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Madeira Debts Add To Portuguese Concerns

MILESTONES: PORTUGAL By Matt Greco With the government of Portugal announcing one austerity measure after another to meet IMF-imposed budgetary guidelines and as the rating agencies hack away at the credit-worthiness of the country’s financial institutions, new revelations ...

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Strong Investor Interest In Irish Bonds

MILESTONES: IRELAND By Matt Greco In Ireland each day’s financial developments seem to bring either a positive surprise or a mild disappointment. Irish four- and eight-year bond sales in September generated the greatest one-day increase in price ...

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Trichet Exits From ECB

NEWSMAKERS: EUROPE By Anita Hawser At the press conference that followed the European Central Bank’s Governing Council meeting on October 6 in Berlin, few would have guessed that it was Jean-Claude Trichet’s last meeting as ECB president. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Special Report: Sepa

THE JOURNEY BEGINS By Denise Bedell Upcoming end-dates for Sepa migration prompt companies to begin planning projects. Corporates in Europe are facing the inevitability of Sepa compliance in or around 2014—when end-dates for migration from domestic legacy ...

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Central Banker Report Cards 2011: Europe

EUROPE Czech Republic Miroslav Singer Grade: B Miroslav Singer had just been appointed governor when we published our last Central Banker Report Cards, but he hasn’t wasted any time in giving his assessment on how the euro crisis could ...

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Denmark Extends Claim In Arctic Seabed

MILESTONES: ARCTIC By Paula L. Green The Danish government is embarking on a precarious high-wire act as it presents an Arctic seabed claim to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Danish Arctic claims clash with ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Governments Push To Close Tax Loopholes

MILESTONES: US/EUROPE By Anita Hawser As governments in the US and Europe embark on a program of austerity measures, they are more eager than ever before to claw back millions from undeclared offshore accounts. Swiss banks reach deal with ...

Banking

Greek Bank Merger A Herald Of Things To Come

MILESTONES: GREECE By Luca Ventura The recently-announced merger of Greek banks Alpha Bank and Eurobank EFG could breathe fresh life into the much-troubled Greek banking sector. Tides turning in Greece with bank merger In fact, it would difficult ...

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WORLD’S 50 BIGGEST BANKS 2011

Global Finance ranks the 50 Biggest Banks China Breaks Into The Top 10 NEW YORK, September 7, 2011 Global Finance...

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Country Report: Spain

UPHILL BATTLE By Antonio Guerrero Spanish banks are struggling to regain momentum in the face of a sluggish economy and the need for further restructuring. Three years after Spain’s decade-long real estate bubble burst, the country’s banks ...

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LSE’s Rolet Between A Rock And A Hard Place

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED KINGDOM By Anita Hawser Xavier Rolet, the London Stock Exchange’s CEO, must have breathed a sigh of relief when the European Commission announced in early August that it would investigate the proposed merger between Deutsche Börse ...

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WORLDS BEST GLOBAL BANKS 2011

Global Finance names the World’s Best Global Banks 2011 NEW YORK, August 22, 2011 Global Finance magazine (GFmag.com) has announced...