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CAPITAL MARKETS

The last emperor

For 40 years, all roads of Italian capitalism have led to a single man at a single merchant bank – Enrico Cuccia and Mediobanca. During the past four years this obsessively secretive 80 year old, whom his close friend André Meyer considered to be Europe’s best financier, was nearly dethroned. He stays, but what succeeds him? Steven Solomon looks at the man who has built up Italy’s oligopolistic family capitalism.

October 01, 1988

BANKING

Inside the Kuwait Investment Office

Secretive, aggressive, unpredictable and highly successful, the state fund managers of the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO) are among the world's most important investors. Only the Swiss Big Three banks have more funds invested internationally than the $60 billion or more of the tiny emirate's oil wealth now in play around the globe. Who makes the decisions? What's the strategy? And what are the internal politics? By Martin French

March 01, 1988

WEALTH

Safra's private war with Amexco

Private banking is a business that more and more banks want to be in. It looks easy; go to Geneva and buy one of the banks already operating there. American Express did that, and had the foresight to ensure that the old owner, Edmond Safra, would not compete directly for five years. The five years are up next month, and Safra has a score to settle.

February 01, 1988

CAPITAL MARKETS

The crash of ’87: New York’s inevitable test

Everyone within hailing distance of Wall and Broad streets on the afternoon of October 19 may have experienced the same feeling: that our lives had taken one of those profound turns that would affect us in ways we couldn’t yet know.

December 01, 1987

WEALTH

Private banking clients: sometimes eccentric, always profitable

A private banker is a friend, confidant and counsellor to an often idiosyncratic client. It's an intimate relationship, and a lucrative one. The Swiss still lead the field.

November 01, 1987

BANKING

Scholey of Warburg puts his skis on

Big Bang has not been kind to British banks. Midland and Lloyds have their troubles. Hill Samuel failed to merge with UBS; Morgan Grenfell may be looking for a buyer. Yet the SG Warburg Group has emerged from Big Bang with a cohesion and profitability that is the envy of its merchant banking rivals – the flagship of the UK securities industry. But how? And whither Warburg now?

September 01, 1987

CAPITAL MARKETS

From the flames, a new market

Are we about to witness the creation of a great Third World debt market? Will LDC loans be transformed into junk bonds and equities on a grand scale? Idle talk, some will say, but, in this special report, Euromoney argues the case for believing that a new market will soon rise like a phoenix from the flames.

September 01, 1987

CAPITAL MARKETS

There are still gold nuggets in junk

Drexel was first into junk bonds; now there’s a gold rush – how much is worth competing for?

Ollard, William, February 02, 1987

BANKING

See what the boys in the back street will do

There could scarcely be a greater contrast: in the financial heart of Zurich, in restrained classical grandeur, Credit Suisse and Union Bank of Switzerland make the Bahnhofstrasse neighbourhood still more stately--and in obscure back streets lurk their foreign competitors.

Peter Lee, December 01, 1986

BANKING

Theobald's theme for Citi: skills, not frills

Many have fled the austerity drive of Citicorp's head of investment banking, but he seems unfazed by criticisms that he may have swept out more than mere clutter.

Shale, Tony, December 01, 1986

BANKING

Gruezi Frankfurt!

It was like the meeting of two big and powerful families, the Medici and the Strozzi in Florence, or the Gambinos and the Bonannos in New York. But this was April 22, 1986.

Shirreff, David, July 01, 1986

CAPITAL MARKETS

The LBO craze flourishes amid warnings of disaster

When Euromoney first pointed out the dangers of the leveraged buyout (April 1984) the fashion was new and exciting – too exciting, declared Paul Volcker, who subdued the general enthusiasm for a time, but the fashion came back, with complications explained in full for the first time here.

Thackray, John, February 03, 1986

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