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Top 100 Arab Banks: Waiting for the after-shock

Scavengers and scratchers of value

Top 100 Arab Banks: Waiting for the after-shock

Is he Lehman Brothers' most well-born banker? Ajeya Singh will inherit the title 'Raja of Manda' from his father. That will make him quite possibly the world's only investment banking maharajah.

Making up the rules in Brazil

Scavengers and scratchers of value

Different ways to skin a cat

Next year's IMF/World Bank meeting will be held in Hong Kong, by then three months into Chinese communist rule. What will delegates find: a thriving boom town or a ghost of its former self? Confused local opinion suggests things could go either way. To get a view from the top, Steven Irvine sounded out more than 30 of Hong Kong's tycoons, politicians and bankers, and drew some far-reaching conclusions

Different ways to skin a cat

"If anyone can rescue Liffe, he can." That seems to be the word on Brian Williamson, who in July put his initial reluctance to one side and agreed to become the London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange's first full-time - and salaried - chairman.

Financial crises have a habit of hitting where the world least expects. No-one predicted that disaster would strike Barings in Singapore, the Mexican peso, Daiwa Bank, the copper market, Morgan Grenfell Asset Management ­ to mention only the worst debacles of the past year. So where is next? Euromoney writers identify some possibilities. A crash in credit cards? Gridlock in foreign exchange settlements? A catastrophic loss of confidence in Hong Kong after the handover to China? First, Brian Caplen reports on the results of brainstorming with forecasters and analysts and highlights some dangers ahead

Euromoney lost a great mentor and friend on September 1. Vere Harmsworth, the third Viscount Rothermere, died unexpectedly at 73.