Big Banks Out
Germany's banks are under fire. The calls to relax what one insider describes as the banks' 'stranglehold on German industry' are...
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Regulation Archive
Playing in Concert
It wasn't the ideal way to announce a mega-merger. On Friday, November 1 last year, news leaked out that something was afoot...
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Private - Do Not Enter
Protecting minority shareholders from the bullying tactics of those eager to control public companies is an important task of...
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Putting Spin on Spin
'Bigger is better,' was what IROs of conglomerates used to say, before they discovered the joys of demerging. Today, demergers are...
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Scaling the Wall
If you like symbolism - and isn't that what separates us from the chimps, after all? - then you may want to brave the New York...
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Wiping the Slate
If a Martian or other extraterrestrial suddenly landed on Earth after studying the pre-1980 basics of the American capital markets...
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Good Times & Bad
'Shareholders need better quality information,' is the conclusion of a recent report by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in...
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Wall Street's Dragon Teeth
Titters bubbled from corporate executives at a recent conference as an attorney ponderously explained the idea of writing in plain...
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Financial Wizards
'We don't do phone calls or meetings with analysts,' demurs the IR chief at a regional financial institution in the States. 'Once...
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Dear Shareholder ...
'I am pleased to report that my inability to write a decent letter to shareholders in the annual report should have little bearing...
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