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Details of the inaugural euromoney.com internet awards were made available through the homepage of euromoney.com three months before publication of the results. We listed the main categories – such as fixed income, equities and foreign exchange – in which we would be judging sites, along with the contact numbers and email addresses of our researchers. Companies that we expected to be major players in a number of categories were also contacted directly.

Best bank site for bond trading

Best site for fixed income analytics

Best non-bank site for equity trading

Star fund managers are not often noted for their modesty. Hedge fund managers even less so.

Author: Tessa Oakley

Desperate times demand desperate measures. But the decision by politically embattled Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid to shore up support by allowing indebted conglomerates to get off the hook could easily backfire.

Best bank site for equity trading

If Steve Pellatier has his way, everyone will be able to invest in pre-IPO companies. Or at least everyone who meets the requirements laid down by regulators. Pellatier is the CEO of Offroad Capital, which is trying to open the private equity market to individuals and smaller institutions, although Pellatier prefers the term private securities, as he doesn't want to limit opportunities purely to equities. He does not skimp on ambition and wants Offroad Capital to be "the predominant global private securities marketplace by using the internet to bring together investors, issuers and intermediaries".

Author: Avinash Persaud

Best consortium site for bond trading

Tough competition, thin margins and the application of electronic technology are crucial themes in custody in Asia as in the rest of the world. With customers driving hard bargains on basic services, custodians are doing their best to persuade them of the benefits of a range of add-on services including performance and risk management tools. In the process, smaller local custodians are losing ground. Gill Baker reports