Peter Koh

Recent stories by Peter Koh

• Western Europe: Millennium’s new CEO seeks a fresh start

  Millennium BCP used to be the star of Portuguese banking. But a period of destructive internal rivalries, abortive takeover bids and dubious strategies made the firm a basket case. Can a new chief executive – seen as a safe pair of hands – rebuild the bank’s capital and revitalize its growth?

  Euromoney May 2008

• Exchange competition: It’s a win-win game, for now

  Euromoney May 2008

• Q1 equity-linked deals plummet

  The number of new equity-linked issues in the first quarter of 2008 fell dramatically across all regions in comparison with the same period in 2007.

  Euromoney May 2008

• Alternative trading systems: Crossing comes to Korea

  Euromoney May 2008

• Equity market round up: The month in numbers

  Euromoney May 2008

• Equity market round up: Going up - Middle Eastern ECM volumes

  Euromoney May 2008

• Equity market round up: Going down - Eastern European ECM volumes

  Euromoney May 2008

• London Eating: The bankers from HSBC, they say ‘no!’

  Bankers at HSBC’s Canary Wharf headquarters have issued a damning verdict on their own staff canteen by adding a review of it to the popular London restaurant guide London Eating, giving it an overall score of just 2.5/10.

  Euromoney April 2008

• Equity derivatives: Investors fear structured note counterparty risk

  Investors in equity-linked structured notes are becoming increasingly concerned about counterparty credit risk, and are therefore becoming more discerning when it comes to choosing which institutions to buy their products from, report dealers.

  Euromoney April 2008

• Equity trading: Like a horse and buggy in the Daytona 500

  Euromoney April 2008

• Equity capital markets: Jumbo IPOs stand up to their worst enemy

  With big declines and huge daily swings, stock markets around the world looked even less welcoming to new issuers in March than they had for much of the year, during which time companies fearful of a cold reception had withdrawn or postponed more than $20.5 billion-worth of deals.

  Euromoney April 2008

• Small caps: An end to US exceptionalism

  Euromoney April 2008

• Equity market round up: The month in money

  Euromoney April 2008

• Equity market round up: Move of the month - Deutsche Bank

  Euromoney April 2008

• Commodities: Boom or bubble?

  Commodity prices continue to break records, defying the spectre of slowing growth in the US and the performance of other asset classes. With some commentators attributing the price rises to the billions being poured in by investors, is it boom or bubble? Peter Koh reports.

  Euromoney April 2008

• Equity derivatives: Investors fear structured note counterparty risk

  Investors in equity-linked structured notes are becoming increasingly concerned about counterparty credit risk, and are therefore becoming more discerning when it comes to choosing which institutions to buy their products from, report dealers.

  Published April 2008 euromoney.com

• SG vindicated on Facebook

  The internet campaign to raise €5 billion to save the career of rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel, launched on social networking site Facebook, has got off to a slow start, with only 2,095 members so far having pledged €1 each towards the cause.

  Euromoney March 2008

• Clearing systems: Competition starts clearly

  The main clearing houses in Europe have had a busy few years.

  Euromoney March 2008

• Germany: Mifid highlights size difference

  Since launching in 2007, Chi-X, the pan-European multilateral trading facility run by Nomura’s Instinet, has made notable inroads into the market for trading German stocks, regularly trading more than 15% of the daily turnover of blue-chip companies such as BASF. At the same time, however, Xetra, Deutsche Börse’s order book, has increased its market share of domestic trading to a record 99%.

  Euromoney March 2008

• Market forecasts: Buying times for equities

  Corporate earnings forecasts might still need to fall but the near 20% collapse in global equity markets since their 2007 peaks suggests that the worst might already be almost fully priced in.

  Euromoney March 2008