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  • Peregrine's last days, by Andre Lee
  • The secrecy of the negotiations and the price paid stunned the City into awed silence. Merrill Lynch's takeover was certainly a good deal for Mercury Asset Management's shareholders. But was Merrill so taken with the brand name that it underestimated the fund manager's problems? Mercury has little room for growth at home and has never had much success expanding abroad. Mercury wants to keep some independence, but how long before it gets Merrillized? Antony Currie reports.
  • The government has changed, but the story remains the same: unscrupulous Russian managers ride roughshod over the rights of pioneering foreign investors. But the wild frontier of capitalism is not as wild as it used to be. Some recent disputes about corporate governance are far from clear-cut. And behind the scenes, the rule of law is being strengthened. Charles Piggott reports
  • Telstra fuels an equity boom
  • When the Czech Republic privatized its communist-era industry in the early 1990s it made a serious mistake. It left the banks in state hands. Selling the banks is more difficult now. Their stock has fallen; their loan books are weak; and political opposition to the sell-off is strong. Nigel Dudley reports
  • 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
  • Investment bankers scouring Russia for the next juicy deal are salivating at the prospect of mortgage-backed securities written off Russian property.
  • Peregrine's last days, by Andre Lee
  • When a top Malaysian bank revealed its losses in March, the country was stunned. The suicidal lending of Sime Bank undermined the government's claim that Asia's problems were not Malaysia's problems. The country was just as stunned when top financier Rashid Hussain stepped in to buy the troubled bank. Steven Irvine reports.
  • 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."
  • How did Asia's foremost investment bank come to grief? Andre Lee - seen by many as the villain of the piece - speaks out for the first time. He tells Peter Lee about the internal tensions at Peregrine, the role of his fixed-income business, the firm's culture of credit management and the source of the rumours that broke the bank