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Leaving the past behind - Speeding along a bumpy road

Dynamic exporters, versatile deal-makers, innovative marketers, Turkey has some impressive smaller companies. But they are starved of capital. With interest rates crippling and maturities short, they have financed growth from reserves. Now, as their need for capital grows, they need new options. Metin Munir reports on the problems and opportunities of Turkey's corporate sector, profiles some of its most promising companies and meets the men who want to finance its growth

February 01, 1998

The rise and rise of the risk manager

First he sat in the back seat, then he had his foot on the brake, now he's got one hand on the steering wheel! Is there no end to the risk manager's advancement into every aspect of risk-taking in a financial firm? Next he'll be right there in the driving seat, with traders, salesmen, corporate financiers and chief financial officers doing his bidding. So, is the risk manager turning into something else? By David Shirreff

February 01, 1998

Extended advising poll, Extended overall results, Extended trading poll, Extended underwriting poll

Extended advising poll

January 01, 1998

Opinion

Emerging banks: threat of systemic collapse?

Economic growth in several major east Asian, Latin American and eastern European economies will halt in 1998. Emerging market banks' $550 billion of non-performing loans (probably well above $600 billion if unofficial estimates are correct) may cause a rash of failures or even systemic financial crisis in some countries. Korea, China and Slovakia are among the most vulnerable.

January 01, 1998

Pakistan: Problems paying power bills

Pakistan's power privatization programme was once the jewel in the crown of a country whose private sector was generally underdeveloped and poorly performing.

January 01, 1998

Ambrosiano makes a splash in calm waters

Issuer: Ambroveneto International Bank

January 01, 1998

Top fifty under forty: Euromoney's rising stars

They flyfish, birdwatch, trek and mountain climb. They have brought us Bowie bonds and Brady bonds. They've worked on privatizations and flotations. They head top banks, have founded their own firms, introduced new markets and strengthened fragile emerging economies. Meet Euromoney's top fifty financial whizzkids from around the world - and take note. They are impressive now, but their peers believe they are destined for even greater things

January 01, 1998

Poll of polls 1997: Battling to join the elite

Euromoney's definitive annual guide to winners and losers in the world's capital markets charts the struggle to join the select group of top-flight firms. But a number of banks have failed to boost their position through acquisitions, and some of the most improved firms are those that have grown organically. A synthesis of all the polls run in the magazine in 1997, the poll evaluates underwriting, trading and advisory activities over the past year. By Rebecca Dobson.

January 01, 1998

Extended advising poll

January 01, 1998

Assessing the damage: Uncertain times in the currency markets

The crisis in Asia is changing perceptions about almost every currency, and no-one is certain what will happen next. Suzanne Miller reports on uncertain times in the currency markets.

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Derivatives: Bonn wins right to swap

Wanted: swap dealers to work for department seven of the federal finance ministry in Bonn. Why? Because in November, the budget committee voted to allow the government to write interest rate swaps on its debt.

January 01, 1998

BANKING

Corporate Restructuring: Spin-offs in a spin

The spin-off has been heralded as the tool of the future - the means to prepare sprawling European companies for the next century. But is it as successful as investment bankers and their clients would have us believe? Not according to Paul Gibbs, an equity analyst at JP Morgan in London.

January 01, 1998

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