General Emerging Markets

Doing Business’ Quality Control Quarrel

The World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business edition has reacted to methodology criticism from an independent expert panel by adding regulatory ...

Local Bonds’ Decade-Long Detour

JP Morgan’s 10th local bond market guide profiling currencies and fixed-income in dozens of countries traced continued evolution but acknowledged  “mounting ...

Green Finance’s Postponed Pollination

As world leaders gathered at the UN General Assembly to debate potential climate change agreement renewal before next year’s Paris ...

Rating Downgrades’ Descent Defiance

Emerging market corporate and sovereign ratings will stay at the BBB investment grade average despite recent downgrade tendencies as the ...

The BIS’ Unnatural Herd Instincts

The BIS’ September quarterly publication raised the asset warning stakes with a new study showing strong price and investor flow ...

Corporate Bonds’ Anxious Mood Altering

As global fixed-income houses note another record annual pace of external corporate issuance at $250 billion through July, against the ...

The East Caribbean’s Spent Spearfishing

St. Kitts and Nevis exited its IMF program after commercial debt restructuring as another Eastern Caribbean Currency Union member Grenada ...

Global Sukuks’ Feisty Feast Period

First half sukuk issuance mainly from Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey was up over 8 percent to $65 ...

Frontier Sovereigns’ Rookie Issue Mistakes

An IMF working paper looking at $15 billion in debut external frontier country bonds mainly from Africa the past decade ...

The BIS’ Boom Cycle Backpedaling

The Bank for International Settlements’ annual report dedicated a chapter to  post-crisis disconnect in business and financial cycles, with emerging ...

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