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Sharp-end derivatives players in the US are addressing the difficulties of transition to the euro, but the average end-user is still dreaming. Isda is pushing its Emu protocol, with mixed results. Michelle Celarier reports.

What will be the swap dealing conventions after the introduction of the euro? A recent survey gauged the expectations of market players. Antoine Kohler reports on the results.

Times may be tough in emerging markets but strong banks are doing more than just surviving. Experienced in dealing with volatility, many banks are both withstanding the shocks and positioning themselves for the next upturn. By Brian Caplen.

Could it be that Chase is not as solid as we had all been led to believe? The US bank has been eyeing acquisitions recently, leading everyone to assume that it is in rude financial health. But events at last month's five-kilometre run, the Chase Corporate Challenge at Battersea Park in London, suggested otherwise.

InterSec 250: The changing face of asset management

InterSec 250: The changing face of asset management

So far, Australia has emerged from the Asia crisis remarkably unscathed. In fact, it seems like just the right sort of stable market for European investors seeking diversification. Australian borrowers are responding by getting on the euro issuance bandwagon. Albert Smith reports.

The news of an alliance between the sleepy London Stock Exchange and the Deutsche Börse, its biggest European rival, surprised the market. Eventually the partners hope to bring in other bourses. That pleased the Dutch but the French felt slighted - they'd been courting the Germans too. The devil will be in the detail: the Germans let slip that they thought their settlement system would win out, much to the chagrin of London's CrestCo and the LSE's derivatives counterpart Liffe. So will it be London-on-the-Main or Frankfurt an der Themse? Antony Currie reports.

Overgrown and full of deadwood

One of Germany's great tacticians and diplomatic fixers, Horst Köhler is poised to step up from German domestic sagas to an international arena as the next president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Choudri Mueen Afzal, Pakistan's new secretary of finance, talks the language of reform - thinner government, improved tax collection and a sharper financial sector. People like him will carry Pakistan to the next stage of development