July 2005
| Euromoney July 2005 Santander is one of the most remarkable stories in modern banking. Even the group's highly-ambitious chairman, Emilio Botín, is amazed at how the bank has grown from a small Spanish domestic bank to a place in the global top 10 in just 20 years. He reveals the strategy that has made Santander what it is today. - Botín: the man and his mission
- Getting back to the Abbey habit
Santander's retail banking specialists' biggest challenge to date will be to turn around the fortunes of Abbey. Can the Spanish bank's model be successfully applied to the highly competitive UK market? - Can Lehman grow and still succeed?
When all around its rivals are spinning off businesses, Lehman Brothers is sticking to a strategy of acquiring rather than relying purely on organic growth. CEO Richard Fuld has exceptional backing inside the firm for this approach. But can the openness and mutual cooperativeness of his managers survive more expansion? Fuld spoke to Euromoney's Antony Currie about Lehman's future. - What Citigroup needs to do next
Citigroup's vision of the ultimate financial company, manufacturing and selling every financial product, is lost. A series of scandals betrayed the fact that the structure Sanford Weill built had reached the limits of its manageability. Charles Prince now has a new plan to put the bank back on track. Will it work?
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With a long history in the region, the most extensive network of any bank and a full suite of financial products, Citigroup is the biggest force in Asian banking. Yet it is still facing challenges. Chris Leahy spoke to Robert Morse, chief executive officer, corporate & investment banking, Citigroup Asia Pacific, about the bank's performance in Asia
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As nominal returns have fallen, investing in hedge funds has become more difficult. Recent high-profile failures in the UK and Asia illustrate that more than ever, it's important to pick the right strategy and the right manager
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Greater competition and increasingly complex customer needs are forcing service providers to reassess their strategies.
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Subordinated debt gives treasurers a new means of raising equity capital
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ABN Amro is handing down its underperforming US high-grade business to wholly owned
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Investors may need more convincing if the inflation-linked market is to take off
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The US firm is committed to breaking into the European debt markets – again
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Issuers are uncertain about the implications of the EU Prospectus Directive
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Germany's deal shows how corporate techniques are firming up government balance sheets
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Whole loan sales will offer a growing funding alternative for mortgage lenders
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Eight out of 10 investors say they have yet to use the heavily marketed trades
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The German exchange aims to take on CME to tap the growing interest in FX as an asset class
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EBS's move reflects growing hedge fund activity in the region
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The tool will track the euro against major trading currencies and provide an important non-central bank benchmark
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Investors' willingness to accept shares in foreign-owned companies could lead to a boom in European activity
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A new book explores how the Florentine dynasty lent money and still went to heaven. Mark Johnson looks at the ways in which Italy's fifteenth-century bankers circumnavigated religious prohibitions to make their margins
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The bank is set to snatch Goldman's crown for the first half of 2005
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Bankers report a material shift in confidence levels among investors
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ECNs have sold themselves by claiming to offer fast, competitive, electronic execution. But research suggests only the electronic claim is true.
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The US firm's business mix is making it more difficult to bring success in the primary markets
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Brokers are looking to counterbalance the effects of exchange consolidation
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Ameritrade stays independent and buys TD Waterhouse instead
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Signs of a revival of investor interest in convertible arbitrage hedge fund strategies as funds spot opportunities in a depressed market
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But competition will get tougher for wealth managers, according to a recent survey
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UK boutique warehouses and bulks up fund managers' troublesome unwanted shares, offering a return within three years
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The proposed removal of a cap on pension funds' foreign holdings could change the shape of Canadian fund management
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Equity markets are geared for a surge in Chinese issues
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Telecoms sector misses out on $390 million investment
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Argentina's bond exchange is finally done but the sovereign continues to face pressure from the World Bank
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Investors keen on domestic market exposure are to be catered for by a new index range
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Venezuela's president has begun to put his anti-capitalist rhetoric into effect
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Boards are faced with a tough decision on a structure to combine the banks' strengths in central and eastern Europe
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Relations between president and prime minister deteriorate
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Cash-rich investors are looking to put their money to work
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The US economy is in a fool's paradise – Europe and Japan are by no means doomed to lag behind it. But none of these rivals can afford to abandon free trade to cope with China's massive growth
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Germany's industrial heartland, the Ruhr, is adapting well to a world after steel and coal. But when the country's top bankers met there in Essen last month they wondered long and hard about the ability of the rest of Germany to cope with economic change