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March 2002

Main

Cover Story

Enronitis, witch-hunts and financial hypochondria

Consolidation threatens securitization

Regulatory point-scoring

Who governs the corporates?

Emerging market debt

Argentina: Sovereign advisory elite in the shade

Portugal

Portuguese banking: The party is over

Contingent liabilities

The sting in the tail of the good times

Derivatives

Credit risk and its management raise a paradox

Convertibles

Market faces up to troubled calm after a perfect storm

Asset management

Asset management: UBS gets a facelift

Exchanges and securities settlement

When shareholder value conflicts with shareholder utility

Germany

Landesbanken look to a new life

Technology

The big spenders learn to budget

Brazil

An uncertain role on centre stage

Mexico

Looking forward to US recovery but failing to reform

Telecoms

Local operators drive the wireless revolution forward

Bond markets

Latin debt is a safe haven for investors

India

Privatization plans bump along apace

Kuwait

NBK faces greater competition from a new banking breed

Roundtable

When clients start to call the shots

Foreign Exchange

Forexster throws down client-to-client patent challenge

Continuous linked settlement at last

Country risk

Country risk March 2002: Economists predict a strong rebound but not until 2003

Editorial

Why excuses hamper explanations

Front End

Chammah blow is Mack setback

Portugal’s Cassandra

Sell-side hit again

Komansky calls time

Turkish IPO draws

Market Monitor

Is CP heading for a credit crunch?

A lot of money to get nowhere

Botín’s family favourites rise on their merits

Number crunchers turn positive on telecoms

MarketAxess predicts profitability in 2002

Bang goes Tyco’s reputation

Emerging markets

Wimm Bill Dann serves an ace in juice game

Banks ‘shocked’ by $250 million

ING takes a long view of regional expansion

It’s time to smile and ask once again

Chávez devalues under pressure

Against the tide

Profit from the gradual recovery

Financial Lawyer

Europe lags US in business-method patents

People

Sir David Tweedie

John McCallum

Deal Insider

Napocor fails to electrify the market