Asia Pacific: China – Beijing Leaves Washington in the Dust with...
Washington missed the boat on the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Both the United States and Japan declined to join the new multilateral...
Grant Thornton UAE: Islamic Finance Oil Prices Impact
Modern banks started offering Islamic finance in the mid-1970s. At the time, there were major developments in the Muslim world such as the oil...
Corporate Punishment
The UK government has pledged to crack down on ‘bad’ boardroom behaviour. But how far can it go? And will the corporate world fall...
EIB Investment Plan for Europe: Revolution in Use of Public Resources
The Marshall Plan did much to inject life into the post-war recovery of Europe. Initially comprising $13 billion, mostly in direct aid, the plan...
Frontier Markets: Mongolia’s Great Leap Forward
An eleventh-hour deal to plough $4.4 billion into a gargantuan mine in Mongolia may have dragged the country’s hand away from the self-destruct button...
