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Broadening horizons - Battered but still standing

Interest rates and bond yields are up, the rouble is under pressure and money is flowing out of the country. But Russia could survive the crisis in better shape than other emerging markets. And, as Ronan Lyons reports, if it brings banking consolidation, greater fiscal maturity and a new breed of long-term foreign investors, so much the better

January 01, 1998

Pakistan: Problems paying power bills

Pakistan's power privatization programme was once the jewel in the crown of a country whose private sector was generally underdeveloped and poorly performing.

January 01, 1998

Opinion

The boom in Doom

If you're impressed with the inexplicably long hours your colleagues have been putting in over the past couple of months, ask them what they've been up to. They may be part of the growing number whiling away the small hours playing computer games such as Doom, a virtual-reality shoot-'em-up game of extreme violence.

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Need for stronger Chinese walls

Velvet costs are piling up

January 01, 1998

Top fifty under forty: Euromoney's rising stars

They flyfish, birdwatch, trek and mountain climb. They have brought us Bowie bonds and Brady bonds. They've worked on privatizations and flotations. They head top banks, have founded their own firms, introduced new markets and strengthened fragile emerging economies. Meet Euromoney's top fifty financial whizzkids from around the world - and take note. They are impressive now, but their peers believe they are destined for even greater things

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Power dressing finale

It's often said that Hong Kong moves faster than other places. And staff at Indosuez WI Carr can testify to just how quickly life can change. In the space of a week the firm went from all the bacchanalia associated with a bull market to huge job cuts.

January 01, 1998

And then there were three

On Friday November 21, when the board of Yamaichi Securities met to discuss downsizing the firm, president Shohei Nozawa stunned board members by proposing instead that it should wind itself up. Andrew Horvat reports on the events leading to the collapse of one of Japan's big four securities houses.

January 01, 1998

Star-gazing in Switzerland

You read it here first. In May 1996 Euromoney quoted a normally well-informed source in Switzerland as follows: "Who do you think has been buying UBS shares for the past few weeks?" Swiss Bank Corporation, he says. "They're already merging, they're doing a dance together." Apparently they had been doing this dance since 1995.

January 01, 1998

After the fun - the real challenge

They were sent from Athens, London and Madrid. They burned the midnight oil and engaged in intellectual debate, hammering out the finer points of monetary union. But by spring, the economists will be rolling up their spreadsheets and leaving Frankfurt as the European Monetary Institute is transformed into the European Central Bank. In the meantime, the battle for influence has to be won all over again. In the committee rooms, it is already beginning. By Laura Covill.

January 01, 1998

BANKING

It's the way he tells them

Reading economic reports can be a chore, even for the committed. So it is hardly surprising that those who write them try to liven them up. Some opt for catchy titles, but at Bankers Trust in London economist Ian Amstead goes that little bit further.

January 01, 1998

Who wants an Indonesian investment bank?

Issuer: PT Makindo

January 01, 1998

BANKING

The end of Hokkaido Takushoku

And then there were three

January 01, 1998

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