The flotation of DP World last year may prove to be a landmark deal for the emerging markets. Edward Russell-Walling reports on how Deutsche Bank handled the largest ever Middle Eastern IPO.

A string of problems would result if the UK government decides to take the nationalisation route to digging the troubled bank out of trouble.

Bellwether Citigroup may have plugged the holes in its capital after its unacceptable fourth quarter performance, but how many other financial institutions will show the same resilience?

Emerging markets used to suffer from Western crises. Now they help to solve them by pouring capital into the system.

The unprecedented action by five central banks in response to the credit crunch is only a short-term solution to the problem.

If banks really do want to resuscitate personal mobile banking – and they’re spending huge sums doing so – they should look to the internet-based web service to prevent customer angst at the sky-high mobile phone charges. By Chris Skinner.

Merrill Lynch’s singleness of purpose played a vital part in the Royal Bank of Scotland-led consortium’s takeover of ABN AMRO. And nowhere more so than in the Fortis rights issue, the biggest ever in dollar terms, which tipped the scales against all predictions. Edward Russell-Walling reports.

A range of exciting mergers and acquisitions are proceeding among banks unaffected by subprime concerns.

Bank rules are a key reason behind the upset in financial markets and the advent of Basel II will do little to improve the situation.

Although biology is a well-known science, there is a lesser-known science with the a deceptively similar name: buyology. I created this science for banks to deal with the new world of ‘freakonomics’, where everyone is struggling to understand the methods to get customers buying and, in its purest form, buyology is defined as: the science of understanding business relationships.