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EU formally opens membership talks with Turkey

London-based BlueCrest Capital Management has hired an equity derivatives trader for a volatility arbitrage venture.

Lehman's European co-head of equity sales is set to transfer to New York.

Outgoing IDB president, Enrique V. Iglesias, offers an assessment of the Bank's performance and reflects on Latin America's uneven progress

China's fund managers are preparing to plunge into the new enterprise annuities business, which promises billions of dollars in assets under management. But it is going to be a long wait before they taste profits, says Aradhna Dayal.

Toll's hostile bid for Patrick Corp puts in the ring some of the most colourful and forthright characters on the Australian corporate scene. Yet behind the personal agendas and the vitriol is a strategy that makes good business sense. Giles Parkinson reports

China's private sector is just that—extremely private. While it's big, and it's growing, foreign private equity firms and investment banks seem at a loss how best to find the future champions. Elliot Wilson and Joanne Gray report on a sector that is developing away from prying eyes.

Singapore's three banks are struggling with international competition in their own backyard. They need to seek out new lines of business and streamline their capital bases in order to impress investors. And they will have to take their overseas expansion more seriously. Richard Morrow reports.

Singapore's Temasek has made clear its ambitions in regional banking. So far it has been content with minority investments, but one sizeable acquisition would make its dreams a reality, writes Chris Leahy.

No-frills carriers, backed by private equity consortia and domestic conglomerates, are rocking India's staid old airline duopoly, with billion-dollar orders for hundreds of new aircraft. But industry experts warn of too much, too soon. With airport infrastructure still mired in the Stone Age, many fret that foreign banks have been too hasty in offering generous rates on new and leased planes to upstart carriers, many of which could be taken over or liquidated even before they take off. Elliot Wilson reports.

Hong Kong Disney Land finally opened its gates in September. But at what cost to unfortunate parents and Hong Kong?

The year-to-date league tables on G3 international bonds, equity capital markets and domestic currency debt in some of the major Asia markets.