The Banker's View is a monthly Chronicle written by Jean-Pierre Patat.

Latest issue:

• April 2008, The strong euro and the franc zone English French

Previous issues:

• Toward more bank mergers in the Euro area : what implication for banking supervision? (September, 2007)

• Corruption a detestable but necessary practice or a calamity that must be eliminated? (April, 2007)

• Expansion of monetary aggregates and inflation : don't shoot M3! (February, 2007)

• Let's talk again about exchange rates (November, 2006)

• The fall in world stock markets: speculative funds play with the short term and herding behavior of the other operators (July, 2006)

• Gold and euro: the barbarian relic, but perhaps also the European currency, are shelters in a puzzled world (May 2006)

• Are hedge funds useful institutions or symbols of an excessive financial globalisation ? (March, 2006)

• An informal US-China alliance has induced a relatively weak euro and very low bond rates, but it is not necessary good for Europe (January, 2006)

• Is the ECB ready to shoot? (October, 2005)

• What's new about the trend in long-term interest rates ? (September, 2005)

• Micro-finance: a real leverage for development in Africa? (July, 2005)

• The balance of payments of the euro zone in 2004: a mitigated result (May, 2005)

• Is the current level of long term interest rates so abnormal? (April, 2005)

• Davos: will the new approach on worldwide poverty issue encourage the private sector to invest in Africa? (February, 2005)

• Tsunami in Asia. The rich countries are concerned (January, 2005)

• Don't shoot our bank! (December, 2004)

• A stable and rather firm Euro, a weak European economic growth (October-November, 2004)

• The true stakes for the African countries in the WTO negotiations (September, 2004)

• Two major deadlines for banks: Basle II and the new accounting standards (August, 2004)

• The enlarged European Union and its challenges (July, 2004)

• NEPAD: things are changing in Africa (June, 2004)

• Exit from danger zone for the dollar? (May, 2004)