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Hellenic Bank is the second largest commercial bank in Cyprus, with market shares of 13% and 7% in deposits and loans respectively. Recapitalised following the crisis, it is now introducing innovative measures to restructure its loan portfolio, rebuild its loan portfolio and enhance operating efficiencies. In this interview with GlobalMarkets, Hellenic Bank’s chairwoman, Irena Georgiadou, outlines the progress that the bank has made since its re-capitalisation and looks forward to the opportunities that are being generated by the economic recovery in Cyprus. Click the link to the right to find out more.

Turkey’s Garanti Bank this week signed a $1.35bn loan from 38 banks, in what could be one of the last financial institution deals to come from the region in the spring funding round.

The Co-operative Central Bank (CCB) of Cyprus was originally founded in 1937 as the central governing body of Cyprus’s 18 affiliated Co-operative Credit Institutions (CCIs), giving the bank unrivalled access to retail customers on the island. Click the link to the right to find out more.

Bank of Cyprus is comfortably the largest lender in Cyprus, with market shares of 39.7% in loans and 30.8% in deposits as of January 2017. It is also the only Cypriot bank listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), making it a natural proxy for the economy. In this interview, Bank of Cyprus’s CEO, John Hourican, shares his views with GlobalMarkets on the recent performance of the bank and on the outlook for the Cypriot financial services industry and economy. Click the link to right to find out more.

Georgia’s diligent work in the past on developing its economy has not been in vain. The real economy has grown at about 5% on average annually since the global financial crisis; that in a period characterised by a major slowdown in growth rates throughout the world. IMF’s longer-term forecasts of Georgia’s future real output growth also stand at about 5%, one of the highest in the region. Click the link to the right to find out more.

Net income was up 10.5% in 2016, with equity prof-itability reaching 12.6%. Which factors played defining roles in this strong performance? Was Halkbank able to report similar figures at the start of 2017? Click the link to the right to find out more.

The French election came and went on Sunday offering up no surprises, leaving the corporate bond market wide open for new issuance this week.

Freddie Mac is considering changing the structure of its structured agency credit risk (STACR) transactions, to open up the market to much bigger participation from real estate investment trust (REIT) investors.

Hotspot, a CBOE company, has conducted the first outright deliverable forward FX deal over its network and is also about to allow non-deliverable forwards for listing on its swap execution facility.

Equity block trading began smartly on Monday evening after Emmanuel Macron generated relief across markets by winning the French presidency on Sunday. Goldman Sachs brought two trades for its own private equity arm.

In a Q&A with GlobalMarkets, Jiang Jianqing, head of the Sino-CEEF Holding Company and chairman of ICBC, sets out the institution’s aims, its likely investors, and its potential relationship with the EBRD.

Swiss-French building company LafargeHolcim is marketing its first bond since it was engulfed in a scandal over its operations in Syria, which has already seen the company’s CEO step down in the last month.