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The candidates to be prime minister are throwing away their party's reputation for economic prudence BRITAIN'S CONSERVATIVES like to think they are the party of economic competence. Although they have [...]

Morocco and Tunisia have made determined efforts over the past decade to reform their financial systems. How much progress have they made, and what remains to be done to ensure [...]

TOKYO The Japanese government has announced its intention to reform the financial system. Should its proposals be taken seriously? WHEN Japan's voters returned the Liberal Democratic Party to power in [...]

A battle to break the monopolies in Europe's postal industry is about to begin. Can the European Commission create a single market? WHEN the Council of Ministers met in Lisbon [...]

CREDIT Robert Rubin for one thing: he likes a challenge. America's treasury secretary is trying again to change the archaic laws that govern the banking system. The fact that dozens [...]

Into the ring TORONTO TIGHT ownership curbs and carefully circumscribed powers have long kept Canada's banks, trust companies, insurers and securities dealers in four distinct groups. In 1987 the securities [...]

TOKYO'S Big Bang of financial-sector reform is supposed to start on April 1st. Yet between now and close of business on March 31st, the government will be doing its best [...]

Janet Dansie reports on a meeting between Russian regional gas distributors and some representatives of the UK gas industry. The giant Russian gas distribution industry is slowly coming to grips [...]

TOKYO 'RAPID' has scarcely been an apt adjective for the speed of Japanese financial reform-until now. On June 13th the finance ministry announced the blueprint for its much-heralded financial deregulation, [...]

German utilities and international telecoms companies are preparing for the deregulation of Germany's telecoms market. RWE, an energy firm, pulled out of an alliance with British Telecom and Germany's Viag. [...]

IN A WEEK when both Oftel, the telephone regulator, and Ofgas, the gas regulator, announced big price cuts, the government also unveiled plans that will make Britain the least expensive [...]

BANKERS in the United States are no strangers to disappointment on Capitol Hill. Each year they hope wistfully for changes to the Glass-Steagall act, which has (with some notable exceptions) [...]

AMERICA'S much-touted information superhighway was never likely to go anywhere without the deregulation of the telephone and cable-TV industry. That is now on the map. On January 11th, speaking at [...]

On April 1, 1991, Taiwan will begin opening its market to distilled spirits from the United States and the European Community. The schedule for market opening for U.S. distilled spirits, [...]

THE Thatcher cabinet may be looking rockier by the day, but the spirit of Thatcherism still thrives-at least if the plan to open up the telecommunications industry, published on November [...]

Three in one Look at Italy's three big financial weaknesses. It has a feeble stockmarket. It has a poorly capitalised and politically dominated banking system. And its government has too [...]

Pinstriped vikings put to sea For years Scandinavia's bankers and insurers have been quietly minding their own business on Europe's northern fringes. Not for much longer. A rather belated deregulation [...]

O What a tangled web we weave BEST not call Brussels on November 7th. When the EC's 12 telecommunications ministers meet that day to discuss ways to open Europe's telecoms [...]