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Scandals fraud and losses in the financial markets

Scandals fraud and losses in the financial markets

HSBC is the latest bank to be hit by attempted fraud, which Euromoney was first to report.

Abigail Hofman

Abigail Hofman

We’re here to save the world and we don’t need any questions

May 2008

Inside Investment: Currency disunion

With the euro hitting fresh record highs against the dollar, it must be tempting for European policymakers to crow. However, complacency could lead to crisis.




A decade ago you could not avoid the euro. Every conference organizer and bank was jumping on the events bandwagon in the run-up to the launch of the single currency on January 1 1999. However, as the single currency approaches its 10th year it is hard not to think that this fanfare was fully deserved. The single currency has not only survived, it has prospered. With the euro climbing to new records against the US dollar on an almost daily basis there are doubtless plenty of smug central bankers in Frankfurt.


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