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Banks cannot hide from Volcker

January 21, 2011

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), a body of regulators chaired by the US Treasury secretary, issued a series of recommendations in January on how to implement the Volcker Rule and its ban on proprietary trading.

Could a Middle Eastern ‘tiger’ finally start to roar?

January 11, 2011

The surge in Middle Eastern merger and acquisitions (M&A) is evidence of a shift from the oil and gas sector to the development of more complex and interesting industries. Is it set to put the region on a new path?

From left: Peter Baillargeon, John Ngumi and Florian von Hartig

Making full use of a renewed investor interest in African markets

January 6, 2011

New-found political stability is setting the stage for global investor interest in many African countries, and Standard Bank's debt capital markets team is leading the way. Writer Edward Russell-Walling

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Bank 2.0: giving customers what they want

January 6, 2011

In future decades, banks will have to let go of their fixation with traditional means of interacting with the customer and instead offer solutions that meet the public's growing expectation of accessing banking services wherever and whenever they need them.

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Asia must not follow the consumption-based growth model of the West

December 23, 2010

Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, argues that Asia should instead be brave in imposing limits on the exploitation of resources.

Arnab Das

Do not generalise about emerging markets

December 23, 2010

Arnab Das says that while big bets are being placed on emerging markets, it is necessary to get these developing giants in perspective and avoid generalising about very different economies.

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Stanley Fink: no more excuses in funding renewable energy

December 23, 2010

A workable way of financing renewable energy must be found before it is too late - and there are no more excuses, regardless of the state of the world's economy.

Alessandro Profumo

Alessandro Profumo: understand the turmoil to exploit new opportunities

December 23, 2010

The global banking system has been shaken to its core and only by understanding what lay behind the crisis can banks hope to take advantage of emerging opportunities.

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Ireland’s Nama makes careful progress

December 23, 2010

Brendan Mcdonagh, who heads the agency set up to help recapitalise Ireland's troubled banks, admits its task is not easy, but says it is making progress.

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Klaus Regling on EFSF's role in protecting the eurozone

December 23, 2010

In the face of the EU debt crisis, the European Financial Stability Facility is one of a raft of reforms aimed at safeguarding the future of the eurozone.

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