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Vietnamese banking reforms draw criticism
Reforms meet mixed reception as concerns surround credit availability for small businesses
While responses to the announced reform have been largely positive, a number of economic sources have identified specific areas in which the change may put pressure on customers and consumers amid the sectors that are likely to gain some benefit from the ...
The new cost of market development
Executives should anticipate to invest more in their talent base in support of their growth strategies in emerging markets
A recent PwC global survey shows that many CEO’s target their new growth to come from new market development in emerging markets. Global-Arena.com – a platform where companies and investors find business locations that meet their needs for growth, t...
Lamido Sanusi fights Nigerian corruption
Waging wars against oil subsidies to the middle classes, Nigeria’s central banker, Dr Lamido Sanusi, is not short of adversaries
Most central bankers live behind closed doors, spending much of the day poring over pages of data before emerging to make the occasional speech about the economic outlook. But that’s not how Dr Lamido Sanusi, the governor of Nigeria’s central bank,...
Lamido Sanusi fights Nigerian corruption
Waging wars against oil subsidies to the middle classes, Nigeria’s central banker, Dr Lamido Sanusi, is not short of adversaries
European banks take €530bn of ECB’s three-year fund
Europe’s banks have relied on the ECB yet again. But will funds be distributed fairly?
Was the Reserve Bank of India’s policy review a non-event?
As the RBI defends its monetary policy as ‘stable’, commentators and investors have been disappointed with recent indecision
The new cost of market development
Executives should anticipate to invest more in their talent base in support of their growth strategies in emerging markets
Grad schemes still available in banks
As investment houses recover from the recession, banks have started to promote more graduate schemes
CorpBanca: Banking is Chile’s most reliable growth sector
Chile’s banking sector has been the country’s most reliable growth area. It has weathered the financial storm brewing oversees and surpassed global standards with an updated regulatory system. CorpBanca welcomes the legal changes and continues to play a major part in the country’s progress
HSBC to reconsider Middle East portfolio
Bank undergoes “efficiency programme” in order to move in line with a more progressive directive
Boubyan Bank in 2012 three-pillar strategy
With a determined focus on strategic trends and recruiting the best, Boubyan Bank is well placed to increase its financial position in 2012
Resillience found in merged banks
Banks such as Poland’s BZ-WBK have shown that by utilising the best aspects of smaller institutions it can form a solid, long term outfit
Top 10
Zimbabwe
234.1% of GDP, pariah of debt markets, but with hopes for a healthy twelve months ahead
Japan
197.5%, hard-hit by the tsunami, and reeling from the internal corruption allegations
Greece
142.8%, possibly heading for default, and considered one of many eurozone bad boys
Lebanon
133.8%, deceptively, has a strong banking sector, but little more in an ailing economy
Iceland
126%, hopelessly indebted banks and very little light at the end of a long and gloomy tunnel
Italy
119% of GDP, in need of reform, paying over 7% for its debt thanks to technocratic leadership
Singapore
106%, to many an idyllic investment destination, a great borrower, repayer, and long term option
Belgium
101%, no government for most of 2011 didn’t help a weak economy in dire need of stimulus
Egypt
90%, high but it’s recovering from a long and protracted revolution and aiming high
European Union
82%, stronger countries like Germany are contaminated by the weakest. It could go on…
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