By BlackRock Infrastructure Debt Team In the wake of the global recession, privately-financed infrastructure has become a hot topic for…
International financial institutions have joined forces to help calm economic turbulence and avert a collapse in the provision of credit…
The case of professional services in the European Union. Explicit barriers to cross-border trade in services are rare… Since services…
Apart from the election of the first European Parliament in 1979, European elections have hardly been considered a decisive moment…
Lady Susan Rice is the first woman to head a UK clearing bank. Currently, she is managing director of Lloyds…
The severely battered Greek economy is on the mend. A rebound may even be in the works. The same hedge…
It’s the idealists you have to look out for. The more dishonourable aspects of the financial world might have been…
Early February, Canadian banker Mark Carney spoke before the House of Commons Treasury Committee about his new job. The hearing…
A Determined Leader for Challenging Times. In February 2012, Nuno Amado was elected Chief Executive Officer of Portugal’s largest private…
In a bid to attract a new category of investors and to become a leading centre of Islamic finance, the…