Euromoney’s 2012 FX survey results

Euromoney’s 2012 FX survey results

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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?

January 1998

Poll of polls 1997: Battling to join the elite


Euromoney's definitive annual guide to winners and losers in the world's capital markets charts the struggle to join the select group of top-flight firms. But a number of banks have failed to boost their position through acquisitions, and some of the most improved firms are those that have grown organically. A synthesis of all the polls run in the magazine in 1997, the poll evaluates underwriting, trading and advisory activities over the past year. By Rebecca Dobson.


Poll of Polls: Overall results
Poll of polls: Underwriting
Poll of polls: Trading
Poll of polls: Advising
Poll of Polls: Methodology

The likes of SBC Warburg Dillon Read, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Salomon Smith Barney may be disappointed in this year's poll of polls. Their performance is not much better than in past years, despite their headline mergers. The acquisition of BZW's equity and M&A interests from Barclays has hardly improved Credit Suisse First Boston's scores either. Instead, the banks to watch include Commerzbank, Paribas and ABN Amro, a steady climber in most of the surveys we published in 1997.

Most significant changes in this year's poll of polls take place below...


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