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Speech by the governor of the Bank of Japan

The governor of the state bank of Pakistan looks at why Pakistan fell behind the east Asian tigers

Remarks by Dr Y V Reddy, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the release of the India Development Report 2004-05

Steven Phan, managing director and head of fund-linked trading and structuring at Merrill Lynch in London, has left the firm. Phan could not be reached and it could not be immediately determined if he has surfaced elsewhere in the market. Chris Vogelgesang, head of equity-linked trading in London, declined comment.

James Wolfensohn, appointed to the Presidency of the World Bank by President Clinton in 1995, made the Bank the premier global lobby for the world's poor.

Investors and analysts expressed all-round optimism about emerging markets at Emerging Market Traders' Association Winter Forum in London yesterday.

ABN AMRO in Frankfurt has added an analyst in covered bond research, bringing the team to three.

ABN AMRO, Fortis Group or ING Group could launch the inaugural triple-A structured covered bond in The Netherlands this year, and a second mortgage lender could follow before the year is out, predict structured finance analysts across Europe.

Foreign central bank buying of corporates has hit a record high and fixed-income officials see the moves as a signal of the small but growing threat to Treasuries as the natural home for deep-pocketed central bank investors.

Evergreen Investments is eyeing commercial mortgage-backed securities as well as some individual corporate names for additional investments, said Jim Dulin, v.p. and director of fixed-income trading in Charlotte, N.C.