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November 2008

Main

Top stories

Corporate defaults: The LBO zombies set to stalk the market

Investment banking

Nomura’s great leap forward: Will Lehman takeover help fulfil its global ambitions?

The week Wall Street capitulated

Prime brokerage

Prime brokerage: The day the music stopped

Latin America

Redrado fights Argentina’s corner

Cuba’s capitalist evolution: Injecting capitalism into a communist economy

Brazil’s insurance firms feel the squeeze

Costa Rica bank mergers: Safety in numbers

Covered bonds

Pfandbrief: After 200 years, it’s come to this

Cash management

Cash management: Safety first in short-term investment

Emerging Europe

Turkey: Plenty of scope for M&A

Shared services centre debate

Shared service centres debate: The benefits of centralization

Credit markets news

Financials: Lloyds reopens European financial credit sector

Credit opportunity funds: Hedge fund deleveraging kills opportunity funds

Regulation: Banks win greater accounting flexibility

Credit market round up: Fed provides money market liquidity

Credit market round up: Catch up time in corporate land

Credit market round up: Lehman bankers find new homes

Foreign exchange news

Trade processing: A utility from Wall Street

Exchange-traded contracts: Sprecher talks his book

FX round up: The new sub-prime?

FX round up: Fallout at Commerz

Equity markets news

Convertibles get a soaking

OTC equity derivatives: Counterparty risk is big issue for buy side

US structured note issuers remain upbeat

Equity market round up: The month in numbers

Equity market round up: Record breakers

Hedge funds news

Hedge funds: Crisis could be good news for some

Hedge funds: Data

Alternative investments news

Financing funds: Funds fill the finance gap

Private equity funds reinvent themselves (again)

Investment performance: Hedge fund managers will be back

AI market round up: Citadel expands capital business

AI market round up: Italian fin min ruffles feathers

AI market round up: Hedge fund fees come down

Asia news

Australia: Out of pocket in the outback

China: ABC gets bail-out before IPO

Japan: Vulnerable banks seek new capital

Pakistan: Debt default looms, domestic liquidity dries up

Asia market round up: MUFG gets better deal

Asia market round up: HSBC buys Indonesian bank

Asia market round up: Cambodia builds stock exchange

EEMEA news

Ukraine: On the brink of disaster

Russia: Reality bites oligarchs and banks

Gulf states: Less noise from leveraged wealth funds

Nigeria: Oil drives infrastructure in delta

Kazakhstan: Law passed to support banks

EEMEA market round up: Gas ‘Opec’ takes shape

EEMEA market round up: Hungary agrees $25 billion deal

Correction

Latin America news

Investment banking: What next for Merrill?

Argentina goes from bad to worse

Costa Rica: Desperately seeking securities

Private equity’s powder still dry

Mexico: Ortiz condemns unethical bank behaviour

Chavez watch: Resilient despite falling oil prices

Market leaders

Is foreign exchange the new sub-prime?

Bail-out plans: France’s free market gamble

CDS: Panic hits emerging markets

Credit defaults: It’s different this time

European government bonds: Times breed unconventional wisdom

D and QFC: deluded and quixotic financial centres

Why does a business model become untenable overnight?

Brazil battens down the hatches

Credit crunch and Dick Fuld: Forget scapegoats

Columns

Abigail Hofman: The loser list

Inside investment - Obituary: the CPDO, 2006–2008

Bank deleveraging has barely started

Against the tide: From bail-out to recession

Front End

Investment bank bootcamp: Learning on a lamp-post

Former Lehman employee lets loose tirade of obscenities directed at his new Barclays bosses

Cheer up, you haven’t been locked away

The Loan Market Association conference: Put your money where your mouth is

Top 10 reasons to tell your boss you deserve a bonus this year

Put your shirt on it: "Goldman Sucks", "HSBG" (Highly Suspicious Banking Group), "Merrilly Lynched – where we’re proud of our bull"

Quotes of the month

Off the record