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Rivals wish the Japanese investment bank all the worst.

Those who consider the trade reporting fees charged on the London Stock Exchange a thorn in their side are in for some pain relief.

Asia’s property pioneers

Hong Kong’s hard-working Filipina maids got something to smile about in November when the Philippines’ president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, made an unannounced visit to the territory after duties in Beijing at an Apec meeting.

YoursMineShag destroyed the opposition at ACI’s annual quiz.

For large integrated property developments that aim to attract communities to “live, work, play” super blocks, edge cities or lifestyle shopping and entertainment developments, careful branding and marketing are as important as capital, bricks and cement. So successful have some developers become that brands created from single projects have become exportable into other developments and even overseas.

Tensions between front and back offices over how to price cash CDOs are preying on some industry data providers’ minds.

Increased competition on cost between European exchanges might lead to liquidity fragmentation. Is there a solution to this?

The US bank has finally got what it wanted – but it remains to be seen what happens now with GDB.

First there was Pop Idol, then American Idol, and now what amounts to Internship Idol.

Don’t be fooled. The ready availability of liquidity to buy loans of distressed companies in the mid to high 90s is not a sign of health but another symptom of a market that has abandoned rationality.

One of the surprise consequences of the merger between Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI was that it resulted in yet another foreign bank carving out a strong presence in the Italian market. In exchange for its support for the merger with Sanpaolo, Intesa ceded to French bank Crédit Agricole, a long-time partner and investor, control of two regional banks and some 200 Intesa branches. But there are still questions about the future of the former partners’ asset management joint venture and some analysts question the generosity of the divorce settlement. Georges Pauget, CEO of Crédit Agricole, speaks to Peter Koh.