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All hail the superchip

May 7, 2007

The sky is the limit when it comes to the power of the chip – and size is certainly everything. Imagine a device as big as a flea that carries a complete biometric identity management system of your clients. By Chris Skinner.

Merrill emerges triumphant

May 7, 2007

The debt specialists at Merrill Lynch have been busy blazing new trails in the emerging markets. Edward Russell-Walling reports.

Cash alternative society can only work if the market says ‘yes’

May 7, 2007

Projections for a prepaid-card economy see 360 million cards issued in Europe by 2010. But this lucrative business still carries risks.

Bank consortium joins forces to share the spoils of M&A market

May 7, 2007

The three-way bid by RBS, Fortis and Santander for ABN AMRO is the prototype for a new model of mergers and acquisitions deal.

Change happens from the bottom up

May 7, 2007

The obsession with ‘global’ solutions to global problems is misguided. Answers are to be found at a much simpler level.

Subtle implications of full market access

April 2, 2007

While China’s lifting of restrictions on the operation of international banks will not result in branches opening on every Chinese high street, it does present significant opportunities, says Stephen Green.

Scything debt while the sun’s still shining

April 2, 2007

Joaquín Almunia, European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, tells Karina Robinson why states must reduce their debt burdens while they can.

Protection from prying eyes

April 2, 2007

The inexorable advances in storage capacity of simple-to-use USB devices makes bank databases increasingly vulnerable, and internal firewalls as well as devicewalls increasingly necessary.By Chris Skinner.

Turbo-charged UBS

April 2, 2007

In an extraordinarily short time frame, while much of the market was on holiday, UBS’s hybrid team managed to administer issues from Nationwide, DnB NOR, Generali and HSH Nordbank. Edward Russell-Walling reports.

An end to old certainties

April 2, 2007

Globalisation is throwing up new consumer potential in the emerging world and shattering old theories of economic management. Banks failing to track this fast-moving target will be consigned to history.

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