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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

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

Opinion

Emerging banks: threat of systemic collapse?

Economic growth in several major east Asian, Latin American and eastern European economies will halt in 1998. Emerging market banks' $550 billion of non-performing loans (probably well above $600 billion if unofficial estimates are correct) may cause a rash of failures or even systemic financial crisis in some countries. Korea, China and Slovakia are among the most vulnerable.

January 01, 1998

Extended advising poll

January 01, 1998

Ambrosiano makes a splash in calm waters

Issuer: Ambroveneto International Bank

January 01, 1998

Extended advising poll, Extended overall results, Extended trading poll, Extended underwriting poll

Extended advising poll

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

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

Caught with their pants down?

Rating agencies have been strongly criticized for failing to spot the Asian crisis. Investment-grade bonds have been downgraded to junk status - but only after problems have appeared and without much warning. For the first time the agencies are having to justify themselves. Are they as good in Asia as they are in the US? Steven Irvine reports.

January 01, 1998

Buy when the blood flows

When markets crash canny investors seize the opportunity to buy cheap. A few will make huge profits from the turmoil. But it's a risky business. Calling the bottom and selecting recovery stocks is challenging the analysts. No wonder the majority of investors are too terrified to come off the sidelines. Peter Lee talked to strategists about their 1998 plans.

January 01, 1998

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