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Sukuk Outlook 2015
Hit by the double curse of falling oil p­­rices and rising interest rates, global issuance of sukuk— shariah-compliant Islamic bonds—slowed sharply in the final quarter of 2014.

India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government, led by prime minister Narendra Modi, seems set to give a new lease on life to insurance sector reforms.

A major blot on the country’s wholesome image is the questionable behaviour and ethics of some of its mining and energy companies both at home and overseas

George Osborne, Chancellor of the exchequer in the United Kingdom unveils the outline of a “Google tax”.

Last year ended with a data breach of the US retailer Target, this year "The Sony Hack".  What will 2015 hold for cyberattacks and cybersecurity?

The big bank is the only systemically important US financial institution found to depend too heavily on wholesale sources of funding.

Which banks are best-capitalized? The answer is not that easy, if Basel III risk-based capital ratios are the only thing looked at. It depends a lot on what is observed.

To most people the idea of infrastructure investment denotes visions of water systems, highways and bridges, and basic general services usually relegated to municipal authorities. Recently, however, at the Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships Conference in Toronto, a new model for infrastructure was discussed – that of the “intelligent city.”

Cash is still king, and unlocking trapped cash or investing it for higher yield remains one of the major preoccupations of most corporate treasurers.

AFP EXCLUSIVE
Companies across the world continue to hoard cash though their reasons for doing so are gradually changing as market confidence grows and counterparty risk slowly falls from its financial crisis peak.

AFP Exclusive | Q&A
An interview with Paul Bramwell, SVP of treasury solutions, SunGard.

AFP Exclusive | Q&A
Global Finance sits down with Diane Reyes, Global Head of Payments and Cash Management, HSBC

Book Review
Sengupta’s Recasting India envisions India’s real growth drivers as the millions of small entrepreneurs in the country and the "extraordinary enterprise of ordinary people.”

AFP Exclusive | Q&A
An interview with Dan Scanlan, regional transaction banking head for the Americas, Standard Chartered.

Emerging Markets
Corporate bond markets denominated in domestic currencies are developing rapidly in many emerging markets, enabling local companies to issue debt without having to worry about repaying it in revalued dollars.

EXCLUSIVE
As China’s top political leaders gathered this week in Beijing for their annual conclave amid expectations for a new reform push, a joint study by two U.S. think tanks said that the world’s second-largest economy is undergoing a massive overhaul of its obsolete growth model.

In what is considered a first step for even bigger foreign direct investment to Sri Lanka, TPG Capital announced in August it would invest $113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombo.

Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has just announced seven new infrastructure projects, worth $1.1 billion, as part of master plan to accelerate and expand Indonesia's economic development.

Some discrepancy exists between the rules that are written and those that are enforced. This is true for most places in the world, and China is no exception.

This month the European Central Bank will start to buy euro-denominated asset-backed securities (ABS) and covered bonds in an effort to revive a market that has been sharply impaired since the financial crisis.