General Emerging Markets

Anti-Money Laundering’s Poor Country Soak

With Turkey’s G-20 summit due to review the financial regulatory agenda, including unchanged remittance costs despite the 5 percent medium-term ...

The TPP’s Financial Services Finagle

The agreed TPP text was released in November with an 80-page financial services chapter with standard provisions for national treatment, ...

Corporate Debt’s Spin Cycle Splotch

As corporate bonds entered the last quarter with big CEMBI components Brazil and Russia demoted to high-yield and issuance off ...

Doing Business’ Dozen Year Dichotomy

Low-income economies rose more in regulatory efficiency and quality rankings than advanced ones over the 12 years since the World ...

Corporate Leverage’s Hectic Hoist

The IMF’s October Global Financial Stability Report probed the massive run-up in EM corporate debt ahead of the annual meetings ...

The BIS’ Private Debt Buildup Letdown

The BIS repeated alarms over the accumulation of EM private and household debt since the 2008 crisis, as major investment ...

Corporate Defaults’ Devilish Plot

The mid-year high-yield CEMBI corporate default rate at 2.5 percent was on track for 2015’s 5 percent projection, with 20 ...

The Next President’s Development Blueprint Blues

The Center for Global Development released a lengthy briefing book of proposals after a year-long effort to shape the agenda ...

The BRICS Bank Utilitarian Undertaking

The New Development Bank with $50 billion in initial BRICS capital held its first organizational meeting in Uta, Russia with ...

Local Corporate Bonds’ Universe Discovery

Local corporate bonds, 90 percent concentrated in Asia at Chinese policy banks in particular, have almost matched the growth in ...

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