- Japan: An embarrassment of riches.
Profits from zaiteku rise by the month at Japanese companies--and so do the illfeelings and embarrassment generated by the earnings from such financial engineering.
- Can America win la guerre?
- Can the lone-star bankers survive the squeeze?
- Caps and options: the dangerous new protection racket.
- Financing the channel tunnel. (column)
- Institute of Foreign Bankers, Japan: Foreign bankers present united front.
Nothing is simple about doing business in Japan. Even the formation of a foreign banks' association--a small and boring administrative detail in most countries--is complicated by sticky political questions.
- Full of Western promise.
- Jumping ship? Leave the passenger list. (column)
- Michael von Clemm: end of a legend.
- Not all advice is Toshi.
- Banco de Chile: Once-in-a-lifetime offer?
"You'll never have another chance like it,' shriek the advertizements depicting Halley's comet. They are not selling telescopes, though, but preferential shares in Chile's biggest once-private bank, the Banco de Chile. The cynics agree: you'll see the dividends, like the comet, once in a lifetime.
- Property financiers seek new avenues.
- Sheik's oil puts the skids on U.S. rescue plan.
- Stock exchange lets foreigners play.
- The future according to Lee Jr. (interview)
- Structured credit: The rise of the structured bond business.
Some people don't know what the "structured' or "engineered' bond business is. Others think the business, after a brief flowering in 1983 and 1984, is withering away. Both groups are in for a surprise.
- The Swiss change their minds.
