1. Another Russian banker said profits from GKO trading can be even higher. 2. A leading Russian banker, Boris Jordan, is one such person. 3. A Russian banker familiar with Inkombank said the bank was scrambling to come up with money to meet its overnight obligations. 4. Country Club Bank Senior Vice President John L. Kopecky last month spent a week teaching Russian bankers the fundamentals of asset and liability management techniques. 5. Last year about a dozen high-ranking Russian bankers were gunned down in apparent mob hits, and none of the murders has produced arrests. 6. Not that the Russian bankers and financiers have not tried. 7. Some Russian bankers have said that Russia cannot meet its debt obligations. 8. That is, they told Russian bankers to put up more collateral or repay the loan. 9. The Russian bankers, fearing a devaluation, began to buy dollars at an increasingly frantic rate. 10. There have been dozens of attacks against Russian bankers. |