SME funding in Turkey; foreign banks in Russia; trade finance in Georgia; and more.

Standout listings and fund raisings from the CEEMEA region, including our depositary receipt awards.

Coverage of this year's winning deals and the firms and financiers behind them.

Arminta Saladžienė, chair of the exchange, talks to Tim Burke about market developments.

The real estate company's CFO is keeping a careful eye on cash, writes Tim Burke.

What a new era of price volatility means for oil and gas companies in the capital markets. By Tim Burke.

The European Commission wants to redraw the map for the union’s finance markets. Some parties in Central and Eastern Europe are worried they’re being left out. Tim Burke reports.

Georgia has launched pension reforms, and is looking to develop a local currency debt market, all in an effort to develop the country's capital markets, EMEA Finance reports on the progress of these efforts.

New report sees hope for tiny private equity market in the MENA region.

Like so many hyped events, the first day of liberalised trading on the Tadawul, Saudi Arabia’s Stock Exchange, was a little bit underwhelming. Many commentators expected foreign investors to be queuing up at the door, waiting for entry into a room full of blue chip shares from previously inaccessible multi-billion-dollar market-cap companies.

Egypt’s domestic capital markets have been experiencing something of a resurgence, particularly its stock exchange. Listings started to pick up last year when in May Arabian Cement Company (ACC) tested the market with a US$109mn IPO.

On June 5 Norway’s parliament approved a proposal that will see its gargantuan US$900bn Government Pension Fund Global divest stakes in mining companies that derive more than 30% of their revenues from coal and power companies that are more than 30% reliant on coal for generation.