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E-commerce - Redefining exchanges

Bank capital - From a trickle to a flood

The rankings were compiled in conjunction with Fitch IBCA. All information was supplied by Fitch IBCA from commercial banks' annual reports and financial statements. Where possible, figures are presented in consolidated form and banks owned by other financial institutions are not listed separately.

Asia's best companies 1999

Asia 100 1999 - Cleaning the hives

Author: Pauline Loong

Deals of the year - Top quality issuers succeed in demanding markets

John Grisham got it wrong of course. Grand Cayman is not a place where private aircraft land at night and men in dark glasses deliver bulging suitcases of banknotes to dummy banks sporting no more than brass nameplates.

Deals of the year - Top quality issuers succeed in demanding markets

The United States Senate confirmed Comptroller of the Currency John D Hawke, Jr in October for a five-year term. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) within the US treasury charters and regulates national banks, a total of approximately 2,400 institutions, including most large banks in the US as well as 59 federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the US. But the OCC appears to be losing regulatory turf under the new modernization bill which grants authority to the Federal Reserve to regulate new financial holding companies.