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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Citigroup Pays $5 Billion For Sears’ Credit Card Unit

THE AMERICAS Citigroup agreed to acquire the credit card and financial products business of Illinois-based Sears, Roebuck for an estimated...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Telecom Leads Parade Of Taiwan-Based Issuers

ASIA Taiwans Chunghwa Telecom raised $1.4 billion through a new issue of American depositary receipts in July, as the Taiwan...

News

Cover Story : Asia

AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP ANZ Banking Group, the smallest of the four-largest Australian banks, expects to meet...

News

Cover Story : Europe

AUSTRIA BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT Austrias largest banking group, with total assets of approximately $166 billion, has just become Europes largest...

News

Cover Story : Latin America

ARGENTINA NOT AWARDED BOLIVIA BANCO BISA Banco Bisa continues to be the best performer in a country slogging through political...

News

Cover Story : North America

UNITED STATES CITIGROUP Its banking franchise in the United States is not as large as its global presence, but Citibank...

Banking

Cover Story : World’s Best Banks 2003

AFTER WEATHERING TWO terrible years, the worlds banks must have been looking forward to a less tempestuous time in 2003....

Banking

Features : Best Banks In Project Finance 2003

High energy prices could prove to be a tonic for a market that has been under the weather for the...

Special Section

Features : Central Banker Report Cards

ITS BEEN A TUMULTUOUS YEAR for the worlds central bankers. There have been resignations, falls from grace, surprise appointmentsand, of...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : CLS: Settling for Less

CLS Bank was introduced to address foreign exchange settlement risk in the interbank market,but its risk-reduction and netting benefits could...

News

Features : Custody Becomes a Relationship Business

As the profitability of pure custody services continues to decline, global custodians are realizing their dreams of moving up the...

News

Features : Euro Stumbles as Germany, Italy Slide Into Recession

EUROPE The euros slump against the US dollar and the Japanese yen may have further to run, as long as...