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The EU-induced removal of state guarantees to the Landesbanken has prompted mergers and other inter-bank arrangements. But competition remains a burning issue in Germany's overbanked market and there is room and a need for much more consolidation.

Why biggest isn't always smartest | Methodology

The SEC doesn't know how many hedge funds there are and distrusts their secretive ways. Its ruling that they should register with it has prompted claims that it is ultra vires, will raise costs to unsustainable levels and reduce the competitiveness of onshore US funds. Unsurprisingly some funds are seeking ways to sidestep the requirement.

Euromoney has revamped its internet technology awards, which in past years have appeared in our November edition, so as significantly to enhance their usefulness for our readers. In the past, teams of Euromoney journalists have visited banks and other providers for demonstrations of their internet and other electronic offerings in the foreign exchange, fixed income, equity, derivatives and investor services marketplaces. The journalists have then chosen winners across a variety of categories based on breadth of functionality and ease of use of electronic platforms. In making these judgments, our journalists have acted almost as a proxy for providers' own customers. This year, Euromoney directly surveyed banks' and other providers' customer bases and asked end users which banks and other professional market players were doing the best job in providing internet and electronic services across a range of markets and functions.

A handful of high-yield bond deals from Chinese issuers in the past six months seems to presage vast hitherto untapped issuance. But although investment banks are keen to tap demand, insiders warn that real Chinese exposure remains scarce and that risks are high.

Why biggest isn't always smartest | Methodology

New approaches to managing currency funds have proliferated as demand holds up from investors disillusioned by poor performance in other asset classes. But could the market be getting saturated?

Chris Calkin, Director of Finance & Information, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chris has worked in the NHS for the last 29 years holding senior positions in Finance & Information and General Management, the last 13 years at Board level. Robert A Naylor, Chief Executive, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Robert has been a Chief Executive in the NHS for twenty years and has been Chief Executive of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) since November 2000.

While France's 50-year OAT is creating a new segment on the euro yield curve, many other sovereigns are making the most of the clamour for long-dated bonds

With tongue firmly in cheek, regional broker CLSA launched its annual Feng Shui Index report early in February, offering prognostications for the Chinese Year of the Rooster. Now in its 14th year, the report, this time entitled "Rooster Oracles", is a humorous look at what the year might hold for the market in Hong Kong, one of the world's most superstitious places.

Supporters of PFI note that more hospitals have been built in the UK in the last 10 years than in the previous 50. Detractors think the capital inflows are being spent on the wrong assets in the wrong places, leaving the future as uncertain as ever.