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February 2007

Main

Top stories

The Champions League of investment banking:

Which bank CEOs deliver the best returns for shareholders?

Is the banking boom sustainable?

Islamic Finance

Islamic finance awards 2007: Pushing beyond the boundaries

Banks take the next step in Islamic finance structures

Arab 100: Oil keeps recovery in Arab banking on track

Debates

Hedge fund activism debate: The real face of active investing?

FX debate (part two of two): The changing face of overlay

Banking

The Baudouin Prot interview: Prot plots a global path for BNP Paribas

Greek banking: Clash of the titans

Deals of the year

Deals of the year 2006: Six deals that changed the market

Debt poll of polls

Debt poll of polls 2007: Customer votes reveal the new big three

Asia Pacific

Japan: Change is coming – but not in a rush

No unfriendly M&A please, we’re Japanese

Hedge funds

Unbundling: Research à la carte

Structured finance news and analysis

German real estate: French REIT buyer torpedoes German CMBS deal

Credit derivatives: Institutionals dominate revitalized CDPC sector

Batten down the hatches in US mortgages

Structured finance market round up: Top marks for UK retailer M&S

Structured finance market round up: Credit opportunity fund – Sign of the times

Structured finance market round up: Market moves

Debt markets news and analysis

Hybrids: European supply outlook hinges on M&A

Credit outlook: Analysts turn their clocks back

SocGen realigns to foster customer satisfaction

Debt market round up: Kamlani promoted at UBS

Debt market round up: Bright withdraws HBOS claim

Debt market round up: Whitman made Deutsche treasurer

Derivative markets news and analysis

DerivativesMarkets: Swaps sizzle on call for Danish ALM change

DerivativesMarkets: Dutch giants: Less long end, more inflation demand?

Foreign Exchange news and analysis

Trading platforms: CMC postpones float to 2008

Acquisition: Currenex comes back to life for State Street

Market aggregators: Pendulum swings away from multibank platforms

Trading volumes: London up, New York down

FX market round up: Ritossa’s empire expands

FX market round up: Saxo launches global challenge

FX market round up: Veteran broker back to broking

Equity markets news

Short-selling: Equity investors seek alpha through 130/30

Real estate: Is the UK already over-Reited?

Why convertible bonds have been a smash hit in the US

Interview: Daniel Bouton for NYSE/Euronext

Equity market round up: A worrying month in numbers

Equity market round up: New year, new global index family

Alternative investments news

Hedge funds turn to cash management

Flow of funds: Multi-strategy funds are losing their lustre

Fund restructuring: What’s going on at Ritchie Capital?

Asset valuation: Are there enough checks and balances?

Cabezon Capital: Taking a Bretton Woods II approach

AI market round up: Former Pirates join FrontFour Capital

AI market round up: New MD at Millennium

AI market round up: Bad year for short-sellers?

AI market round up: And in this month’s classified ads....

Asia news

Japan's algorithmic trading: Dark Age to dark side

Independent research comes to Japan

Optimism reigns in the Asian stock markets

Asia market round up: China’s hot...

Asia market round up: ...Vietnam’s hotter

Latin America news

Liability management: A step too far

Why Latin America is missing out on the inflows

Peru gets a Fannie Mae lookalike

Asian investors and Latin perps issuers get back into bed

Borrower profile: Maxcom starts new phase of growth

Latin America market round up: Hugo Chávez watch

Latin America market round up: Ecuador on the brink

Latin America market round up: Private lending steps in

EEMEA news and analysis

Iranian banking: American squeeze on Iran presses on London

Exchanges: Balkan bourse M&A activity hots ups

DCM: Turkey bonds sink in secondary market

SE Europe: Albania looks to next steps

Debt buyback: Nigeria paves way to clear London Club debt

EEMEA market round up: RBC arranges rouble bonds

EEMEA market round up: Russian securitization on the rise

EEMEA market round up: Lasky joins RenCap

Book review

Book review: A CDS route to weighing up sovereign debt defaults

Market leaders

HSBC’s conglomerate discount

Off-key notes in Paris’s chanson d’amour

Regulatory arbitrage: Let the games begin

Let’s not be beastly to the hedge fund activists

Re-rating: The price of a platform

Property derivatives: Bad news is good news

Where to make money in Latin America

Japanese equity and real estate: Long taxi to a slow takeoff

Columns

US Treasury actions leave more questions than answers

Against the tide: Sweet or sour in the Year of the Pig?

Inside Investment: The strange case of volatility

ECB Watch: Following in grandmother’s footsteps, the market keeps behind the curve

Front End

Maxed Out: Hunting down the loan sharks

IMF offers extra-special drawing rights

For FICC’s sake!

iPod index takes a byte out of the Big Mac

Feast not famine in forex

What was that about ceteris paribus?

Quotes of the month

Off the Record

The investment banking Champions League: The industry's leading firms

Goldman Sachs

Morgan Stanley

JPMorgan

Citigroup

The Champions League of investment banking: UBS

The Champions League of investment banking: Credit Suisse

Merrill Lynch

The Champions League of investment banking: Barclays Capital

Deutsche Bank

HSBC

Lehman Brothers

The Champions League of investment banking: BNP Paribas

Bear Stearns

Societe Generale

ABN Amro

RBS