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HSBC goes greener

HSBC is going ?carbon neutral.? It plans to plant trees, buy green electricity and trade emission allowances to abate its contribution to the release of greenhouse gas.

Deborah Kimbell, January 01, 2005

Opinion

Score one for the little guy

Hong Kong's LINK REIT juggernaut rolled into town last month. The $2.7 billion IPO of the local Housing Authority's portfolio of retail outlets and car parks, packaged as a real estate investment trust and lead managed by Goldman Sachs, HSBC and UBS, LINK was the world's largest REIT.

Chris Leahy, January 01, 2005

Opinion

Footsie gets high on booze and bonhomie

If you want stock markets to rise, simply supply the City with more booze. Stocks and shares website ADVFN says that in 16 of the last 20 Decembers the FTSE 100 has gone up, and the month has been responsible for 25% of whatever rises there have been in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1930.

Helen Avery, January 01, 2005

Are banks overstretched on private-equity finance?

The equity market is dull and M&A patchy but private equity is on fire. Barely a week goes by without a landmark deal. What is especially striking is the amounts private-equity houses have been able to pay for their targets. And that is a function of how much they have been able to borrow.

Mike Monnelly, January 01, 2005

LSE counter-attacks Swiss upstarts

The London Stock Exchange might be willing to countenance merger discussions once again with Deutsche Börse, but it is not content to stand idly by while the Swiss Exchange (SWX) tries to poach its lucrative Eurobond business.

Kathryn Tully, January 01, 2005

BANKING

Corporate Finance magazine January 2005

January 01, 2005

BANKING

REITs hit the streets

Recent IPOs show that that property investment vehicles known as REITs, popular in western markets, might be gaining a foothold in Asia. If REITs win mainstream acceptance they could change the landscape of Asia's markets, offering extra flexibility to property companies and steady yields to investors. Chris Leahy reports.

Chris Leahy, January 01, 2005

Opinion

Here comes the euro

Could the euro overtake the dollar as the world's premier reserve currency soon? Yes, says Niall Ferguson, professor of international history at Harvard University. At Euromoney's Euro Fixed-Income Forum in Paris last month, Ferguson said that a growing US fiscal deficit in the short term, and the likely bankruptcy of the US social security system, could produce a crisis of confidence in the dollar.

Mark Johnson, January 01, 2005

Catella Property Group: A real-estate niche

Return to UBS tops private banking poll

Julie Dalla-Costa, January 01, 2005

Merrill Lynch Private Banking: A head start in hedge funds

Return to UBS tops private banking poll

Chris Leahy, January 01, 2005

BANKING

Investors buoy up US high-yield

Strong demand kept US high-yield new issues flowing fast through the usually quiet end-of-year period. But with the market open to issuers from all sectors with often untested track records, are buyers riding for a fall? Kathryn Tully reports.

Kathryn Tully, January 01, 2005

CAPITAL MARKETS

Citi's rare exchangeable pleases the regulator

Back to Polish Banking

Julian Evans, January 01, 2005

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