Markets 1997: What’s ahead

A SUPPLEMENT TO EUROMONEY – MARKET 1997

  Equity boom or bust?

Bankers say it’s going to be a busy year for new issues. Peter Lee asks whether they will be able to get through without a bottleneck, or worse, an overheated market

Building a euro market

The euro will seriously change the way Europe’s capital market works. Borrowers have already issued bonds which convert into euros. Euromoney looks at this and other issues on market players’ minds.

By Peter Lee

Trends

Here’s what to expect: a liquid loan market, structured deals and credit derivatives, securitization, merger and acquisition fever, rapid privatization and more MTN borrowers

Deals of 1996

Euromoney looks at the most impressive deals of last year

Who moved where

First the Chemical Chase merger, then Deutsche Morgan Grenfell’s staff shopping spree, and expansion at a number of investment banks.