Boarding the bond wagon
According to Capital Data Bondware, western European corporates issued bonds worth $43.4 bn in the year to the end of April...
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Reporting Archive
Cutting out the middle
In a networked world, the old ways of doing business are creaking to a stop. The boundaries between buyers and sellers are...
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Stock wizardry
The buying and selling of stock has come a long way since lower Manhattan hustlers hawked their wares on the curb of Beaver Street...
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Looking out
Few countries have taken so quickly to international accounting standards (IAS) as Switzerland. Around 100 Swiss companies have...
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Soul searching
Five years ago, if you were to look at a lot of companies in Europe, the IR role was being performed by people with PR backgrounds...
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Millenium nightmare
There's global agreement that the Year 2000 problem, known as Y2K, exists. Many computer systems are not programmed to deal with...
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The forest for the trees
There's global agreement that the Year 2000 problem, known as Y2K, exists. Many computer systems are not programmed to deal with...
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Europhoria
The US may embrace the opportunities offered by a unified Euro-market, but it should not assume such a transformation is a single...
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Wake-up call
When the management of Hongkong & Shanghai Bank headed into work on the morning of August 28 last year, the last thing they...
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