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Currenex’s sale may force a re-rating of FX platforms and their owners.

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With emerging markets as an asset class hotter than ever, it might be expected that capital flows to them would also be hitting all-time highs. Latin America, however, seems to have been left out of the party somewhat.

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Nothing is more likely to cause instability than a long period of stability. And excessive growth of credit and liquidity is a clear warning sign of crashes to come, probably within the next year.

The unbundling of research is gathering pace again, this time driven by ­customer demand. Clients with more discerning appetites would prefer to order individual bits and pieces from a menu where the prices are clearly ­written. However, both investment banks and smaller clients are addicted to the buffet approach. Peter Koh reports.

The bank has changed. Now Green and Geoghegan’s challenge is to manage investors’ different expectations.

Despite facing fierce competition from such rivals as BNP Paribas, Citigroup, HSBC and UBS, Deutsche Bank emerged victorious in the race to secure the award for best structured product house in the Islamic finance market. Thanks to the extensive conceptual groundwork the German bank laid in 2005, in 2006 it was able to take full advantage of the explosive growth in the structured products segment of the Islamic finance market and offer a wide range of instruments spanning different asset classes and regions.

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Babson-managed CDPC takes industry to the mainstream of structured credit.

Albania has something of an image problem abroad. What scant coverage the country has received in the international press in the past has almost universally been negative in tone, focusing on drugs-trafficking, Mafia shootings, banking scandals and political mismanagement. It’s hardly the ideal news recipe if you’re looking to attract much-needed investment to a country often dubbed the poor man of Europe.