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Welcome to the financial hypermart.
Business Today More (New Delhi, India); 12/27/2009; 1577 words; ...generation private sector banks gained an edge over non-banking...finance firms and even foreign banks (which, don 't forget...public sector monolith State Bank of India has of late revved...wide distribution network are holding the public sector brigade in...FORWARD Share of retail loans in ...

Look back in anger
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 2530 words; ...blooded investment bank, Cazenove. The group...sell their 50 per cent holding in the business to partner...scooped by the investment banks for underwriting rights issue offerings. Banks pocket on average more...threatened to cut out the banks and help companies raise...printing money. The ...

Wealthy, quiet, unassuming: the Christmas Day bomb suspect
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 2161 words; ...earlier this month as the chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria but is still on the boards of several...biggest firms, including Jaiz International, a holding company for the Islamic Bank. The 70-year-old, who was also educated in...

Welcome to the financial hypermart ; Retail lending took off in the past decade. In the next 10 years, it will come of age.
Business Today; 12/27/2009; 1357 words; ...generation private sector banks gained an edge over non-banking...finance firms and even foreign banks (which, don t forget, were...public sector monolith State Bank of India has of late revved...wide distribution network are holding the public sector brigade in...FORWARD Share of retail loans in ...

In the Atacama, the world holds its breath
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 1673 words; ...irrefutable truism that nails the vital round in pub quizzes. You can bank on it. But I arrive - and within minutes it begins to rain...the cloud slowly turns to vapour. The world is no longer holding its breath. San Pedro de Atacama, the hub of tourism in the...