Big Cross-Border Mergers May Remain Rare Occurrences In Europe's Financial Sector
CORPORATE FINANCING FOCUS When Abbey National, then the sixth-largest bank in the UK, agreed in July 2004 to a takeover bid of about $15.5 billion from ...

Deal Helps Bank Austria Take Clear Lead in CEE
Erich Hampel, CEO of Bank Austria Creditanstalt, writing in the bank's 2004 annual report, said, "In Central and Eastern Europe, our goal is to become ...

BEST BANKS IN TURKEY, 2005
Turkish banks are benefiting from a stronger Turkish economy and banking regulators' recent efforts to streamline and clean up the nation's banking industry.