The Banker is not trying to emulate Tatler or other society magazines with their focus on personalities. All the same, in the financial industry and beyond we constantly demonstrate that we have access to the senior players that is second to none. Last month, we featured HSBC’s chairman Sir John Bond on the cover. This month, we have interviews and input from a wide variety of senior figures, ranging from Hong Kong property magnate Vincent Lo to US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman William Donaldson, who discusses the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley in Viewpoint.

Nordea’s CEO Lars Nordstrom, Intesa CEO Corrado Passera, BBVA’s Latin

America managing director Vitalino Nafría and HSBC Bital boss Sandy

Flockhart are among those who commented on the trials and tribulations

of merging banks for the Cover Story. Do it quickly was their number

one recommendation, as senior editor Karina Robinson reports.

In the retail section, Kasikornbank’s executive vice president, David

Hendrix, describes his bank’s restructuring and in this month’s

TechVision, Oracle’s vice–president, Andrew Derrer, tells technology

editor Parveen Bansal about the drivers for change in banking IT.

In capital markets, Citigroup’s co-head of European credit markets,

Charlie Berman, sets out his Agenda for the bank’s fixed income

services, while five CSFB executives describe to capital markets editor

Geraldine Lambe the inside workings of Fifa’s $260m cancellation bond

in Team of the Month.

The executive action doesn’t stop in the regions. In Singapore, The

Banker has interviewed the CEOs of the top three banks and in Mexico

we’ve been talking to the leading investment bankers.

But in case anyone should accuse us of being personality obsessed, this

month, The Banker contains its usual array of incisive and

thought-provoking articles. Chief among them are a description of the

advent of a new product, equity default swaps, a close up on foreign

exchange as an asset class in our Foreign Exchange supplement, and a

comparison of the leverage loan markets in the US and Europe. In

Germany, our correspondent Jan Wagner investigates the role of the

regulator BaFin.

On top of all this, we have our rankings: the Credit Risk 500 examining

the credit market universe, the Top 100 Arab banks and the Central and

Eastern Europe Top 100 banks. A comparable mix of profile and depth

would be difficult to find.

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