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Malaysia is proving to be a shrewd player in the international financial markets. By all the rules of the game, the political and financial scandals of the past year, as well as the bleak outlook of the economy, should have left the country paying over the odds for its new borrowings.

?QUE? LEND MONEY TO A RIVAL BANK?

THE INSIDER TRADER'S GLOBAL GUIDE

PARALLEL BANKING BEATS BARTER

KEEFE TAKES ON THE BIG LEAGUE

LEVERAGED FUNDING As part of the total package for its $4.35 billion acquisition of Sperry Corp, the Burroughs Corp plans to raise $250 million of capital via an issue of money market preferred stock.

TRUST -- FOR A PREFERRED SHARE

HOW TO IMPRESS A JAPANESE FIRM

UNHITCH THE TRACTOR, SUNSHINE

THE THRIVING LBO Since Houdaille Industries went private in 1979 in the first major leveraged buyout (LBO) of a public company, the LBO has become a standard financing tool. At a time when few LBOs ever passed the $100 million mark, the $355 million Houdaille Industries deal marked the origin of a new market. The LBO business has prospered, perhaps beyond even its founder's wildest dreams. The total market has grown from $2.9 billion in 1981 to $16.7 billion in 1985. And, last year, Beatrice Co was taken private by the LBO specialist firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, in a record transaction totalling $6.2 billion.

SPACE RACE FOR ALBERT FRERE

Beware the dirty diggers | Canada grapples on the border | En France on va tout privatiser | Japan prepares for a takeover splurge | Leveraged funding | The city spins with merger mania | The thriving LBO | To focus is to succeed | U.S. megamergers on the wane