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Mexico: And now for the good news

Prospects for the beleagured Mexican banking sector have improved following an agreement on restructuring that many analysts feel goes beyond expectations

January 01, 1999

BANKING

Pick a benchmark, any benchmark

European Equities: The great equity rebalancing act

January 01, 1999

BANKING

Poll of polls: Overall results

Poll of Polls: Warburg's excellently average performance

January 01, 1999

BANKING

Poll of Polls: Methodology

Poll of Polls: Warburg's excellently average performance

January 01, 1999

BANKING

Prophet of Basle

John Heimann, chairman of the global financial institutions group at Merrill Lynch and a member of the firm's executive management committee, takes up a new position next month. After 14 years at Merrill he is retiring from Merrill to become chairman of the Financial Stability Institute at the Bank for International Settlements.

January 01, 1999

Asset Management: Allianz wants other people's money

Allianz has a 100-year history of managing insurance assets. Internationalization of capital markets, fierce competition in asset management and the arrival of the euro have prompted the company to set up a third-party investment firm. Is Allianz Asset Management ready for the challenge ahead?

Julian Marshall, January 01, 1999

Czech Republic: Banks prepare for privatization

The Czech Republic's voucher privatization left old managements in control of companies still owned - now indirectly - by the state. Though not the only reason for the country's transformation from regional leader to laggard, the mishandled sale of state assets weighs heavy on the economy. Will the government get the sale of the big state-owned banks right? Rebecca Bream reports.

January 01, 1999

Chicago Exchanges: Working against the grain

Last month the grain floor at the Chicago Board of Trade voted in a chairman after its own heart. To the big banks trading on the Chicago exchanges it looked like another setback for the modernization they crave. It's not just electronic trading that's at issue, but also cooperation - and possibly mergers - between Chicago's three derivatives exchanges that may prove vital to stave off competition.

Antony Currie, January 01, 1999

Turning Russian debt into equity

Robert Sexton of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, Paris, explains how debt-equity swaps could help foreign creditors seeking recovery of Russian loans given the precedent of the US junk bond crisis

January 01, 1999

KLM: a high-flying investment opportunity

As the founding member of one of the strongest and most successful global alliances in the airline industry, KLM is again the first to take leadership in the creation of a global airline system. Today, with a second global partnership in place with Alitalia and a firm business strategy focusing on the company's core activities, the Dutch airline looks set to consolidate its leading market position

January 01, 1999

Internet reconciles 100 lawyers

The euro may cause glitches in some areas of the capital markets, but probably relatively few in swaps or derivatives, thanks to some smart thinking last year, says Christopher Stoakes

January 01, 1999

Chinese Central Banking: Removing the little emperors

It has taken almost two decades of reform but the People's Bank of China (PBOC) believes 1999 will at last see it join the ranks of the world's independent central banks. The big revamp, long-awaited and finally announced towards the end of last year, involves replacing the bank's provincial-level structures with nine regional entities which will answer only to Beijing.

January 01, 1999

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