June 2009

Main

Top stories

Barclays: The bank that lived

Asset management

Asset management: Larry Fink puts BlackRock centre stage

Investment banking

Ken Griffin: Citadel rewires for Wall Street

Banking

Banks begin great financial retrenchment

Euromoney 40th Anniversary Section

Shaping the future of finance: The firms - The people - The leaders

North America

Can Canada’s banks seize their chance?

Debt market polls

Best borrowers and Fixed income research polls 2009: How to be a good borrower

Best borrower poll 2009: Finanzagentur wins new borrower poll

Best primary debt house poll 2009

Best fixed income research house poll 2009

Distressed debts

Distressed debt buyback bargains prove elusive

Asia Pacific

Japan’s banks open lending taps

Emerging Europe

Turkey’s banks in equity market rally

Western Europe

Private sector: The private side of Portugal

Cash management

Cash management: The battle to retain business

Middle East debate

Middle East debate: A bright future for the Gulf’s wealth managers

Lebanon

Lebanon shrugs off the global crisis

Banking news

Bank capital: US banks capitalize on stress test results

UBS begins fightback in investment banking

Banks abandon proprietary trading

Barclays Capital builds European equities

Capital markets: Standard Chartered powers on wholesale

Belgium: Write-down puts KBC into loss

Private banking: Julius Baer splits businesses

Markets news

Monetary policy: ECB gets bang for 60 billion bucks

Restructuring: Lenders rediscover their defensive side

Foreign Exchange: Yen moves centre stage

Investment: Parker launches investable FX indices

Rouble still held back by post-trade issues

FX poll dinner: I don’t want to go to Chelsea

At the Euromoney forex forum: Crisis? What crisis?

Equity markets: Research revived as a selling point

Tradeweb eyes derivatives boost

Asia news

Primus Financial Holdings: Morse signals grand plans for post-Citi bank

Covered bonds: Kookmin has good news for Asia bond market

Alternative investments: NZ managers lead hedge fund performance

Latin America news

Precatorios: Brazil faces public funds default

Central America: El Salvador taps IDB

Investment banking: Quigley stresses Bank of America’s commitment to Latin America

Latin American private equity: Rate fall favours venture capital

EEMEA news

Kazakhstan: Marchenko maintains a sunnier economic outlook

Private equity turns to Iraq

Sovereign bonds: Nomura’s Gulf samurai

Debt capital markets: Sovereign appetite revives

Private equity: Abraaj leads Gulf buyouts

Single currency: UAE pulls out of currency union

Market leaders

Executive pay: To cap or not to cap?

Emerging market equities: Don’t believe the hype

German banks get stressed out

Asia’s local-currency boom is a Chinese story

Structured finance: Buyers rediscover their appetite for ABS

Raters placed on negative watch

Fiscal policy: Time for a new economic philosophy

Columns

Abigail Hofman: Underemployment

Against the tide: The stock and flow of economic recovery

Inside investment: Quantitative easing - Kill or cure?

Blame bankers, not the model

Front End

Badfellas: The credit crunch movie

US police drama Law and Order: Arresting advice

Sarabande: A novel by Marcus Fedder, formerly of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Toronto Dominion Bank

BTIG: Warm hearts on Wall Street

A Bloomberg list with a theme

Quotes of the month

Off the record

Research Guide

The 2009 guide to SEPA: Staying focused