May 2008

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Top stories

The credit crunch heads east: Russian banks prepare for battle

Structured products

Structured products: Keeping it simple

Foreign Exchange

FX poll 2008: FX moves to centre stage

Western Europe

Western Europe: Millennium’s new CEO seeks a fresh start

Russia

Sberbank's Gref aims for glory

Infrastructure

Infrastructure: Build Russia a boom before it breaks down

Commodities

Russian commodities: Giving investors food for thought

Private equity

Private equity: CEE private equity on the fast track

Best companies poll

Best companies in CEE: Turkey rises up the ranks

Kazakhstan

Kazakh banks still queasy after a borrowing binge

Ukraine

Ukraine: As the orange era stalls...The banking revolution grows

Romania

Romania’s rocky road to reform

Cash management debate

Cash management debate: The march of progress

Alternative investments debate

Alternative investments debate: Seeking the new alternatives

Middle East

Saudi: Can a mortgage desert bloom?

South Africa

Crisis? What crisis? South Africa beats against the headwinds

Fixed income poll

Fixed Income research poll 2008: A time to shine for credit research

Foreign exchange debate

FX debate: Testing times in the search for alpha

Asia Pacific

Korea Development Bank: Koreans divided on fate of a national treasure

Online extra: India’s smaller companies go on a buying spree

Credit markets news

PFI: AirTanker decision fuels bond market gloom

Regulation: BoE hands UK banks special liquidity

Leveraged loans: Banks blink first in LBO standoff

Financial institutions: Bank flows return

People moves: RBS slashes real estate and securitization teams

e-trading: New markets bolster IDBs

Credit derivatives: Investors’ hunt for value begins

ECB offers longer-term finance via six-month LTROs

Government indecision slows student loan sale

Credit markets round up: Credit derivative volumes boom

Credit markets round up: Tradeweb deposits

Credit markets round up: CS appoints new syndicate head

Foreign exchange news

Interest rates: Rate jitters stalk market

Indices: Barclays launches vol indices

EBS: Icap goes online

FX: Retail therapy

Foreign exchange market round up: Barclays hires in Asia

Foreign exchange market round up: StanChart gets Lehman trio

Foreign exchange market round up: UniCredit hires in e-commerce

Foreign exchange market round up: Oanda beefs up in Singapore

Equity markets news

Exchange competition: It’s a win-win game, for now

Q1 equity-linked deals plummet

Alternative trading systems: Crossing comes to Korea

Private equity adapts to the new climate

Equity market round up: The month in numbers

Equity market round up: Going up - Middle Eastern ECM volumes

Equity market round up: Going down - Eastern European ECM volumes

Alternative investments news

Shariah compliancy needs transparency

Cash: Hedge fund cash holdings reach highs

Redemptions: Is there a cure for redemption fever?

Emerging markets investment: Former Merrill head joins Duet

AI market round up: Man creates global credit manager

AI market round up: Conifer buys Morgan Stanley unit

AI market round up: 3 Degrees hires ex HSBC Asia head

AI market round up: Inflow into hedge funds slows

AI market round up: Leaving London?

Hedge funds news

Hedge fund leverage: Batten down the hatches

Hedge funds: Data

Asia news

Japan: Tamura pushes for a sovereign wealth fund

Mongolia: Khan Bank mulls fund options

Asia market round up: Wanted: fund managers

Asia market round up: Found: new China CEO for Citi

Latin America news

Banking: US urges financial services development in Latin America

Argentina: Central bank turns counterparty on debt swaps

Mexico: Rising NPL levels cause concern

Energy: Pemex on track for liberalization

Capital markets: Brazilian corporate debt

Chávez watch: veteran communist named as labour minister

Latin America market round up: Advent exits banking assets

Latin America market round up: Brazilian vessel oversubscribed

EEMEA news

Russia: Private equity gets on a roll

Dubai: Transport on track for local-currency funding

African equities: Listing gets bigger and busier

Infrastructure financing: Eurasian Development Bank broadens strategy

Georgia: Sovereign makes impressive Eurobond debut

Saudi Arabia: After tough winter, April blooms with optimism

Emerging Europe: Hard data raises hope of soft landing

Nigeria: Nigerian banks open up in UK

EEMEA market round up: Pepsi develops thirst for Russia

EEMEA market round up: Credit markets reopen for Russians

EEMEA market round up: AfDB issues third rand issue

Market leaders

Investment banks: The loan market’s tipping point

The rise of state-owned banks

BoE: When is a bail-out not a bail-out?

Crunch time for emerging Europe

Death bonds: The perils of sub-prime death

Paraguay’s future hangs in the balance

Online extra: The case for compulsion

Columns

Abigail Hofman

Against the Tide: It’s a suckers’ rally

Inside Investment: Currency disunion

Editors letter: There’s only one lesson to learn from UBS

Front End

It’s fine being fat

Goldman Sachs wins popularity contest

Icma skis for kids

Weber Shandwick: Magical mystery tour

BNP Paribas seeing green

Quotes of the Month

Off the Record

Research Guide

Research guide - FXall handbook: Best practice in foreign exchange markets