January 2014

Main

Top stories

The hunt for Mukhtar Ablyazov: Banker, criminal, fugitive, victim?

Emerging Europe

Andrey Kostin: The face of Russian capitalism

Russian banking: Stalemate on investment banks’ eastern front

CEE M&A: Mind the valuation gap

Investors romance Romania

Davos 2014

Beware the equity cliff

Equities: Reading the cycle warnings

The stock market impact of China’s reforms

European stocks: Waiting for the show-me rally

Corporates

In the spotlight: Financing European SMEs

Banks struggle to find the SME factor

Country risk

ECR: In search of the next investment-grade sovereign

Asia Pacific

Best managed companies in Asia 2014: Tencent shows its worth

Best managed companies in Asia 2014: Results index

Latin America

Land rush on Brazil’s frontier

Middle East

Kuwait’s Gulf Bank: What next for a bank brought back from the brink?

Banking news

Corporate financing: optimism abounds for 2014

NPL disparities spell trouble for Spanish lenders

Regulation: Bowles targets unfinished business

Private banking not so easy in Asia

Markets news

Bank capital: Real money gets a taste for European CoCos

For sovereign rating analysts, hell hath no fury like an EU official scorned

Domestic monoline wraps SME risk in Finland

Asia news

Asian capital markets: Debt enjoys record year as equity rebounds

Renminbi offers bright spot amid global trade finance slump

Latin America news

Capital flows: Brazil’s investors add outbound capital dynamic

Profits feel the squeeze at Bolivia’s banks

Brazil tries to shrug off a poor run in equities

EEMEA news

M&A: Rabobank sale revives French drive in CEE

Non-performing loans: Bad debts still rising in southeastern Europe, six years on

ECM: Pensions shake-up hits Polish privatization

Capital flows: Ghana rating actions show African currency risks

Comment

Not enough trade for Volcker

Credit market mops up banking’s toxic legacy

Leverage ratios: method in the madness

Asian M&A: China key to urge to merge

Mandela’s legacy – Africa’s rise

DCM: A good time for African Eurobonds

Brazil to reap bumper agribusiness harvest

Private banking: A wave of consolidation

Columns

Abigail with attitude: Christmas presents for bank CEOs

Abigail with attitude: Credit Suisse's Dougan is suffering death by a thousand cuts

Abigail with attitude: RBS resembles a rudderless rabble

Abigail with attitude: UBS' Ermotti is unmistakably Swiss; JPMorgan is trying too hard

Abigail with attitude: Sants' inauspicious departure from Barclays

Macaskill on markets: World Cup of banking

Against the tide: Don’t be beastly to Germans

Inside investment: The European wrong contest

Front End

Currency pairs: festive edition

Are banks’ fates in the cards?

Hairy Bankers

Lunching season

Off the Record

Quotes of the Month

Most recent

Primary Market Monitor

Rising and volatile Treasury yields punish CEEMEA issuers

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SSA

Raising Rates: high yields and wider spreads hit sentiment as EFSF test looms

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Supras and agencies

EFSF to lead SSA test in euros

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Senior Debt

Volatility no bar to senior issuance in FIG market

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Covered Bonds

Covered bond supply hopes to reignite

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