The money network:

The money network:

Why crowdfunding threatens traditional bank lending

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Up to 40% of China’s $1.7 trillion LGFV loans are at high risk of default. What’s a panicking Beijing to do?

June 1998

Hans-Joerg Rudloff, Chairman of the executive committee, Barclays Capital



Hans-Joerg Rudloff, doyen of the Euromarket, has positioned himself perfectly for next year's skyburst of activity in euro debt financing.

He's signed up from August 1 as executive chairman of Barclays Capital, which shuns equity trading and underwriting but is world number one in loan syndication and has been climbing the bond bookrunners' league table.

Rudloff, born in Cologne in 1940 and educated in Switzerland, spent 10 years in the 1970s at Kidder Peabody in Geneva before being hired by Credit Suisse First Boston to head debt syndication. In 1982 he nearly completed his greatest syndication: a £27,000 deal to hire an elephant from Regent's Park zoo on which his boss Michael Von Clemm would ride through...


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