

Indonesia

Second-tier cities rise up in Indonesia

Emerging Europe

Russian banks play truth or dare

Picking winners: Recovering CEE banks get tough

Africa

Africa: Fast finance for the new frontier of food

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Nigeria’s crusader-in-chief fights for the country’s soul

Czech Republic

Miroslav Singer: Gunning for intervention

Latin America

Mexico’s economy comes of age

CRT breaks ground for Brazil infrastructure

Venezuela’s oil is as much bane as boon

Andean banks go regional

Turkey

Market turmoil tests the mettle of Turkey’s banks

Middle East debate

Middle East debate: Gulf dynamism drives regional transaction banking

Banking news

Mergers & acquisitions: Banks must sell equity or businesses

Bank capital: Additional tier 1 takes off at Société Générale

Mergers & acquisitions: US banks return to M&A trail

European banking: Investors doubt banking union plan

Greek banks lead fall in European bank-stability risk – HEC Lausanne study

Markets news

Fed warned on tapering policy as emerging market rout deepens

Commodities: Lawmakers take aim at aluminium assets

Industry poised for FX margin decision

Corporate finance: Novo fund launched to target French SMEs

EC’s money-market reforms to trigger seismic shift

Asia news

Hong Kong: ParknShop sale worries Li Ka-shing watchers

China: Government bond futures return after 18 years

Foreign direct investment: Indonesia set to change course on FDI

India continues battle on rupee volatility

Latin America news

Brazil markets will instigate policy change – BlackRock

Mexico’s proposed energy reforms enthuse bankers

Brazil: BNDES strategy confusion

EEMEA news

Kazakhstan: BTA in recovery mode after Ablyazov arrest

Hungary: Orban takes a swipe at OTP

Africa: Islamic finance looks south of the Sahara

Turkey: Syria and Basci extend lira’s free fall

Retail banking: Rand heightens unsecured risks

Comment

Bond markets: It’s time for open order books

Emerging markets: New frontier hands Brics a blow

Corporate bonds: Timing was everything for Verizon bond take-out

Japan: The ifs and buts of Abenomics

Bank hiring practices: US regulators turn spotlight on Hong Kong

Brazil's economic growth: A test of credibility

De-institutionalizing credit ratings?

Glass-Steagall: Repeal the repeal?

Columns

Macaskill on markets: Charlie Brown banks are losing leverage

Sideways: Where time is not money

Abigail with attitude: Phone charger – Verizon flexes its muscles

Abigail with attitude: Equity markets – beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

Abigail with attitude: Moritz Erhardt – someone must be held accountable

Abigail with attitude: Halo Dimon, goodbye veneer

Abigail with attitude: The lost art of banking

Inside investment: Equity markets – This glass is still half full

Against the tide: Too soon to talk of eurozone recovery

Front End

When bankers bail

Little cheer in UniCredit’s BEER

Hedgie’s wrestling tip: hold

Burning Man: Naked dusty networking

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