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Poll of Polls: Methodology

Battling to join the elite: Poll of polls

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Poll of polls: Trading

Battling to join the elite: Poll of polls

January 01, 1998

BANKING

International Bond Issues: Arrival of the euro

There may still be 10 months before the euro is officially born, but in the international debt markets there is already a glut of euro activity. As Thomas Keller, treasurer at Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg (L-Bank), emphatically puts it: "The euro is coming."

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Sovereign Bonds: Argentina tries an innovative solution

For several weeks following the collapse in Asian financial markets in October, emerging market borrowers from around the world were, with a few minor exceptions, shut out of the primary debt markets. But frequent issuers can stay out of the markets for only so long.

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Poll of polls: Underwriting

Battling to join the elite: Poll of polls

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Corporate Restructuring: Spin-offs in a spin

The spin-off has been heralded as the tool of the future - the means to prepare sprawling European companies for the next century. But is it as successful as investment bankers and their clients would have us believe? Not according to Paul Gibbs, an equity analyst at JP Morgan in London.

January 01, 1998

Poll of polls 1997: Battling to join the elite

Euromoney's definitive annual guide to winners and losers in the world's capital markets charts the struggle to join the select group of top-flight firms. But a number of banks have failed to boost their position through acquisitions, and some of the most improved firms are those that have grown organically. A synthesis of all the polls run in the magazine in 1997, the poll evaluates underwriting, trading and advisory activities over the past year. By Rebecca Dobson.

January 01, 1998

Both a lender and a borrower be

With trillions of dollars of securities lent or temporarily sold each day the risks, once thought minimal, began to look higher in November. There's a rethink on counterparty risk and the practice of making a spread on lower-grade collateral, but the credit-spread business is growing. Michelle Celarier reports.

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Why didn't they fly in Breuer?

Why did NatWest refuse Deutsche Morgan Grenfell's offer of £150 million ($248 million) for the equity operations of NatWest Markets?

January 01, 1998

Keep the equity issues coming ...

Will Asia's economic crisis knock eastern Europe off course? Will political disagreement stall privatization? Will the region's small companies flock to join the stock market? Rebecca Bream gauges the flow of new east European equity in 1998 and looks ahead to the year's biggest deals.

January 01, 1998

Beware state guarantees

Lending to European borrowers backed by a government guarantee should be as safe as houses. But beware of the state aid rules, warns Christopher Stoakes.

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Twinkle little euro

Never let it be said that Euromoney doesn't break new ground in its tireless coverage of finance. Last year we brought you the news, from Bowie bonds to Chechen bonds, financing lapdancing to book-writing bankers.

January 01, 1998

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