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Riding the Tiger

Overgrown and full of deadwood

August 01, 1998

BANKING

Graham Newall, Managing director, Bank Austria Creditanstalt Futures

A smell of disinfected newness lingers in the London office of Bank Austria Creditanstalt Futures. Launched on June 1, it's the first venture in the western hemisphere to use the recently merged bank's name and corporate red is much in evidence; from the trendily designed logos emblazoning the walls to the leather sofa in reception.

August 01, 1998

BANKING

Mathis Cabiallavetta: The tragic hero of UBS

Is Mathis Cabiallavetta the Othello of the financial markets - a man who loved "not wisely but too well"? Dirk Schütz, author of the first history of the SBC/UBS merger, (Der Fall der UBS published by Bilanz), certainly blames Cab's loyalty for the quality of people he collected round him as he rose to the top of UBS.

August 01, 1998

HSBC's hunger for assets

Born out of a bloody cull, shaped by a succession of departures, HSBC Asset Management has led a tortured existence. While competitors have grown through acquisitions HSBC has been reinventing its business. The result? It's lagging behind the market leaders in both size and performance. Is now the time to buy? Andrew Capon and Julian Marshall report.

August 01, 1998

Opinion

Waiter serves Turkey

Edited by Steven Irvine

August 01, 1998

BANKING

Sunil Sreenivasan, Chief country officer, Citibank Singapore

"Just ask Sunil about his record collection," was the advice of a Hong Kong-based Citibanker, "you won't be disappointed." Sure enough, this question draws an enthusiastic response. "I think I have more CDs than certain record shops in Kuala Lumpur," laughs Sunil Sreenivasan.

August 01, 1998

Russia claws in another $3.75 billion

Issuer: Russian Federation

July 01, 1998

Marrying venture capital and high yield

A wave of venture-capital deals financed byhigh-yield debt modelled on US practice has hit Europe. But as Christopher Stoakes explains, the legal intricacies of these dealsare often different in Europe and the US.

July 01, 1998

Bruce Wasserstein, Chairman and CEO of Wasserstein Perella

When investment bankers turn to writing, few professional scribes lose sleep over the competition. A banker's motivation for putting pen to paper is often either ego or epitaph. Neither makes for a gripping read. A book by Bruce Wasserstein, co-founder of New York M&A boutique Wasserstein Perella, might therefore be expected to be met with scepticism.

July 01, 1998

The cutting edge of venture capital

The leveraged buy-out market in Europe has doubled every year since the mid-1990s. Some market participants doubt that resources and expertise are sufficient to maintain this heady pace. Nevertheless business should continue booming as European monetary union takes effect and US firms are beginning to take an interest. Rebecca Bream reports.

July 01, 1998

BANKING

Mezzanine Finance: Brady - don't you mean Darby?

When Nicholas Brady left the US treasury department at the end of the Bush administration, it was something of a no-brainer to figure out what to do next. Why not invest in the Latin American countries that his work in developing Brady bonds had helped get on the track to privatization? Starting up in 1994, his company, Darby Overseas Investors, raised $150 million for a private equity fund, one of the first of its kind for Latin America.

July 01, 1998

BANKING

Bank Supervision: Shadow boxing with the ECB

If a major bank based in euroland, such as ING or Deutsche Bank, had liquidity problems, which central bank, if any, would help with temporary funding? Would it be the European Central Bank or one at the national level?

July 01, 1998

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