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  • Peregrine's last days, by Andre Lee
  • Citicafe is no ordinary bank cafeteria. "The old place was so drab," says Sunil Sreenivasan, chief executive of Citibank Malaysia. "I told the architect I wanted something equal to or better than where the kids go."
  • Indian companies lack predatory instincts. But in March they discovered a mean streak. A rash of hostile takeover bids - the worst in India - has perked up a dull stock market. These events will, in the coming weeks, test the new takeover code put in place by the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in February even as the code itself is being challenged in Indian courts.
  • Reshaping the future
  • Pedro Luis Uriarte is not a man to mince his words. When asked at a recent meeting with analysts in London what he saw as the way forward for Spanish banking in the context of a single-currency Europe, the 55-year-old chief executive of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (BBV), the country's biggest bank, casually said he thought it would be a good idea to merge with arch-rival Banco Santander.
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  • Ghana has built a framework to enable economic takeoff. But sufficient investment is still lacking and development has now been further hampered by an energy shortage. By Christina Katsouris and Philip Eade
  • Romania was slow to restructure its communist-era economy. And now reforms are stalled again. But foreign institutions are confident of the country's long-term potential and the competition for the first privatization mandates has been fought hard. Meanwhile, some banks are concentrating on building a presence in the retail market
  • Only invest in Russia, say old hands, if you can afford to - and can't afford not to. Companies building factories and brands in Russia face formidable difficulties. Agreements thrashed out with the federal authorities in Moscow are overturned by local officials. Taxes, operating licences and regulations are all subject to change at a moment's notice
  • With more proven reserves than they know what to do with, Russia's oil companies are keen to take on the world. But to become world beaters they need to restructure, improve their management and form partnerships with western companies
  • Despite nearly breaking up soon after independence, Moldova rapidly established a good reputation with international lenders and investors. It wasn't to last. Worse was to come: not least a stalled privatization programme, an agricultural slump and serious payment problems for energy purchases from Russia. Gavin Gray reports on the attempt to put things together again.
  • Unless you are a strategic investor, it has never been easy to buy into a big Kazakh company. But that could soon change. The government plans to float its stakes in the cream of the country's industry. The success of this blue-chip privatization will hinge on investor sentiment towards emerging markets. So far, Kazakhstan has weathered the storm from Asia better than other countries in the former Soviet Union. Gavin Gray reports