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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.

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Banking: US urges financial services development in Latin America
"The countries of Latin America need to look for opportunities to make credit and mortgages more readily available" Anna Cabral, US Treasury

Banking: US urges financial services development in Latin America

May 2008

Senior officials at the US Treasury are urging Latin American countries to pursue policies that will help grow their mortgage markets, despite the sub-prime woes of the US.

Kazakh banks still queasy after a borrowing binge

May 2008

Kazakhstan’s banks have built up onerous debt repayments after a splurge of Eurobond issuance. Are they facing a liquidity crunch?

Structured products: Keeping it simple

May 2008

Investment banks are rushing to offer systematic payoffs and smart underlyings as structured notes, partly in response to investors’ growing mistrust of more complex products. But is replicating hedge fund strategies in note form as simple as they are trying to make out?

HSBC calls in police for €90 million fraud investigation

April 2008

HSBC is the latest bank to be hit by attempted fraud. According to sources, police were called in to the Canary Wharf head office to remove two operations staff members on Friday April 25.

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