While most of Europe ground to a halt, Poland had years of consistently speedy economic expansion. As growth slows, Rod James analyses what Polish banks can do to get things moving again.

Investors are being offered more frequent opportunities to back bonds in roubles, lira, naira and other emerging-market currencies. But building these markets takes time and effort from many parties. Tim Burke reports.

As we publish our anniversary edition of the magazine, three regional bankers tell of their own experiences during the past five years.

The winning banks, asset managers and brokers in this year's awards.

International investors can finally buy local Russian bonds as easily as they’d wish. That development could offer exciting opportunities for all parties, writes Rod James.

The IMF’s new training centre for finance officials in sub-Saharan Africa is about to open in Port Louis. The fund’s Sharmini Coorey talks to Tim Burke about what she hopes it will achieve.

Hungary battles on; privatisations lift Poland; EPH closes a mega Slovakquisition.

Riad Salameh, governor of Lebanon’s central bank, discusses the strengths of the country’s banking sector and the stimulus packages he hopes will promote economic stability in 2013.

International investors already like what they see in Croatia. But the economy will need to demonstrate a further show of strength ahead of the country’s planned European Union accession in 2013.

IMF funding could give Belarus’s economy a much-needed break, but its government must earn it.

Ethiopia has potential and problems. Its government would prefer markets to focus only on the former. Tim Burke reports.

Lebanon’s top banks are in fine health. That’s good news – their government needs them. Tim Burke reports.