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As Pakistan finalises a $7.6 billion bailout from the IMF, the country’s former prime minister says leadership and wisdom is required to help the globalized financial markets survive the financial crisis.
Published November 2008 euromoney.com
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Mulyani addresses Indonesia's currency troubles, the rumours that she tended her resignation over new developments in the Bakrie saga and the question of her own political ambitions
Published November 2008 euromoney.com
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“We don’t want people to not trust our efforts to safeguard the currency and the economy”
Published November 2008 euromoney.com
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“This is an interesting case of testing the principle of a conflict of interest”
Published November 2008 euromoney.com
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Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Governments worldwide have moved to recapitalize banks. But the amounts injected will only be sufficient to avert a great depression; they are not enough to sustain lending and avert a global recession.
Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Excuse the cliché, but there is a silver lining in the cloud hanging over hedge funds. Many are destined to shut down. But that means more opportunity for those that survive, argues Neil Wilson.
Euromoney November 2008
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Mid-caps starved of operational and growth capital have new lenders.
Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Corporate FX losses are already running into billions. The problem, as the dollar’s rally continues, could be endemic.
Euromoney November 2008
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With CDS prices at unprecedented levels, the crisis shows no sign of abating.
Euromoney November 2008
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Euromoney November 2008
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Nomura has named the executive committee for the acquired business in Europe; as was expected the majority of front office staff are ex-Lehman Brothers bankers taking up similar roles to those they held around Europe before the deal, while the back office management team tend to be from Nomura.
Euromoney November 2008
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Government intervention shows that there is real cause for concern.
Euromoney November 2008
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A wave of corporate defaults will follow the onset of a vicious global recession as sure as night follows day. But this time, that night will see zombie companies stagger the earth, dragging their uncovenanted leverage multiples behind them. Louise Bowman explains.
Euromoney November 2008
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The acquisition of the European and Asian arms of Lehman Brothers means that the Japanese firm is now the world’s largest independent investment bank. The deal shocked many who had expected a western buy-out. Lawrence White speaks to Takumi Shibata and Sadeq Sayeed, the architects of the deal.
Euromoney November 2008
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The government bail out packages unveiled across developed countries last month may have prevented the collapse of a host of banks with more toxic assets than equity. Bank deleveraging has barely started
Euromoney November 2008
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In October the credit crunch finally devastated global equity markets as investor panic threatened to bring down all but the very strongest banks. Alex Chambers was pounding the sidewalks of New York just as the crisis entered its most tumultuous period and perhaps its denouement.
Euromoney November 2008
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It will have 10 million customers, which is roughly half of Australia’s population. Crucially, it will have Westpac’s AA rating, rather than St George’s A. At the time of the merger announcement, it was envisaged as having a combined market capitalization of A$66 billion ($477 billion), although an imp
Euromoney October 2008
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Euromoney October 2008
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Indian bank suffers from loss of confidence as crisis spreads beyond the US and Europe.
Euromoney October 2008
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Unlike the country’s politicians, Pakistan’s leading industrialists rarely expose themselves to domestic and foreign media attention. Mian Mansha says he simply prefers to stay away from the press wherever possible, and let his business record do the talking.
Euromoney October 2008
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Have the big Japanese banks been over-cautious about buying stakes in troubled western peers?
Euromoney October 2008