As MENA stock markets open up, foreign investors get ready to roll the dice. Rod James reports.

Investment bankers discuss the dealmaking trends they expect to dominate the coming year.

We bring you our choices for the best-performing financial-services players across the region.

Farid Akhundov, CEO of Azerbaijan’s Pasha Bank, on new business opportunities.

Turkish issuers defied expectations to keep the bond market busy during 2014, writes Tim Burke.

Slovenia sells its story well – even when a banking crisis is a central plot point. Tim Burke reports.

Measures to boost the non-oil sector have seen Angola’s banks take the lead, writes Rod James.

Questions remain over the running of Angola's sovereign fund, Rod James reports.

New bond contract terms could help to prevent a repeat of Argentina’s debt restructuring debacle.

New appointments at BCS Prime Brokerage, Societe Generale, Paul Hastings and more.

Reports on corporate Ukraine and a groundbreaking energy project in Turkey.

Islamic banking; GEMS Education’s new investors; regional risk management; plus more.