This week we welcome Karim Helal, to tell all about Egypt's new Investment Fund: Papyrus.

InvestAfrica’s COO, Raya Hubbell, joins me on the occasion of the opening of their Dubai Chapter to look at how best to access Africa.

Not one, but two guests on the podcast this week! Richard interviews Chris Innes-Hopkins of the Saudi-British Joint Business Council, and Angus Blair drops by for a quick talk about Egypt.

Richard is joined by John Sfakianakis of MASIC to discuss everything Saudi Arabia, previewing our two conferences in May. For more information visit www.euromoneyconfeerences.com

We're joined by Alper Ince from PAAMCO in California to discuss the economic and financial meaning of the recent elections in Turkey. Is the worst over for this vital emerging market? Find out by listening…

Chris Ostrowski, Euromoney’s man in places nobody has heard of, joins us for a trans-Siberian tour and discussion on the meaning of Crimea for investors in Russia.

This week: Dan Alderson of IFIS and I discuss: Gulf diplomacy and the markets, Sukuk in Q1 & Q2 and the prospects for islamic capital markets in Turkey. I talk about IPOs. Dan doesn’t.

In this week’s rather breathless podcast I ran out of the Bahrain conference to talk to Mazin Manna, CEO of Citi Bahrain and Hasan Haider, CEO of Tenmou. The contrast between a global giant and a local angel investing minnow highlights the wonderful diversity which exists in the financial world. To outsiders its monolithic and homogenous – to those inside the business it is anything but. Both my guests are young, dynamic and good speakers. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I did talking to them.