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Ross Jackson: A Silver Lining to Europe’s Troubles
As we await the outcome of the four-month extension of the Greek credit arrangement with the Troika (EU, IMF, ECB), this is a good time to consider various possible scenarios. Indeed, I would like to outline the one scenario that
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Grant Thornton: Governance vs Corporate Governance
When we hear the term “corporate governance”, we instantaneously parallel the phrase with rules and procedures, stock market regulations, codes, standards, compliance, etc. Corporate governance is perceived by many publically-listed companies as a burden that limits their freedom because of
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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: Stock Exchanges, European Capital Markets, and Sustainability
Sustainability is already part of the global market ecosystem. Exchanges and regulators have embraced it, researchers and academics have validated it, and the law in many places already requires it. Even if the perspective remains limited to the US Supreme
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Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: BRICS Apart as Oil Prices Plunge
The oil price plunge since last June has been deemed, overall, as a boon for the global economy. However, that depends on where one stands as a producer or user, as illustrated here with the divergence of impacts on BRICS
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Proposed China Pakistan Economic Corridor: With a Price Tag of $46 billion
China’s president Xi Jinping arrived in Islamabad on Monday 20 April for talks with Pakistani president Nawaz Sharif, to address parliament and make clear to the world a very obvious power shift from West to East. Xi Jinping has agreed
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The Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange: Opening to Foreign Investors in June
As of June 15th this year, the largest stock market in the Middle East– Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul – will be open to foreign investors for the first time. The Saudi exchange, which is worth well over $500 billion, is dominated
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Mario Draghi: Bond Buying a Success but Deflation Threat Remains
According to European Central Bank (ECB) president, Mario Draghi (speaking at a news conference on Wednesday 15th April) the Euros 1.1 trillion bond buying plan executed by the Bank has been effective. He commented that the buying of bonds had
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Africa: End of the Commodity Super-Cycle Weighs on Growth
Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth will slow in 2015 to 4.0 percent from 4.5 percent in 2014, according to World Bank projections released today. This downturn largely reflects the fall in the prices of oil and other commodities, notes Africa’s Pulse, a twice-yearly
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Annual Investment Meeting (AIM), Ministry of Economy, United Arab Emirates, 2015
AIM 2015, which was held from 30 March – 1 April at the Dubai international Convention and Exhibition Center, focused on ‘Sustainable Development through FDI Induced Innovation and Technology Transfer’. This was an important gathering of some of the world’s
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World Bank Group Increased Support for Reforms to Accelerate Economic Growth
Annette Dixon, new Vice President of World Bank Group’s South Asia Region made an introductory visit to Pakistan from April 1 to 4, 2015. She called upon Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and met with the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and
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