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  • 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.
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  • "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."
  • Each time a financial institution is bailed out in Brazil it adds to the workload of the art curators at the Banco Central.
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  • One thing stopping banks from trading loans in the secondary market is the lack of standardized documentation. But as Christopher Stoakes reports, this may be about to change.
  • October's downturn in stock markets could be a blessing. Most markets haven't yet crashed in a way that is damaging to economies (except in Asia) but the falls were a timely reminder that prices go down as well as up. Barring a more severe shock, the effects of the volatility could be benign. A saner approach by investors and capital raisers is expected.