Part IV
Published Articles
This section includes published articles that primarily describe my role as Vice President and Treasurer in the Bank’s financial operations
PRESS ARTICLES (1960s – 70s)
- Who is Gene Rotberg and What Does He Want?
By Heidi S. Fiske – The Institutional Investor - Rotberg Speaks on Global Environment
By Ramon Carlos Nivera – Wharton Journal - The New Environment for World Bank Borrowing
by James L. Srodes – The Institutional Investor - Running an $8 Billion Portfolio – The World Bank’s Treasurer: Helping the Poor through Caution
Euromoney - Rotberg’s Approach is One of Flexibility
By Robert A. Bennett – American Banker
PRESS ARTICLES (1980s)
- Borrowing for the Bank Where Bad Loans are Unknown
by Jo McBride – Asian Banking – Asia-Pacific and the Bretton Woods Institutions - World Bank’s Treasurer Knows Where Oil Bucks Are
The Pennsylvania Gazette - World Bank’s Wide Prestige – Market Place
By Karen W. Arenson – The New York Times - World Bank Treasurer Rotberg Strives for Flexibility on $9.7 Billion Portfolio
by Kenneth H. Bacon – The Wall Street Journal - Solutions and Opportunities and A Debt Restructuring Scenario
- Frightening Do-Gooder
by Robert F. Morris – To the Editor – The Pennsylvania Gazette - The Politics of the World Bank’s Eurobond Debut
by Laura White Dillon – The Institutional Investor - World Bank Treasurer Rotberg Has Large Portfolio, ‘Actively Managed’
by Kenneth H. Bacon – The Wall Street Journal - How the World Bank Manages Its Money
by Clyde H. Farnsworth – The New York Times - Eugene H. Rotberg – The Gallery – Temple University Magazine
- Rotberg: A Talk on the Borrowing Side
by Ellen Tillier – The Bank’s World - ‘I Don’t Want to Make Invidious Comparisons With Commercial Banks and Other Lending Institutions’ – Eugene H. Rotberg
by Sidney Brown, As We See it – The Market Chronicle - The World’s Smartest Banker – Institutional Investor
- World Bank Exec Predicts Restructure for Nations’ Debts
by Cheryl Wenner – Allentown Morning Call - Third World’s Debt Burden – Talking Business With Qureshi and Rotberg of World Bank
The New York Times - Rotberg to Bankers: Don’t Expect LDC Debt Repayment
The Institutional Investor - Time to Loosen Up a Bit
- Fresh Techniques by World Bank
By Peter Montagnon – Financial Times - When Rotberg Speaks – Journal of Commerce
- Letter from Sargent Shriver
- Specialized Breed of Trader Manages World Bank’s Huge Pool of Assets
by Daniel Hertzberg – The Wall Street Journal - ‘Stroke of Genius’ Deal – Financial Weekly
- Currency Swaps Go Legit – Institutional Investor
- World Bank – The IBM Deal that Opens a Cash Source
International Business - Moving Towards a Simpler way of Funding
By Peter Montagnon – Financial Times - World Bank is a Global Bellwether
By John M. Berry – Herald International Tribune - IFR Portrait Gallery
- Smart answers to Dumb Questions
By Ben Weberman – Forbes Magazine - Financial Markets Pay Close Attention to World Bank
Washington Business - Celebration of Excellence: 40 Years in the Euromarkets – Personalities of the 1980s – EuroWeek
- Rotberg to Banks: You’re on Your Own
by Kevin Muehring – Institutional Investor - AGEFI Borrower Profile and Why Eugene Likes Swaps
- The World Bank Approach to Debt – Euromoney
- Rotberg’s Libor Allergy – Euromoney
- A New Guide for Borrowers in Europe – Institutional Investor (International)
- Experts Warn That Innovations Pose Hazards For Financial System, Developing Countries – Institutional Investor
- World Bank Devises a New Method to Raise Cash and World Bank Changing – International Herald Tribune
- World Bank Unveils Deal on Debt Swaps – Financial Times
- International Capital Markets – The World Bank’s $200m “go-it-alone” Eurobond – Source
- The Profit Machine that Helps the Poor –Asian Finance
- A Mini-Museum at the World Bank – The New York Times
- A World Bank Solution – The Journal of Commerce
- Gene Rotberg Profile – Institutional Investor
- Rotberg’s Thirteen Questions
- Rotberg’s “Poison Put” – Annual Meeting News
- Hard Questions about Who Pays for the Brady Plan
- Debt Forgiveness, B.C. – Wall Street Journal
- Searching for Solutions
Joint Annual Meeting News - Who Could Ever Replace Gene?
Institutional Investor - The Innovator by Daniel J. Kadlec
Investment Dealers’ Digest - Be on Guard in the Glittery World of Financial Innovation
The Market Chronicle - World Bank Gets the Accolades – Euromoney
- The World Bank’s Philosopher-King
Euromoney - The Mighty Market-Makers Show their Skills
Asian Finance - The Prima Donna Bows Out – Asian Finance
- Global Markets’ Morning After – Insight
- Debt Relief a la Eugene Rotberg
Institutional Investor - Merrill Lynch Names Eugene Rotberg Exec. V.P.
