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4 I Contents bne July 2017
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)
editor-at-large LHalligan@newsparta.net
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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Design
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 NLB float flop tarnishes Slovenia’s reputation among investors
12 Banking convergence returns to Central and Eastern Europe, says RBI
13 FDI to Emerging Europe soars in 2016
15 Businesses move beyond early learning stage of blockchain
16 Mavi Jeans’ IPO
overcomes the Turkish blues
COVER FEATURE
18 Russia's Asian pivot starts
to pay off
20 Eurasian eyes turn east
21 Russia China Investment Fund takes aim at Russia’s best equity stories
22 China stirs up Russia’s Central Asian backyard
23 China’s insatiable appetite for Central Asian oil and gas
25 Chinese investors compete for Bosnian coal projects
27 When sleeping giants meet SPECIAL FOCUS – Poland
34 An economic test for Polish ambition
Cover illustration by Illarion Gordon.
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COMPANIES MENTIONED
Alrosa (Page 21) Bitfury 15-16
Capital Economics 35-36 CEFC 27-29
China Development Bank 26 China Exim Bank 26
China Gezhouba Group 25 China Petroleum
& Chemical 23
China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation 26
CIC 21
Citi 45
Citic 24
CMEC 26
CNPC 24 Commerzbank 35 Comsar Energy 26
Deloitte 54 Detsky Mir 21
Dongfang 25-26
EBRD 36
Elektroprivreda Bosne
and Hercegovine 25 Empresa 29
Erste Group 35
Eurasia Drilling Company 21 Exim Bank 25
Fitch Ratings 34-36
Global Source Partners 44-46
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