SS Euro - sinking the unsinkable - It is the risk that can only be whispered in the corridors of Brussels - that monetary union will go horribly wrong. As the financial markets prepare to board the SS Euro, has anyone bothered to count the lifeboats? A growing body of subversive literature is daring to ask "What if?" and is producing some alarming answers. Should a Hollywood mogul be buying the ...

E-payments and cash management - Survival of the slickest - Efficient e-payments have little appeal for banks, since they're expensive to install and go against their own interests. But can they afford to be passive by-standers?

Shirreff, David, (2001)

German bank mergers: Dance of the cobra - Dramatic change in Germany's banking industry has long been predicted but very little has been achieved. Cobra's attempt to increase its stake in Commerzbank provoked the bank into frantic merger negotiations with Dresdner. But once again the deal failed. Where now for Germany's banks?

Shirreff, David, (2000)

Central and eastern European banks: Grand masters of opacity - The rescue of Investicni a Postovni Banka in Prague was dramatic and highly controversial. So is the bank's entire history - an essay in how not to privatize. Was the solution a political stitch-up, or did the Czech authorities finally do the right thing?

Shirreff, David, (2000)