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  • The Asian meltdown has thrown up opportunity as well as crisis. For the region's big banks it is an unprecedented chance to grow into regional players as weak banks go bankrupt or are taken over. Several Asian banks have long expressed regional pretensions. But which of them stand a serious chance of becoming the pre-eminent Asian player? Steven Irvine reports.
  • Our annual ranking of the biggest banks in Asia outside Japan shows little change among the top 10. But further down the list, banks in countries such as Korea and Thailand have suffered sharp falls. Fitch IBCA supplied the data for the Asian 100 and the Japan 50.
  • Behind all the talk of Big Bang, bank recapitalization and tax cuts, Japan's real policymakers are following a path well trodden during the country's insular past. By Stephen Church.
  • They are educated in the west. They are fluent in the language of reform, privatization and transparency. They are charming and open. The crisis in Asia has thrust forward a new generation of bureaucrats, regulators and ambassadors for the region. Is this a new approach to government in Asia or is the region simply becoming better at presenting itself?
  • Japan 50: Japan's unsteady giants
  • The recent fall in oil prices might once have spelt disaster for the Saudi Arabia's banking sector - slashing government revenues and weakening banks' asset quality. But this time the authorities seem well prepared for the current wave of economic turbulence and the banks are optimistic of riding out the storm. Michael Peterson reports.
  • Which are Asia's best regarded companies? Our annual poll of analysts reveals a few surprises. Some Indonesian firms do well, but Hong Kong's banks and trading houses remain in a league of their own. Research by Alejandra Ruvalcaba.
  • At long last, lawyers are going to have to start writing in plain English - or are they? By Christopher Stoakes
  • Japan 50: Methodology
  • Internet IPOs were once regarded as highly risky. Now they rank among the best-received offerings in the global marketplace. The rapid rise in internet use has driven the perception that service providers will be worth a lot of money, and now everyone is trying to get a piece of the action. Yet the euphoria surrounding recent flotations of internet stocks may be hiding a less rosy picture for hi-tech issuers as a whole. Peter Lee reports.
  • It must be perpetual but it doesn't have to be for ever. It has to feel like equity but look - to tax authorities - like debt. Defining banks' core capital is one of the thorniest issues facing bank regulators. Antony Currie reports on the squabbles over what fits in the tier-one category.