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