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December 2012

Main

Top stories

Investment banking: The upside of downsizing

Capital markets

Banks look for partners in Europe’s equity dating game

Regulation

Basle III on the brink?

Investment banking

Time for Citi to deliver in Asia

Latin America

Latin America: Credit Suisse's Olympio fights usurpers to his kingdom

Colombians eye central America

Italy

Inside the €18 billion Italian job

Retail banking

Retail banks: Metro Bank branches out

Middle East

Qatar looks for gaps and tries to fill them

Africa

Angola’s rulers mull over their options

Market leaders

Pressure grows on Barclays to shrink investment bank

Regulatory hardball on money market fund reform

Real estate: Dubai returns to exuberance

Balance sheets: Making CoCos popular

Debt capital markets: Halting Asia’s bond boom

Banking news

Investment banking: Shareholders welcome new UBS

Reporting standards: Investors demand enhanced disclosures

US: Financials M&A on hold despite Stifel deal

Markets news

High yield: Get smart to beat the tourists in high yield

Private equity: Alternative firms swoop on periphery assets

Covered bonds: Investors pile into Irish mortgages as BoI returns

US Treasury exemption does not mean FX market is out of regulatory woods

Asia news

Hong Kong equities: Cornerstones of an ailing market

Asia: tentative hopes for IPO revival

Public policy: South Korea faces up to global threats

Latin America news

Sovereign debt: Argentina running out of legal road

Private equity: Local drive to PE threatens offshore funds

Brazil: Cielo asks how low can DCM yields go?

EEMEA news

Sovereign wealth funds: Qatar seals its kingmaker role in Xstrata deal

Emerging Europe: Fitch upgrades Turkey to BBB-

Prokhorov takes control of Renaissance Capital

Debt capital markets: Poland taps Japanese demand for EM paper

Columns

UBS’s axe wielding could prove game changer

Dougan undermined by underwhelming Credit Suisse

MS’s Kelleher ascends the throne as Taubman exits

What’s going on at Renaissance Capital?

Dawning of the age of bank-stock analysts

Kian Abouhossein: Stuck with UBS

Inside investment: A Christmas Carol fit for a King

Against the tide: A year of economic porridge

Front End

Barclays’ fat finger email

UK deep throats sing like canaries

Il Monte: Big things come to those who wait

Sandbags at dawn

Kweku Adoboli: What do YOU understand an asset to be?

Quotes of the month

Off the record

Research Guide

The 2012 guide to Brazil