Lativa - below the radar screen

Lativa – below the radar screen

Headline: Lativa – below the radar screen Source: Euromoney Date: May 2000 Latvia is small. Latvia is very small. Latvia is so tiny, in fact, that you may have trouble getting a price for the Latvian Eurobond or Hansabank, the largest bank in the Baltics and number one equity issue on the Riga […]

Headline: Lativa – below the radar screen
Source: Euromoney
Date: May 2000

Latvia is small. Latvia is very small. Latvia is so tiny, in fact, that you may have trouble getting a price for the Latvian Eurobond or Hansabank, the largest bank in the Baltics and number one equity issue on the Riga stock exchange. If you ring up the London switchboard of any mega-global-super bank claiming to make a market in everything from options on timber futures to weather derivatives for Lesotho, and then ask for the Latvian desk, after a few minutes on hold you’ll wind up speaking to PR.

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