In Maputo, hundreds of taxis compete to ferry foreign bankers from hotels to meetings.
The International Monetary Fund has expedited the delivery of relief funds and foreign bankers have rolled over short-term debt.
Most foreign bankers seem ready to give Vietnam the benefit of the doubt.
But it will bother the foreign bankers who have gaily lent to China.
The essence of the far right is to be anti-establishment, with leaders railing against corrupt elites who have sold out to foreign bankers.
And foreign bankers have no interest in testing the Indonesian courts.
That was what happened in Latin American a decade ago when many foreign bankers agreed to write off up to half the total loans they extended.
Again, the most orthodox free-market types would say that South Korean, Thai and Indonesian banks and firms should simply have defaulted, making foreign bankers and other investors lose money.
With its large (but quickly shrinking) current account deficit and dependence on foreign funding, the Thai government will need to listen to foreign bankers and overseas investors and move into the acceptance phase.
Foreign bankers, especially European and Japanese, were looking for new markets as their own stagnated, and they loaned huge sums to Indonesian enterprises via offshore entities so that actual foreign debt far exceeded the official numbers.
Other factors are also influencing foreign central bankers to stick with the devil they know.
Huge slugs of household savings were channeled by Asian, and foreign, bankers into crony property companies.
Four years later, following a string of scandals involving Swiss accounts held by corrupt foreign potentates, bankers were given the right, although they were not forced, to report dodgy clients.
Properties around Hyde Park are some of the most desirable in London, and popular with bankers, foreign investors and politicians.
Oyu Tolgoi is the poster project for a national mining boom that sees Ulaanbaatar crawling with foreign miners and their investment bankers.
But some Italian bankers are worried that foreign banks would be less inclined than domestic ones to lend to Italy's vast number of small companies.
Yet many senior bankers, British and foreign, are less sanguine.
Bankers in Karachi reckon that Pakistan may suspend foreign-debt repayments within a couple of months.
Nippon Credit Bank has tied up with Bankers Trust to securitize troubled assets and help handle foreign operations.
Tight spreads reflect bankers' enthusiasm: syndicated-lending, often by foreign banks (including one that swore not to invest another dollar in Russia after the previous meltdown), has more than doubled since 1998.
Domestic and foreign investors are pouring money into the country's stockmarket, and bankers and accountants are falling over themselves to pick up lucrative business.
Bankers have also been hurt by the drying-up of foreign credit.
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