Brighter after bad cheque day

Shaping up for the single currency

Shaping up for the single currency

OTE’s new tranche triggers jealousies

Last November Delta Securities, a broker on the Athens stock exchange, tried to pay the clearing house with bad cheques to the tune of Dr2.6 billion ($95.7 million). In the ensuing crisis the exchange closed for three days – an unprecedented event – while the exchange authorities attempted to assess the extent of the deception. Three Delta executives were charged with fraud and warned not to leave the country, the firm’s assets were frozen and its offices sealed.

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