Financial services

Collusion in the stockmarket

Now that its price-fixing scandal has been laid to rest, has Nasdaq become a more efficient equity market?0

BOND ISSUERS

Europe’s lovesick bankers

European financial-service firms will be wooing each other in earnest this year. Too many will enter bad marriages0

American banks: The January effect

Peregrine Investments: Talons pulled

Demutualisation in Germany: Inconceivable?

Business last year

The World in 1998: City of the rising sun

The next stage on from Big Bang: more City crooks in the dock, building societies going public and Japanese brokers snapping up the cream of Oxbridge talent. Scared yet?0

Japan makes a stand, sort of

East Asia will not overcome its financial difficulties without the help of Japan. In three articles, we look at Japan’s attempt to revive its own economy, the hopes it has dashed among its neighbours, and the collapse of the main opposition party at home0

Insurance mergers in Europe: Back to the smoke-filled rooms

Is Europe really embracing Anglo-Saxon capitalism? A French takeover battle suggests otherwise0

Dresdner Bank: Lost leader

Policing the moneymen

Unlike Asia’s banks, those of America and Western Europe are in no need of a rescue. So now is the time to improve the way they are regulated0

BRITAIN SPECIAL: GLOBAL INVESTMENT BANKS: Fools’ gold

This week’s merger of two big Swiss banks caps an extraordinary year of restructuring for the investment-banking industry. A few global firms are emerging. What fortunes will they inherit?0

Rescuing Japanese banks: Interminable delays

MONEY AND INTEREST RATES

Dealing for dollars

Freer trade in financial services is once again within reach. It is up to the United States to grasp it0

Insurance: Risky business

And it finally came to tears

Japan’s financial system is melting down. It is unclear whether the government can act quickly enough to stop it0

A fatal resolve not to budge

A combination of weak banks, indebted companies, imperious bureaucrats and cowering politicians has left South Korea on the verge of recession0

Japanese banks: And then there were 19

This week it seemed that Japan was at last facing up to its banking crisis. Then it seemed not0

Insurance: Franco-German Allianz?

Michael von Clemm

Michael von Clemm, a creative investment banker, died on November 6th, aged 620

STOCKMARKETS

Czech finance: Restoration work

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