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  • One of southeast Asia’s top finance officials says that the region must continue to harmonize if it is to stave off the threat of growing competition from China and other north Asian economies.
  • Refco, the troubled commodities and futures brokerage that went into financial meltdown after allegations of executive fraud surfaced in October, is likely to sell its futures business to private-equity firm JC Flowers. The company is also expected to put its capital markets business into bankruptcy. [see market leaders section, this issue -- Refco deals out a harsh lesson -- for comment]
  • Fresh from big spending on China’s state lenders, global banks are lining up to buy into its securities industry.
  • Sales of non-performing loan and real estate portfolios to foreign investors have stirred controversy in Germany, with the buyers being described by a senior politician as “a plague of locusts”. But the medium-term benefits could go beyond a much-needed injection of liquidity and balance sheet repair and provide a fresh impetus to the German economy.
  • Venezuela’s president is also unlikely to endear himself to Washington after saying that he has sold $20 billion of foreign reserves, mostly in US treasuries, over the past four months and deposited the funds at the Bank for International Settlements in Basle. A central bank director admitted that Venezuela had sold some of its holdings of treasuries, citing financial reasons. Some analysts, though, reckon the move was motivated more by political reasons.
  • Regulatory pressure has forced a crackdown on transaction delays.
  • 632 The number of entities at risk of downgrade as of mid-September this year, according to a report from Standard & Poor’s.
  • Turkey looks set to be the next great EU convergence play. Now foreign banks want a piece of the aciton. But the owners of the country's financial institutions are seeking to form strategic partnerships rather than relinquish ultimate control. Kathryn Wells reports.
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  • Fears of oversupply fade in Europe.
  • Airline is courting controversy with creditors after abandoning leased aircraft.
  • Korea’s love-hate relationship with foreign capital continues. In October, the government announced that it would be seeking tax payments totalling $210 million from five foreign private-equity investment firms that relate to profits earned from investments in Korean businesses.