Adecco spends E100m to clear name 1 Jun 2004 It will cost the Swiss staffing group nearly a quarter of this year s net income to prove its accounting is in order. But the fallout is still settling. A split board and potentially lost clients are only the most obvious damage.
CSFB uses incubator to retain top trading talent 1 Jun 2004 Remember incubators from the dotcom boom? Then investors offered capital to fledgling dotcoms in the hope they'd turn out to be winners. CSFB's incubator is designed to staunch the exodus of young trading talent to hedge funds. Yet more evidence of the hedge fund bubble.
M&S coup turns spotlight on Green financing 1 Jun 2004 Will the billionaire be able to hold his backers together if he has to bid higher now that the M&S old guard has been swept out? Only if he can really convince both his backers and M&S shareholders that he can create serious value.