The Global Finance 600: The world's most powerful financial players

From: Global Finance | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

GERMANY

Josef Ackermann

Ackermann, 50, who quit Credit Suisse two years ago to join Deutsche Bank's Vorstand, presses for central control of investment banking. In the January management reshuffle, he garnered responsibility for all trading activities-and seems to be gaining on ma in rival Ronaldo Hermann Schmitz, 60, who oversees the bank's underperforming investment banking business.

INDONESIA

Nienie Narwastu Admadjaja

Founded in 1956, Bank Danamon didn't become a major player until Nienie Narwastu Admadjaja, sister of bank chairman Usman Admadjaja, took the helm in the late 1980s. ...

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