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Runner-up: UBS Warburg

With Brazil and Argentina hors de combat and Mexico replete, bankers are busy looking for smaller Latin deals, including escape routes for burnt foreign investors.

The leveraged buy-out market in Europe is booming as shareholders press European companies to focus on core businesses and indebted firms shed assets. Even after private equity firms’ write-downs of portfolio companies, there’s lots of capital chasing bargains.

For Euromoney’s third annual internet awards, six journalists examined over 300 websites in 60 categories to find the very best online services in wholesale finance. These articles profile the banks and independent sites that excel in their areas.

Fund managers are losing $6 billion every year because they are not reclaiming the withholding tax that they are entitled to, according to a new report. Investors and custody banks have been aware of the problem for years, but this is the first time that anyone has measured how much the fund managers are owed.

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Extensive revisions to capital requirements under Basle II will force structural changes in the financial services industry, offering advantages to some institutions and hindering others.

Good old-fashioned dividends are coming back into vogue. Nearly three years after previously soaring stocks came crashing down, investors are starting to show more interest in getting a steady income stream from equity investments.

Since the end of October, following the Bali nightclub bombing, Indonesia has found itself in a group of countries that even Afghanistan doesn't quite belong to. Although the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office seems to think that parts of Kabul are safe to visit, it advises against all travel to Indonesia. And that slaps the same warning sticker on Indonesia as on Burundi (civil war) Liberia (civil war) Somalia (anarchy and kidnappings) and Iraq (self-explanatory). The pleadings of Indonesian politicians that their country is not a terrorist-infested, extremist Muslim state have so far fallen on deaf ears.

Merrill Lynch wins a special award for most improved bank in fixed income partly because it has overhauled its technology, It has rolled out a number of new features, many of which are very sales-friendly. And it has done all this cheaply.

Creditex is an interdealer credit broker that finalizes all trades over the phone. But it uses the internet to deliver real-time prices and historical data in a way that greatly adds to the market's transparency and speed.