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DIED. SPENCER HAYWARD BLAIN, 63, top banker convicted for his role in the $284 million failure of Empire Savings & Loan of Mesquite, Texas, one of the 1980s' notorious thrift failures; of cancer complications; in Dallas...
This loneliness in a crowd was part of the Bradley mystique. Sheathed in bubble wrap so that nothing touched him, Bradley successfully fashioned himself an uncompromising outsider. Measured against political blue bloods like the son of a President, this son of a town banker so crippled by arthritis he had to be dressed in the morning looked like a character out of Horatio Alger. Bradley didn't cosset himself in a limo but drove his own battered Oldsmobile, wore the same no-designer tie day after day and had shoes so worn that a Congressman said someone should steal them...
...least according to recent headlines that lend new meaning to the term hostile takeover. From Vyborg to Vladivostok, court fights over shareholders' rights have even led to bloody clashes between riot troops and local workers. "If you want to empty a boardroom on Wall Street," quips an American investment banker in Moscow, "just say the word Russia." For too many foreigners, investing in Russia has proved to be tortuous and hugely expensive. Just ask the folks at BP Amoco. Last fall the company nearly saw its $484 million investment in Russian oil giant Sidanko all but disappear in a maze...
...fellowships, named for international banker Edmond J. Safra, will provide money for up to four graduate fellowships annually...
...Safra will be remembered as a man whose achievements as a banker are recognized throughout the world, and whose commitment to education was equally great," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in the press release. "It is fitting that HSBC Bank USA has chosen to recognize...