February 2006

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Top stories

Japan emerges from the shadows

A new generation embraces M&A

Nikkei heads for 24,000 by 2010… or sooner

Debt is not a dirty word

Funds get activist in Japan

Living in the past; paying with the future

Japan

Funds get activist in Japan

Living in the past; paying with the future

Poll of Polls

Poll of Polls 2005: Merrill climbs back up the poll

Emerging markets

What happens if the black bubble pops?

Deals and innovations of the year

Deals and innovations of the year 2005

Private banking

Citi builds a private investment bank: Damian Kozlowski, global chief executive officer of Citigroup Private Bank

Equity markets

Complex deals will still be flavor of the month

Emerging Europe

Turkey hits the big time

Mezzanine takes off in central Europe

Real estate

No vacancies for foreigners?

Corporate governance

Emerging markets clean up their act

Columns

Japan’s bright prospects

A long, slow grind, not a sudden shock

The four most dangerous words in investing

ECB Watch: The lion that squeaked

Market leaders

Emerging market’s boundaries broken down from desire for local opportunities

Hotspot sale spurs talk of eFX consolidation

China market may soon be a real deal

Time for FoHF to reassess their strategies

LATAM equity markets: A bubble atop a bubble?

No room for complacency on interest rate rises

Debt news

Debt markets: Telefónica’s faulty line

Quality borrowers: Top issuers pay up for dollars

MTNs storm ahead as new structures find favour

People: End of an era, and a new start for René Karsenti

Hybrids: Porsche takes unusual turn to Asian retail

FIG Watch: The man who makes Barclays fluent in finance

DM round-up: FSA takes the covers off

DM round-up: Bright spotlight on HBOS

DM round-up: KfW extends itself

Structured credit news

Securitization hedging: Indices set to deliver European ABS hedge tool

Real estate CDOs: Equity tranches could be next for CRE

Mezzanine ABS CDOs: Rarity pays for Aegis

SC round-up: Nomura polishes Diamond

SC round-up: More RMBS platforms

Foreign exchange news

ETDs: Nybot launches euro index futures and options

Canadian dollar: Correlation story loses the plot

FX market volumes: No sign of a slowdown

FX round-up: Does Hotspot takeover signal consolidation?

FX round-up: Unleashing hell on the FX poll

FX round-up: Bribery... It’s the thought that counts

Fund management news

Asset allocation: Hedge funds in M&A turnabout

Investor activism: Funds stand up to Shell

BofA targets wealthy US families

NASD ruling might catch out hedge funds

Hedge funds: Liquidations up, but so are manager numbers

FM round-up: Alternative investments of the month:

FM round-up: Life and death arbitrage

Equity markets news

IASB rules could curtail sales of complex derivatives

Sukuk: Dubai Ports raises $3.5 billion

Execution rankings: And the best brokerage is…

Derivatives exchanges: Eurex seeks US options partner

ECM round-up: The month in numbers

ECM round-up: Akemashita Omedeto Gozaimasu!

Corporate finance news

Acquisition financing: New weapons in pharma wars

LBOs: Could more mean worse?

Leveraged recapitalizations: Weetabix takes the biscuit

Chapter 11 bankruptcy: Winn-Dixie creditors pushed out

Moody’s grants GMAC stay of execution

CF round-up: Moving on

CF round-up: Spare wing, anyone?

Asia news

New deals, old questions for China's bank investments

Japan: Crisis? Which crisis?

Brewer milks the market in Vietnam

Private equity: Morgan Stanley cements Asia deal

Indian Investment Bank: State alliance

Consolidation takes off in India’s aviation sector

Korea: Lotte lists IPO

M&A: Japan Inc heads overseas

CNOOC keeps buying oil abroad

Capital markets still alive in the Philippines

Asia round-up: Credit Suisse gears up

Asia round-up: Distressed specialist goes into rehab

Latin America news

LATAM Perpetual bonds: Too much of a good thing?

Investment banking: Goldman/Pactual deal is called off

Liability management: Convexity breaks Panama’s bonds

Andean banking: Peru straightens up for international players

Chile: Bachelet’s good start; Marcel can make it happy

LATAM: Foreign banks try to catch remittance flow

Latin America market round-up: Hugo Chávez watch

LATAM round-up: Deutsche’s Latin chief is moving on

EEMEA news

Iraq restructures Saddam debt

CIS: Raiffeisen looks to sell stake in RosUkrEnergo

South African LBO record smashed

Foreign banks rush in to Ukraine

DIFX – one stock, no trades

EEMEA round-up: Bank watch - Lebanon

EEMEA round-up: Bank watch - Romania

EEMEA round-up: Bank watch - UK

Front End

I had that Anshu Jain in the back of my cab

redit uisse: You ’redit here first

Trading blunders: This month, the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Stadium sell-out for Gulf bank IPO

Morgan Stanley’s pantomime

Quotes of the Month

Off the Record