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Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief
James R Hammond (Boston) publisher
Robert Anderson (Prague) managing editor
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
Nicholas Watson (Prague) contributing editor
Liam Halligan (London)
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Eastern Europe
Nicholas Allen (Berlin) bureau chief
Mark Galeotti (Prague) contributing editor
Central Europe
Tim Gosling (Prague) bureau chief
Central Asia
Will Conroy bureau chief
Advertising & subscription
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 SEE banking markets are ripe for consolidation
13 South African investors drawn to CE real estate magnet
15 The new wave of Romanian IT start-ups
17 EU’s eastern half slow to join wind and solar revolution
20 English farmer ploughs a deep furrow in Russia’s biggest irrigation project
22 Global Blockchain Business Council sets up branch office in Washington
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Iran bares its steel teeth
Kazakh banks play pass the parcel with unexploded bad loan bomb
The trillion dollar bill of US protectionism
SPECIAL REPORT – CEE/CIS Trade Finance
Grappling with the “new normal” of sanctions and compliance
Trade finance guarantees vital in emerging markets
COVER FEATURE
Buy Russia
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Design
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COMPANIES MENTIONED
Abanka (Page 11)
Accelerate Property Fund (14) ADM Capital (20)
Aeroflot (43)
AIK Banka (12)
Allen & Overy (11)
Alpha Bank (11, 12)
Alrosa (45)
Apollo (12)
Ararat Bank (31)
Asaka Bank (31)
Baker & McKenzie (31) Bank of Georgia (31) Belagroprombank (31) The Bitfury Group (22, 23) Black Sea Trade Development Bank (31)
BRD (31, 39)
EBRD (12, 32, 37, 40)
Echo Prime Properties (13) Eskhata Bank (31)
Euler Hermes (31) Eurobank (11, 12)
Fitbit (17)
Greenbay Properties (14)
Halyk Bank (25, 26)
Hyprop Investments REIT (14)
JC Flowers (12)
KBC (12)
Khan Bank (31)
KKB (25, 26, 31) Komercijalna Banka (11, 31) Komercni Banka (31, 32, 38)
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+42 0603517867 randerson@bne.eu
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+44 7801799279
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Michael Dragoyevich (London) +44 7715412938
Carpatica banka (12
CEZ (18, 46 47)
Citigroup (31, 36)
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (11) Colliers International (13, 14) Comerciala Carpatica Banca(10) Commerzbank (30, 31 32) Covington (22)
Credit China Fintech Holdings (23)
Cushman & Wakefield (13, 14)
Danieli Group (24)
Demir Kyrgyz International Bank (31)
Dentons (14, 31)
DLA Piper (14)