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The regional winners

Over the past year, Roberto De Ocampo has more than vindicated his award of 1995's Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year. He goes from strength to strength, as part of a team under President Fidel Ramos that has brought the Philippines from being the sick man of Asia to become one of its star performers.

September 01, 1996

Gary Perlin, treasurer of the World Bank: Perlin switches the focus

On his first day as treasurer of the World Bank March 1 this year Gary Perlin was winding up a trip to China, the bank's biggest borrower. By contrast, the first overseas trip of his predecessor Jessica Einhorn (now promoted to managing director) was to Japan, the biggest investor in the bank's bonds.

Peter Lee, September 01, 1996

Tim von Halle

Managing director and head of fixed-income trading and sales, West Merchant Bank Limited

September 01, 1996

CAPITAL MARKETS

Interview: Edson Mitchell's game plan

Edson Mitchell's bold attempt to turn Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG) into a world-beating bond house has made headlines in the past year. He has employed about 500 new staff - including many from his old firm, Merrill Lynch - in little more than 12 months. But until now Mitchell has shied away from talking publicly about his plans. Here, for the first time, he reveals what his aims are - and how he's going about achieving them. Mitchell spoke to Garry Evans

September 01, 1996

Japan: The teacher who invested $15 billion

The world's big borrowers have found a new source of super-cheap funding. In the past year, a group of small, hitherto almost unheard of Japanese institutions most famously the Teachers' Pension Fund have bought as much as $100 billion of structured Euro-MTNs. So desperate are these investors for certain types of securities that a top-rated borrower can raise funds via a private placement in Japan for as little as Libor minus 60 basis points. Garry Evans explains how

September 01, 1996

Facing up to the foreigners

The new dawn in South Africa is not an unmixed blessing for its banks. They now have to face foreign competitors muscling in on a sector they previously monopolized. But with their strong networks and increasing overseas resources, local banks are finding that alliances with foreign institutions can be mutually beneficial. Bruce Cameron reports

September 01, 1996

Awards

FINANCE MINISTER OF THE YEAR 1996 - Rubin: quietly getting things done

Robert Rubin, secretary of the US treasury, has faced tough situations and made tough decisions. In a remarkably short time, he dealt with the Mexico crisis and put the dollar back on course, demonstrating a rare grasp of both domestic politics and global markets. By Katharine Morton

September 01, 1996

Survival of the fittest

Stock exchanges all over Europe are junking floor trading for electronic trading. Power is being handed to the intermediaries, while bourses battle over price, efficiency and liquidity. Laura Covill considers which exchanges are likely to survive beyond 2000

August 01, 1996

Towards a machine for working in

Bank buildings were once designed to convey solidity and reliability. Then they went through a phase of gigantism. Now the emphasis is on user-friendliness and functionality. But there are still hints here and there of folies de grandeur. Stephanie Cooke reports

August 01, 1996

INTERSEC 250 TABLE

August 01, 1996

Greed is good for gekkos

Edited by Brian Caplen

August 01, 1996

Towards a tax-neutral pooling scheme

Moves to develop a tax-neutral pension fund pooling scheme should help propel UK fund management to the centre of the international stage. By Christopher Stoakes

August 01, 1996

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