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  • All market participants must still confront the reality of near total market failure across the debt and money markets, an inability to sell even quality assets for cash or to borrow against them and a complete loss of faith between financial institutions. More public money is surely coming, but how can it repair this?
  • Icap has announced the expansion of its presence in the Middle East with the signing up of the Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK), based in Bahrain, as an EBS Prime customer. The broker says the deal is a further step in its expansion into the region. As well as the kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, it now has approval to provide electronic broking services in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
  • Its strength in emerging markets makes it a serious player in FX.
  • Local-currency debt markets in emerging economies are beginning to suffer from the credit crisis and broader global slowdown.
  • The Fed is finding innovative ways to fund US financial institutions to combat the systemic risk that has done for Bear Stearns.
  • A sign of the weak prospects for the European securitization business has been provided by Morgan Stanley’s aggressive cost-cutting. Ellen Brunsberg, head of the European securitized products group, is still at the firm but out of the 70-strong team, only 20 people now remain.
  • Costs are rising in Asian private banking but the vast and untapped pools of wealth in the region mean that it is still a highly attractive business proposition. The adverse market environment will further reduce margins. However, on a long-term basis the opportunities are too good to miss. Helen Avery reports.
  • Credit Suisse and Gulf Capital, one of the region’s biggest private equity firms, have announced an agreement in principle to launch a strategic alliance focused on investing in the Gulf and Middle Eastern economies. Karim El Solh, chief executive at Gulf Capital, says: "Of particular help to us will be Credit Suisse’s expertise in leveraged buyouts, its global footprint, its financial strength and award-winning debt and equity franchises in the Middle East."
  • Lost a billion dollars in the US structured finance market? No problem: Daddy just received a huge bonus from the global economy and will give you $1 billion to cover the damage.
  • Dimitri Psyllidis, co-head of EMEA FICC at Merrill Lynch has left the firm. David Gu was announced as sole head of EMEA FICC.
  • Euromoney looks in depth at the global property and casualty insurers that our poll respondents vote as the best in the business. Overall winner AIG sees worrying signs of poor capital management in the industry, while second-ranked Zurich shows its flair for innovation and China’s Ping An has sizeable ambitions of its own.
  • Rating agency considers wider implications of CDO methodology change.