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  • Making new flexible friends
  • This month Bulgaria starts drafting plans to privatize Bulbank. This is the biggest and best of the six state-owned banks which the pro-market Union of Democratic Forces government slated for privatization when it took power earlier this year. The first to be sold was United Bulgarian Bank in July. Expressbank, Bulgarian Post Bank, Hebrosbank and Commercial Bank Biochim are next in line along with Bulbank. Together they account for some 84% of the banking market.
  • Orphaning BZW
  • Each time a financial institution is bailed out in Brazil it adds to the workload of the art curators at the Banco Central.
  • "I could spend half a million dollars on advertising," says Tony May, the owner of Gemelli, a new restaurant in New York's World Trade Centre. "I'd rather spend it on the customers."
  • The newly formed Financial Services Authority will be the guardian of prudence and good conduct in the UK market, while the Bank of England will take care of liquidity and anything it sees as threatening the stability of the financial system.
  • Investors have warmed to the planned merger between Bayerische Vereinsbank and Bayerische Hypo-Bank because it promises substantial cost reductions. But that's only half the story. Cost-cutting could take years and Albrecht Schmidt's grandiose expansion plans will soon demand ambitious new spending. Worse still, Germany's meticulous corporate law will take months to let the merger through. Can Schmidt keep the shareholders and staff on his side until next autumn? By Laura Covill.
  • With the reliable income of a bond and the growth potential of an equity, convertibles appeal to a large set of investors. The only thing holding back the growth of Euroconvertibles has been the dearth of quality issuers. But now, as Nigel Dudley reports, new structures are bringing some major borrowers into the sector for the first time.
  • At some stage, most EU countries will give up sovereignty over their own currency and will adopt the euro. So investors who have been buying European government debt will have a new decision to make: whose euro government bonds do they buy? Among the criteria will be spread margin, liquidity, flexibility and the less tangible measure: user-friendliness. Robert Minto reports.
  • Issuing a Eurobond in an east European currency and swapping the proceeds into dollars can produce rock-bottom financing costs with minimal currency risk. The only problem? Most governments don't allow it yet. But as Theodore Kim reports, deregulation could open promising new currency sectors to issuers and investor demand is already growing.
  • Issuer: Natexis Banque
  • Issuer: Capital One Bank