Comment
-
Credit Suisse issue still leaves Coco's future uncertain
Credit Suisse may have pulled off a sale of a decent slab of contingent convertible bonds to strategic investors in the Middle East, but the deal says very little about the coco bonds' eventual acceptability among a broader group of investors.
-
Honey, they’re going to shrink the banks
Banking is a mature industry although, from the early 1990s, leverage fooled many into thinking the industry was both growing and consolidating – a financial oxymoron. But something funny happened along the road to western bank consolidation.
-
Douglas Ferrans
Issuers need more guidance to avoid high underwriting fees
14 Feb 2011 -
David Collinson
Pension insurance buy-ins are ‘a bargain’
14 Feb 2011 -
Simon Boughey
Dodd-Frank gives nod to regulatory turf wars
14 Feb 2011 -
William Hutchings
Forget corporate governance – vive la révolution
14 Feb 2011 -
Graham Stock
Investors should welcome brave new Arab world
14 Feb 2011 -
Michelle Price
LSE's Canadian tie-up: a taste of the future
09 Feb 2011 -
Radi Khasawneh
Islamic banking move is a potential game-changer
09 Feb 2011 -
Kevin Frisby
Lifestyle options need to embrace absolute returns
07 Feb 2011 -
William Hutchings
So exactly what are consultants good for?
07 Feb 2011 -
Roy C Smith
Fixing Europe’s banks comes first
07 Feb 2011
Editor's View
-
Exchanges: this time it’s for real. Promise
In the sporadically exciting world of stock exchanges, it’s déjà vu all over again. Or is it another bout of amnesia?
-
William Wright, Editor
Bond markets don’t always get their own way
07 Feb 2011 -
William Wright
The perils of elections
07 Feb 2011 -
William Wright
A question of transparency over fees
31 Jan 2011
Letter From
-
Letter from Sierra Leone: Exploiting resources needs local support
Less than a decade after a brutal 11-year civil war, the image of Sierra Leone is not a good one. The film Blood Diamond is no advert for tourism. But my visit there recently revealed a country that appears politically stable, will host its third free election next year and appears to be brimming with highly educated former exiles who have returned to rebuild their country.
-
Summer Said
Letter from Cairo: Egypt’s future unclear as protesters take sides
07 Feb 2011 -
Tim Falconer
Letter from Dubai: Regulator’s villain hunt has 007 feel
31 Jan 2011 -
Yasmine Chinwala
Letter from Cape Town: World Cup effect has yet to show
24 Jan 2011
