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BANKING

Technology leader offers top-tier cash forecasting

SEB, winner of the Euromoney Technology Award for Cash Management 2005, provides a best-of-breed web-based solution and client-centred services for group-wide cash forecasting.

March 01, 2006

Opinion

Lehman’s defensive play is a boost to the Steelers

Lehman's Grant Bowman has a taste of Superbowl fame in the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad.

Kathryn Tully, March 01, 2006

Opinion

Lessons learnt from Argentina’s financial crisis

Argentina’s debt default, devaluation and subsequent recovery is, along with Enron’s fall from grace, the biggest financial story of the decade.

Clive Horwood, March 01, 2006

“Can you pay me before I die?”

Inside Argentina’s financial crisis | Why Lavagna was the only man for the job | The fall and rise of Argentina

March 01, 2006

BANKING

Russian banks come with high price tag

The market is attractive to potential foreign acquirers, but the process of acquisition is proving far from easy. Patrick Gill reports.

March 01, 2006

CAPITAL MARKETS

Second-lien financing: Untapped resource or risk?

Second-lien financings grew dramatically in 2005. Total US second-lien loan issuance alone amounted to more than $22 billion in 2005. In Europe, second-lien issuance totalled €5.75 billion in 2005, rising from €1.88 billion in 2004.

Denise Bedell, March 01, 2006

BANKING

MIDEAST: Lack of products makes investors demand more

Supply of both Islamic-compliant and conventional instruments has so far failed to keep up with the voracious levels of demand across the Middle East, but there are signs that product-starved investors might now begin to see a steadier flow, though far-reaching challenges remain. Kathryn Wells reports.

Kathryn Wells, March 01, 2006

Country risk poll: Methodology

To obtain the overall country risk score, Euromoney assigns a weighting to nine categories. These are political risk (25% weighting), economic performance (25%), debt indicators (10%), debt in default or rescheduled (10%), credit ratings (10%), access to bank finance (5%), access to short-term finance (5%), access to capital markets (5%), forfaiting (5%).

Paul Pedzinksi, March 01, 2006

CAPITAL MARKETS

Credit derivatives: Go easy on the curves

LBOs and technicals have boosted betting on the continuing steepness of the European credit curve. But nothing good lasts for ever and several things could upset the apple cart.

Simon Boughey, March 01, 2006

BANKING

Why SCB’s Khunying Jada Watthanasiritham is excited by Thai markets

Thai capital markets are set for a bull run. SCB's president, Khunying Jada Watthanasiritham, expains how her bank, and other local firms, can profit despite growing interest from international banks.

Peter Koh, March 01, 2006

BANKING

LATAM: Foreign banks open a second front

Further consolidation in Latin America’s banking industry is expected on the back of strong economic growth and financial stability. Foreign banks, which were active acquirers in the 1990s, are expected to play a big part in this. Leticia Lozano reports.

Leticia Lozano, March 01, 2006

BANKING

Joining the dots: controlling cross-border liquidity

Increasing regulatory and governance pressures for more direct control and accountability of treasury processes has changed the relationship between corporates and their bank partners.

March 01, 2006

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