General Emerging Markets

Private Equity’s Uneven Resolutions

The private equity association EMPEA lamented a 2013 “downward cycle” as investment and fundraising both declined to $25 billion and ...

Africa’s Bruising BRICS Reappraisal

With economic growth and financial market performance divergence widening into 2014 between Sub-Sahara Africa and the large country BRICS grouping ...

Sovereign Debt Restructuring’s Reamed Remedies

As the IMF continues outside consultations before presenting formal sovereign debt workout proposals based on last year’s staff options paper ...

Debt Funds’ Jumbled Jingle

Retail-driven bond outflows continued into year-end at around $50 billion according to EPFR although the 2013 sum was $10 billion ...

The BIS’ Statistical Blip Blasts

The Bank for International Settlements’ Q2 data showed an unaccustomed slowdown in global credit flows to most emerging as well ...

Local Corporate Bonds’ Index Indecency

After months of launch speculation Bank of America Merrill Lunch beat rivals to initiate a local corporate bond index limited ...

Doing Business’ Tempered Regulatory Template

Despite expert panel recommendations to change it methodology and Chinese government objections in particular to the lack of macroeconomic context, ...

Bank Lending’s Lurking Doom Loop

The IIF’s Q3 scan of 135 banks’ credit climate in major emerging market regions modeled on the US Federal Reserve ...

Multinationals’ Multiple Transparency Transgressions

The openness champion Transparency International offered a second annual screening of disclosure practice at 100 top emerging market-based multinational companies ...

The IMF’s Magnified Mini-Stress Test

The IMF’s biannual Global Financial Stability Report checkup charted increased emerging market risk with the “mini stress test” since May ...

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