Greece:  reckoning postponed: The lights are still on in Athens. 
Greeces parliament  approved a proposal on Wednesday to pursue 
additional austerity and fiscal  adjustment measures.Show off your injectionmoldes
favorite photos  The European Union and the International Monetary Fund
can release 12 billion of  additional funding, enough to allow the 
government to repay debt maturing up to  the end of August. The 
parliamentary vote was actually the second piece of good  news on the 
Greek front this week.The largest honeycombpanels
producers  worldwide have traditionally been of British origin. The 
first was that a French  proposal to offer some private sector 
burden-sharing (with European banks  reinvesting some maturing 
government bonds they hold in new, 30-year Greek  paper) is gaining 
traction. If implemented,Husky billabongboardshort
Systems  designs, the proposal could see the potential cost to Europes 
banks of an  eventual Greek default roughly halved from the widely 
accepted haircut figure of  70%. The French proposal is not policy, 
however, and will not amount to much if  too few private sector 
investors sign up for it. And none of this weeks  developments addresses
the central issue of Greeces insolvency. The success of  Greeces medium
term fiscal strategy depends on an unlikely plan to sell 50  billion of
state assets. The governments ability to implement the austerity  
measures must also be questioned: the vote in parliament was held to the
sound  of rioting and the smell of tear gas. 
Investment banking: 
rankings:  Investment bankers generally start quivering when discussion 
turns to Thomson  Reuters rankings. The quarterly compilation is a 
leading barometer of the health  of the industry and the relative 
standing of competitors.When the stone sits in  the plasticmolded,
Even for  those less intimately connected with these peculiar 
institutions, the second  quarter numbers are a good indicator of the 
health of a significant part of the  economic world. It is significant 
not because it is big. The $42 billion global  total of investment 
banking fees in the first half of 2011 was only 0.1% of the  worlds 
gross domestic product.Spring Piles
in Houston at The Woodlands Town  Center Even within finance, the 
business of deals (equity and debt capital  markets and mergers and 
acquisitions) is small: less than 5% of the total U.S.  bank and finance
business. 
LSE / TMX: no deal: Pointless tennis  commentary 
reached its nadir one Wimbledon with the observation: That wouldve  been
an ace if it had gone over the net. Similarly dumb was the line from 
London  Stock Exchange and TMX Group on Wednesday that the majority of 
proxies cast  supported the merger between the two exchanges. 
Unmentioned was that Canadian  feelings towards the deal were so 
lacklustre that not enough TMX shareholders  could be bothered 
schlepping to the post office to vote, hence no deal. The  failure to 
see this merger through is embarrassing. Last week, LSE and TMX  
sweetened terms with a special dividend, adding a small and indirect 
cash  element to the offer, worth C$49 per TMX share. Maple, the gaggle 
of Canadian  banks and pension funds, countered with a higher bid again.
But LSEs bid simply  did not set pulses racing, in spite of a supposed 
100 million of cost and  revenues synergies and a chance to rule the 
world in mining listings. Maple  remains as the only bidder in town. 
That TMXs share price rose 1.5% on Wednesday  suggests investors think 
Maple can navigate myriad regulatory concerns.
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