Africa

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Prakash Deenapanray,  Director, ELIA – Ecological Living In Action Ltd., Mauritius – March 23, 2012

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Prakash Deenapanray, Director, ELIA – Ecological Living In Action Ltd., Mauritius – March 23, 2012

Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.”  The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience.  The goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: To collect a catalogue of examples of SRI in practice in emerging [...]

BRICS Exchanges to Cross-list Benchmark Equity Index Derivatives beginning March 30, 2012

On March 30, 2012 BM&FBOVESPA (Brazil), Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited – HKEx (China), Bombay Stock Exchange (India), MICEX-RTS (Russia) and Johannesburg Stock Exchange (South Africa) will begin to cross-list their benchmark equity index derivatives.  This next step in the integration of the BRICS markets (the BRICSmart project) was announced on March 13, 2012 [...]