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  • Equity markets have been booming and brokers are expanding. But it is no easy ride for Europe's stockbrokers: investors demand better research but use less of it, and most are cutting the number of firms they deal with. The Euromoney/Global Investor annual poll shows which European firms are rated best by their clients and Benjamin Ensor reports on the struggle to join the small elite of truly international brokers.
  • Pulling away from the pack
  • Two civil servants, the treasury secretary and the central bank governor, are spearheading Turkey's first credible attack on inflation in a decade. Both are graduates of Ankara's historic School of Political Science, the Mulkiye, as are many of the government's top decision-makers. A fellow graduate, Metin Munir, reports.
  • The newly formed Financial Services Authority will be the guardian of prudence and good conduct in the UK market, while the Bank of England will take care of liquidity and anything it sees as threatening the stability of the financial system.
  • Investors have warmed to the planned merger between Bayerische Vereinsbank and Bayerische Hypo-Bank because it promises substantial cost reductions. But that's only half the story. Cost-cutting could take years and Albrecht Schmidt's grandiose expansion plans will soon demand ambitious new spending. Worse still, Germany's meticulous corporate law will take months to let the merger through. Can Schmidt keep the shareholders and staff on his side until next autumn? By Laura Covill.
  • With the reliable income of a bond and the growth potential of an equity, convertibles appeal to a large set of investors. The only thing holding back the growth of Euroconvertibles has been the dearth of quality issuers. But now, as Nigel Dudley reports, new structures are bringing some major borrowers into the sector for the first time.
  • At some stage, most EU countries will give up sovereignty over their own currency and will adopt the euro. So investors who have been buying European government debt will have a new decision to make: whose euro government bonds do they buy? Among the criteria will be spread margin, liquidity, flexibility and the less tangible measure: user-friendliness. Robert Minto reports.
  • Issuing a Eurobond in an east European currency and swapping the proceeds into dollars can produce rock-bottom financing costs with minimal currency risk. The only problem? Most governments don't allow it yet. But as Theodore Kim reports, deregulation could open promising new currency sectors to issuers and investor demand is already growing.
  • Issuer: Natexis Banque
  • October's downturn in stock markets could be a blessing. Most markets haven't yet crashed in a way that is damaging to economies (except in Asia) but the falls were a timely reminder that prices go down as well as up. Barring a more severe shock, the effects of the volatility could be benign. A saner approach by investors and capital raisers is expected.
  • Pulling away from the pack
  • As Argentine pension and mutual funds mushroom, strong foreign interest has added to demand for government debt, corporate bonds and IPOs. But as Michael Marray reports, 1998 could be an even better year for Argentine issues