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THE MALTA FINANCIAL & BUSINESS TIMES

13 August 2003
ISSUE NO. 298
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Editorial
Everything to gain and everything to lose
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Economic Update



FIMBank to extend LFC offer for an additional week as rival bid rumoured
By David Lindsay
Malta-based First International Merchant Bank is to extend its takeover bid for the London Forfaiting Company for an additional week, FIMBank General Manager Raymond Busuttil told The Malta Financial and Business Times yesterday. READ MORE >>

Yachting the future - Cottonera seeks its riches
The regeneration of the Vittoriosa waterfront has entered a new phase in its development with the addition of yachting berths inside the creek. READ MORE >>

Germany finalises tax and welfare reforms
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government will this week finalise a radical overhaul of Germany's costly social welfare system, part of make-or-break reforms designed to spur the ailing German economy. READ MORE >>


INTERVIEW
Achieving tenfold growth in six years and still growing
Since 1997 the Borg Group of Companies has been redefining the various industries it operates in. Here DAVID LINDSAY meets Managing Director Edward Borg, who has seen the Group’s turnover increase tenfold in just six years. Here he speaks about the Group’s successes past, present and future.


OPINION
Evaluating the strategy five years on
European Central Bank Executive Board Member Professor Otmar Issing addresses the ECB Watchers Conference in Frankfurt


NEWS

Worm blasts across the web

FOI reacts to proposed changes in EU chemicals legislation

Sea Malta organises seminar on ISPS Code

Business activity rebounds after elections

Equity volumes fall 21 per cent over Q2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Editor: Saviour Balzan
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