Suppliers call for factoring service
By Miriam Dunn
Suppliers and traders may well decide to push banks to make a factoring service available to them, in the wake of the sensational Price Club supermarket crash

Globe/British American merger set for first half 2002
By David Lindsay
Globe Financial Management yesterday provided further details of its proposed merger with British American Insurance. The agreement would see Globe taking over the gauntlet of British American’s local operations in return for an allocation of shares in Globe. The share transfer is expected to effectively make British American a significant shareholder of Globe

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Muammar Gaddafi: the wise investor
Muammar Gaddafi is known world-wide for being the leader of the Libyan nation, for his subversive ideologies, recently toned down in a bid to relieve the Libyan economy from UN and US sanctions, as well as for his shrewdness and intellect.