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Takumi Shibata has long been considered among the most brilliant of Nomura's rising stars. "He's without doubt one of the most able at the bank," says one British banker who has known him since 1988. "Analytical, decisive, and absolutely the right man considering Nomura's strategy of giving the international business such a large sway within the firm."

The Euromoney that never was. To salute the departure of editor Garry Evans after eight years' gallant service the magazine produced a special version of its monthly cover, a real collector's item. This is Evans in his triumphant role as Alberto Schultz, the Leeson-style villain of a simulated bank crash, the Fall of Mulhouse Brand, performed last August. Evans is now a market strategist at HSBC Securities in Tokyo, researching the very stocks whose demon behaviour triggered Leeson's downfall. His fluent Japanese and skilful editorship through the volatile 1990s should prepare him for anything the Nikkei can throw at him. But will he now be able to get to closer grips with that much-needed reform of Japanese finance, which he called for so often in his editorials?

Until recently, the name of Nomura, Japan's largest investment house, did not mean much to the general public in Bulgaria. Recently, however, the Bulgarian media have been eager to find out more about Nomura as its European executives were due in town, intending to acquire one of the the country's best banks.

Journalists are a pretty useless bunch who drink too much and should be kept at arm's length. That's a view many people in the markets openly or secretly harbour. Not Dresdner RCM Global Investors.

Following a Dutch World Cup soccer victory against Germany in 2002 the Dutch are emboldened to walk out of European economic and monetary union.

Move over Bob Dylan, here comes Got Jakapun and his own brand of social comment, Thai style.

MoF fries in "no pan shabu shabu"

What more proof could there be that banking stays in the blood? After a five-year stint as chairman of the UK's Securities & Investments Board (SIB), Sir Andrew Large is returning to the coal face by becoming Sir Peter Middleton's replacement as deputy chairman at Barclays.

MoF fries in "no pan shabu shabu"

Blue Flag, the regulatory database developed by Linklaters, is the benchmark by which all capital-markets law firms should be judged, says Christopher Stoakes.

Travel narrows the mind, say the cynics. Andreas von Buddenbrock, who is not the least bit cynical, is inclined to agree.