For ABN AMRO’s pioneering property derivatives team the value of deals is mushrooming, but it is keen that other players enter the market and create greater liquidity. Joanne Hart reports.

Marcel Rohner, the incoming UBS CEO, is inheriting all kinds of problems, most of which are not of his making.

For now, emerging markets bask in glory as they poach quality moniker from ailing developed markets – but a bubble looms.

The lessons of the losses experienced by Lloyd’s of London in the 1980s were overlooked by banks embroiled in the subprime crisis, who recklessly issued vast amounts of collateralised debt obligations. By Chris Skinner.

Dresdner Kleinwort is ahead of the advisory pack in terms of deal value in European electricity mergers and acquisitions this year. The bank’s utilities and natural resources team talk to Edward Russell-Walling about their recent success in one of the most difficult deals in cross-border history, Enel’s takeover of Endesa.

As the world enters a new era of diverse wealth distribution, global financial institutions must reflect the change.

The current debacle over Northern Rock is going to lead to a complete rethink on markets and the way they are governed.

Given current regulations regarding SWFs, the US and EU have no right to attack emerging economies on how they invest.

Government intervention may let the financially reckless off the hook but it can also prevent the wider economy from collapsing.

Chief information officers complain that no one else in the business, least of all CEOs, realises that information is a core risk for a bank and must be managed. The best way is with the co-operation of the chief risk officer, says Chris Skinner.