Keith Meekins’ appointment as a regional CEO highlights the Japanese institution’s global ambitions.

Ferran to drive Middle East business from DIFC HQ.
 

Bada to focus on emerging market transactions. 

Fadel takes mortgage and asset-backed securities hotseat.
 

Former BNP Paribas trader Avot joins London team.

Sharif Anbar-Colas to head up investment bank's London-based operation.

James Fenner has been named as the new head of capital markets for GE Capital in EMEA. Based in London, he will be responsible for all strategic lease and loan syndication activities and will oversee securitisation and alternative funding strategies. 

EMEA holds nerve in decade of shocks

Our pick of the year's most impressive structured and securitised issuances.

Round-up of our Africa winners in this year's Project Finance Awards.

As well as having much of the risk drained out of it, the securitisation market is also growing again. Up to the end of May 2015, the volume of securitisation in EMEA was up 68% at US$24.7bn, the most active first quarter since 2007 when it hit US$150bn.

Being a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has become a badge of honour for many pension funds and asset managers.