September 2001

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Argentina stares into the abyss

Little love lost between Mercosur partners

Fraga tries to look on the bright side

Mexico reaps the rewards and pays the price of US ties

Latin 100

Latin 100 2001: Mergers cut risks

People

Citibank: A bank that ruled the world, almost

John Reed, formerly of Citibank: The house that Reed built

Nine Citibankers who went on to great things

Corporate governance

Corporate Governance 2001: New rules of good behaviour

Russia

Putin treads warily on road to reform

The voice of big business

A Russia fit for our children

Battling vested interests to get utilities to perform

Generating income from electricity

Oligarchs still in the driving seat

Looking for national champions

Potato index belies economists’ gloom

An equity growth leader

Bonds are back

Normal corporate ethics vie with graft and gangsterism

Central & Eastern Europe

Acquisition costs rise as buyers race for quality

Hypovereinsbank/Bank Austria: critical mass

Erste Bank: retail leader by organic growth

ING: integration begins at home

SocGen: undaunted by cost of market share

RZB: an early mover targets new markets

KBC: seeking a second home market

Bulgaria fits the Eurobond bill

Philippines

Arroyo faces dirty war on many fronts

Equitable PCI still faces a credibility problem

China

China: The long march to compete post-WTO

Korea

Sale of Seoul Bank poses a quandary

Stealthy law broadens debt burden

Municipal finance

Local and regional issuers bring bond market diversity

Investor profile

Drawing a bead on a Swedish dynasty

SEB seeks European scale

United Arab Emirates

Airline bond is a domestic market breakthrough

Dubai looks towards 2003

Challenges stack up for the banks

Saudi Arabia

Capital markets reforms prefigure wider change

Banks gear up for retail competition

The quest for economic diversification

Arab 100

Arab 100 2001: Solid earnings growth for most Arab banks

Turkey

Turkey’s banks, and its economy, stand on the brink

Bargain basement opens to business

A helping hand in Romania

Country risk

Country risk Sep 2001: Analysts see little sign of sovereign risk contagion

Growth markets analysis

Emerging markets: will ye no come back again?

European Central Bank

Let’s not be beastly to the bankers

The two pillars – another compromise

Just how good is the Fed?

Finance Minister of the Year

Finance minister of the year 2001: Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan

Central bank governor of the year

Central bank governor of the year 2001: Tito Mboweni, governor of the South African Reserve Bank

World Bank/IMF

Could the Bank do its work better?

Answering the critics

Prevention is more complex than cure

US Treasury

Taylor-made policy

Sovereign debt

Burdens that can’t be passed on

Yen bonds

Foreign issuers prove a strong draw in Japan

Global financing: Capital raising poll

Global financing 2001: Issuers shift from equity to debt

Editorial

9/11: Markets braced after terror attack

Front End

Let the people speak

A JPMorgan shake-out

CFSB breaches Chinese walls

Schroders dumps CEO

BondVision: An awful lot of clicking about nothing

Market Monitor

Lending less than meets the eye

Super-capitalism’s cashflow crisis

The amazing lure of floating rate

Bear on the prowl

Emerging markets

Megawati’s calm efficiency

Thaksin hangs on to his job

Sovereign downgrade fails to move markets

One step forward, two back in the regions

Against the tide

The battle for leadership: US versus Europe

Financial Lawyer

Easing the pain through partnership

Flipside

Life, death, loathing and fear in Manila

Supplements

A view from the top

From stability to growth

Slow progress on capital markets

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