Left to right: Simon Parry-Wingfield and Ben Babcock
HeidelbergCement has successfully restructured the debt accumulated from its Hanson acquisition with the help of Morgan Stanley, who were tasked with Europe's largest-ever stressed refinancing exercise. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
The Bracken column is named after Brendan Bracken, the founding editor of The Banker in 1926 and chairman of the modern-day Financial Times from 1945 to 1958.
While the current crisis continues to wreak the worst financial havoc seen since the Second World War, it is at best premature and most certainly hazardous to try to draw any conclusions.
Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank
The severe impact of the global downturn on emerging economies in Africa is often ignored by the West but the African Development Bank is working hard to preserve growth across the continent.
The chairman of PrivatBank explains how the bank intends to ride out the downturn through its focus on increasing liquidity and improving the quality of its loan portfolio. Writer Brian Caplen
Dr Lawrence Gonzi, prime minister of Malta
Malta might be tiny but it is determined to make itself heard on the world stage. Dr Lawrence Gonzi, prime minister of Malta, explains how. Writer Michael Imeson
If news can be tracked online as it happens, then real-time buying and selling must be achieveable. By Chris Skinner
Life is returning to the equity-linked markets: Nomura, newly stocked with ex-Lehman staff, intends to make the most of it.
