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CAPITAL MARKETS

Roaring back

Emerging-market investment bankers have been tramping the corridors of power in Kiev ever since Ukraine showed signs of shrugging off its economic torpor in 2000. Bond investors are now following. Nick Parsons reports.

Nick Parsons, January 01, 2004

Foreign Exchange

Tenge places seal on break with Russia

In the summer and autumn of 1993, fewer than a dozen officials worked feverishly in complete secrecy to save Kazakhstan from raging post-Soviet inflation and introduce its first-ever national currency.

January 01, 2004

CAPITAL MARKETS

The accidental Bosnian

Bosnia and Herzegovina's central bank governor is an unlikely Bosnian. He doesn't speak any of the country's three languages. He doesn't particularly identify with any of the three ethnic groups, or hold grudges against the other ones. Even his name, Peter Nicholl, is not typically Balkan. Yet a card-carrying Bosnian he is. As of 2002, Nicholl took Bosnian citizenship, to comply with a law decreeing that the central bank governor had to be a local. It was, he says, "an honour".

Julian Evans, January 01, 2004

Foreign Exchange

Currency hike puts boot into Cape Town attractions

Veteran visitors to South Africa are always full of good ideas for things to do for those who are about to go for the first time.

January 01, 2004

Opinion

Deutsche's bankers do their bit

Investment bankers are used to pitching for business in far-flung places. But even for such old pros as Deutsche Bank's Ken Borda and Jeremy Paul, the hill tribes of northern Thailand must have seemed an unlikely venue.

Chris Leahy, January 01, 2004

BANKING

Europe's retail market to get fair deal

Europe's retail investors are about to be inundated with securities that claim to put them on a par with the most prized funds.

January 01, 2004

Opinion

Black economy keeps EU snail slithering along

It is a common view, especially in the US, that continental Europe is shackled by big government and a lack of reform. The corollary is that its economy and its stock markets will underperform those of the US or the UK.

David Roche, January 01, 2004

BANKING

Breakingviews: Mol puts Hungary on the takeover map

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John Paul Rathbone, January 01, 2004

CAPITAL MARKETS

Coca-Cola HBC gears up to cut capital cost

Most corporates are trying hard to improve credit ratings. But Coca-Cola's second biggest bottler, frustrated with its rating by Moody's after improving its ratios, is bucking the trend by increasing its debt regardless. Kathryn Tully reports.

Kathryn Tully, January 01, 2004

BANKING

Shopping spree signals global ambitions

Not long ago, any claim that Indian manufacturers could make acquisitions abroad would have been dismissed as wishful thinking. Cheap IT services and software development might some day make India a global player in the services industry but it had clearly missed the opportunity in manufacturing.

Kala Rao, January 01, 2004

BANKING

Can clients and shareholders both win in private banking?

There are two types of banks – those that are good to work for and those that are good to own. Investment banks fall into the first category. They deliver huge financial rewards to their employees, who have succeeded through good times and bad in extracting extraordinarily high pay in return for risking shareholders' capital. If their bets pay off, they scoop a healthy chunk of the winnings. If they don't, bankers can lose only their jobs.

January 01, 2004

CAPITAL MARKETS

The team approach to distressed debt

Deal: Cablecom's debt-for-equity swap

Mark Brown, January 01, 2004

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