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Naughty schoolboys

Wheeler-dealers

Spot the difference

The (Romanian) hand of fate

David Soanes makes the centrefold

Contented little baby, or contented little banker?

Television’s David Soanes

Calyon has always been the marzipan square in the great chocolate box of international capital markets — colourless, unfancied and really there only to make up the numbers.

After the immense popularity of last week’s Euroblog — believe it or not but this esteemed column was the second most read of all EuroWeek online stories this week — we have been looking at ways of keeping it up.

triathlete@euroweek.com A week on and the schnapps-induced hangover is finally beginning to clear and the memory is beginning to return. Yes, that’s right, we were among the lucky few to be invited up to Kari Kukka’s final crayfish-fest on board the good ship Svanhild. And what a crayfish-fest it was.

Basis Pint Until recently we used to remember the pin numbers for our credit cards by tried and trusted methods — mostly scribbling the number down somewhere.

Fix Dinkum The summer lull is well and truly here. While lots of people are sunning themselves on beaches, those left at their desks are really stuck in the doldrums of issuance. It’s actually quite boring.