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  • This month sees the annual influx of capital markets luminaries to London for Euromoney's Global Borrowers and Investors Forum. Just across the English Channel, it also sees the kick-off of a minor sporting event: soccer's World Cup. Perish the thought that dedicated capital-markets players might regard attending the former as an opportunity to drop in on the odd game or two.
  • When the Asian crisis took hold the notion was that Malaysia was somehow different and could escape the worst effects. There's little room for such optimism now. How hard Malaysia lands may depend on Japanese recovery and the extent to which the government is willing to relax its fiercely nationalist economic policies. Nicholas Bradbury reports.
  • Once upon a time Spain's thoroughbred banks looked down on the cajas de ahorros. But these local savings institutions are no longer the slow beasts of burden they once were. They sell many of the same products as commercial banks; they're opening branches outside their traditional stamping grounds; some are even buying banks. But as Jules Stewart reports, they are protected from takeover themselves.
  • Chinese shares listed in Hong Kong have a habit of surprising investors. The latest issue is whether funds invested in high-interest deposits with Chinese banks are completely safe. The so-called H-shares are more used to reporting to the central planners than to shareholders - their workings can be mysterious. Pauline Loong reports.
  • Shrugging off the stereotypes
  • There must have been a few hushed silences and maybe sighs of relief when the MTN dealer community heard the market's most aggressive borrower was set to hang up her spurs.
  • Michael Spencer, founder chairman of derivatives broker Intercapital, and of gaming house City Index, should recognize good odds. He's prepared to offer them against the success of Liffe's much-touted euro swap contract, the Libor financed bond. "I bet 50-to-1 against the market trading 1,000 contracts a day on any single day before the end of this year," he tells Euromoney.
  • Selling state assets to foreign investors raises popular opposition throughout the region, but privatization is likely to remain the main source of Nordic equity offerings
  • The star performers of Nordic stock markets are not forestry, engineering or shipping companies, they are Internet, biotechnology and service-sector start-ups. But will they stay with the local markets when their capital needs grow?
  • Walter Schubert has set himself a big goal - to take Wall Street onto the net and gays out of the closet. Schubert, the first openly gay member of the New York Stock Exchange, aims to empower the gay and lesbian community financially and spiritually with his Gay Financial Network (www.gfn.com).
  • Some issuers seem to have a natural talent for tripping up syndicate banks. In this respect few borrowers rival Germany's Länder, who recently issued their fifth joint Eurobond. No Länder-Jumbo has ever been a notable success, but this deal seems to have made everyone a loser.
  • Hans-Joerg Rudloff, doyen of the Euromarket, has positioned himself perfectly for next year's skyburst of activity in euro debt financing.