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Bi-annual Country risk survey monitoring political and economic stability of 186 countries
March 2010
There is no easy way out of the overleveraged situation many governments have got into. A sovereign debt crisis looms, and not just for the most profligate.
Dar Al Arkan’s sukuk could have hardly come at a better time for Saudi Arabia.
Rising government yields hurt bank funding; Slowing issuance might crowd out lower-rated corporate borrowers
September 2009
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June 2009
It’s a story of incompetence, of hillbillyism and delusions of grandeur. It’s a story of babes in the woods and narrow-minded country bumpkins. And at the tail-end it’s a story of disastrous management and alleged serious criminality
Gunnar Andersen, the new director general of Iceland’s financial regulator, the FME