latest stories

DECEMBER 2 2002

Search for strategy

As overcapacity in the banking sector heats up competition even further, banks are seeking new strategies to keep them afloat. Melvyn Westlake looks at some of the models being considered.

Archive

NOVEMBER 2 2002

The Credit Risk 500 gives core information on the bond market that is needed in a tough climate

Archive

NOVEMBER 2 2002

Milan's fashion for finance

Milan has always been a capital of style but it is now being recognised as Italy's financial centre. David Lane reports on the city's banking trends.

Interviews

NOVEMBER 2 2002

President Fox: a man who means business

Vicente Fox, Mexico's president, has been determined to combat corruption in government so he can move ahead with economic improvements. Karina Robinson meets him.

Western Europe

OCTOBER 1 2002

The fight to sell government euro bonds has never been fiercer. The French and Germans are battling it out for benchmark status while other eurozone countries are increasing liquidity and issuance size. Troubled equity markets make it all very attractive to investors.

Analysis & opinion

OCTOBER 1 2002

Through the looking glass into deflation

DeAnne Julius assesses the risk of global deflation as quite high in her keynote speech at The Banker Awards 2002 dinner.

Americas

OCTOBER 1 2002

Time to go

Western Europe

SEPTEMBER 1 2002

Are Dresdner's days numbered?

All signs point to Allianz dismantling the once powerful Dresdner Bank, says Jan F Wagner in Frankfurt.

Team of the month

SEPTEMBER 1 2002

Is Citigroup's Sandy losing focus?

In creating the modern Citigroup, Sandy Weill took the banking industry into a new era. Now beset by troubles on all fronts - Enron and WorldCom fallout, consumer finance allegations and a controversial new management structure - some analysts fear 'the king of capital' may be losing his magic touch.

Archive

SEPTEMBER 1 2002

The Banker Awards 2002

Investment banking

AUGUST 1 2002

Is the PFI about to hit the buffers?

Forget worrying about corporate collapses. The growth of PFI financing is playing havoc with public money. Eventually an Enron-style disaster will be rerun on a sovereign balance sheet.

Regulations

AUGUST 1 2002

Can Basel II be made to work?

Latest developments in the progress of the Basel II Capital Accord have raised concerns by both US and European parties that its complexity will lead to unequal treatment.

Regulations

AUGUST 1 2002

The forces driving bank mergers

Crashing markets and a stalled economic recovery are starting to hit banks, causing problems which will make them vulnerable to acquisition.

Western Europe

JULY 1 2002

Paris aims for European supremacy

Six months after the launch of the euro, the finance markets of Paris are enjoying the success that it has brought. As Helena Frith Powell reports, the French capital has London firmly in its sights.

Investment banking

JULY 1 2002

Spotlight on a shady world

Melvyn Westlake says the legal row between Nomura and CSFB could result in more transparency in the world of credit derivatives.

Best-performing banks

JULY 1 2002

Top 1000 world banks

Archive

JUNE 1 2002

Fortress Cuba?

Investment banking

JUNE 1 2002

Equity derivatives enter the dialogue

Banks are benefiting from an increase in corporate sector demand for alternative ways of raising finance while capital markets are effectively closed.

Regulations

JUNE 1 2002

Time to clean up

Regulators are determined to avoid a repeat of Enron and other scandals. But will the corporate governance measures now being considered make things better or worse? Melvyn Westlake reports on the great corporate clean-up.

latest stories

Search for strategy

The Credit Risk 500 gives core information on the bond market that is needed in a tough climate

Independents' day

Milan's fashion for finance

President Fox: a man who means business

Battle for the benchmark

Through the looking glass into deflation

Time to go

Are Dresdner's days numbered?

Is Citigroup's Sandy losing focus?

The Banker Awards 2002

Is the PFI about to hit the buffers?

Can Basel II be made to work?

The forces driving bank mergers

Paris aims for European supremacy

Spotlight on a shady world

Top 1000 world banks

Fortress Cuba?

Equity derivatives enter the dialogue

Time to clean up