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Want to know who your boss will be in five years time? These are Euromoney's picks for the top 50 financial leaders aged 40 and under from around the world. They are already in key positions in leading organizations around the world, and their peers and mentors have marked them out for even greater things. Together they represent a broad church - some coming from financial families but proving their own worth, others making their way up from the bottom. We start with our top 10; the rest are split up according to geographical region.

Edited by Steven Irvine

Chairman, Salomon Brothers International

The flotation of Deutsche Telekom was fenced by a thicket of regulations and employed more lawyers than syndicate staff. So how did Deutsche Morgan Grenfell get away with breaking so many of its own rules? And did the three global coordinators – DMG, Dresdner Bank and Goldman Sachs – allow themselves to be manipulated by a greedy issuer? None of this bodes well for Telekom 2. Laura Covill reports

Ecuador's populist new president came to power on a wave of dissatisfaction with the status quo. He has already developed a reputation for eccentricity, not least for economic policies that threaten to alienate the international community. There is also worrying evidence of cronyism and an authoritarian approach to foreign investors. By Norman Peagam

Robert Mohamed; Robert Gray; Joan Beck;

Japan's bacteria-free banking; Dresdner swoops to conquer; Y2K cost; Josef Ackermann; Boris Yeltsin; Winter dancer; Cavallo controversy

Throughout Asia, borrowers are exploring new ways of financing the region's huge infrastructure needs. But fierce competition is keeping margins down for the banks on the bandwagon. Norman Peagam reports

by David Roche

Cover and the capital markets

Big Bang: Ten years on; Turkey: No way to run a market