The Market Chronicle - Trading Places – Profile of Eugene Rotberg:
Moving from the World Stage to an Investment House
by Sarah Priestley – Euromoney - The Blunders and Ineptitude that have Deepened the Crisis Faced by the World Bank
By Alex Brummer – The Guardian (UK) - Shuffling at World Bank by Hobart Rowen
The Washington Post - From World Bank to Wall Street
The Economist - Why Gene Rotberg Left the Bank
Institutional Investor - Eugene Rotberg – Treasurer – World Bank – “When I Left the SEC, People said, ‘My God! He’s Ruined the Securities Industry. What’s he Going to do to the World’s Financial System?”
Editor: Margaret A. Elliott
Institutional Investor - Eugene Rotberg – photo
- Surviving the Meltdown – Rotberg on Risk
International Finance Review
PRESS ARTICLES (1990s)
- Rotberg Leaves Merrill Lynch
Institutional Investor - Beware Treasury’s Bank Reform Plan
The New York Times - Gene Rotberg Continues to Influence International Financial Issues after a Distinguished 40-Year Career
Temple University Magazine - Eugene Rotberg – A 40-Year Retrospective
Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation - The Troubles I See – Eugene Rotberg
Institutional Investor – 40th Anniversary Issue - Eugene Rotberg – The Human Nature of Business
Temple University Review
PRESS ARTICLES (2000s)
- World Leader: The Borrower That Shaped The Bond Markets
International Financing Review Special Report, September 2013 - Commentary
Selected quotes from various publications
Who is Gene Rotberg and What Does He Want?
By Heidi S. Fiske – The Institutional Investor
Rotberg Speaks on Global Environment
By Ramon Carlos Nivera – Wharton Journal
Running an $8 Billion Portfolio – The World Bank’s Treasurer: Helping the Poor through Caution
Euromoney
The New Environment for World Bank Borrowing
by James L. Srodes – The Institutional Investor
Rotberg’s Approach is One of Flexibility
By Robert A. Bennett – American Banker
Eugene H. Rotberg
The Gallery – Temple University Magazine
How the World Bank Manages Its Money
by Clyde H. Farnsworth – The New York Times
World Bank’s Treasurer Knows Where Oil Bucks Are
The Pennsylvania Gazette
World Bank’s Wide Prestige
Market Place – By Karen W. Arenson – The New York Times
The Politics of the World Bank’s Eurobond Debut
by Laura White Dillon – The Institutional Investor
The World’s Smartest Banker
Institutional Investor
World Bank Exec Predicts Restructure for Nations’ Debts
by Cheryl Wenner – Allentown Morning Call
Rotberg to Bankers: Don’t Expect LDC Debt Repayment
The Institutional Investor
World Bank Treasurer Rotberg Strives for Flexibility on $9.7 Billion Portfolio
by Kenneth H. Bacon – The Wall Street Journal
World Bank Treasurer Rotberg Has Large Portfolio, ‘Actively Managed’
by Kenneth H. Bacon – The Wall Street Journal
Borrowing for the Bank Where Bad Loans are Unknown
by Jo McBride – Asian Banking
Frightening Do-Gooder
by Robert F. Morris – To the Editor – The Pennsylvania Gazette
Specialized Breed of Trader Manages World Bank’s Huge Pool of Assets
by Daniel Hertzberg – The Wall Street Journal
‘Stroke of Genius’ Deal
Financial Weekly
World Bank – The IBM Deal that Opens a Cash Source
Business Week
Currency Swaps Go Legit
Institutional Investor
When Rotberg Speaks
Journal of Commerce
Letter from Sargent Shriver
Fresh Techniques by World Bank
By Peter Montagnon – Financial Times
‘I Don’t Want to Make Invidious Comparisons With Commercial Banks and Other Lending Institutions’ – Eugene H. Rotberg
by Sidney Brown, As We See it – The Market Chronicle
Third World’s Debt Burden – Talking Business With Qureshi and Rotberg of World Bank
The New York Times
The World Bank Approach to Debt
Euromoney
Rotberg’s Thirteen Questions
A World Bank Solution
The Journal of Commerce
A Mini-Museum at the World Bank
The New York Times
Rotberg: A Talk on the Borrowing Side
by Ellen Tillier – The Bank’s World
Gene Rotberg Profile
Institutional Investor
The World Bank’s Philosopher-King
Euromoney
Debt Relief a la Eugene Rotberg
Institutional Investor
Rotberg’s Libor Allergy – Euromoney
Euromoney
The Profit Machine that Helps the Poor
Asian Finance
International Capital Markets – The World Bank’s $200m “go-it-alone” Eurobond
Source
IFR Portrait Gallery
Experts Warn That Innovations Pose Hazards For Financial System, Developing Countries
Institutional Investor
A New Guide for Borrowers in Europe
Institutional Investor (International)
World Bank Devises a New Method to Raise Cash and World Bank Changing
International Herald Tribune
World Bank Unveils Deal on Debt Swaps
Financial Times
The Innovator
by Daniel J. Kadlec Investment Dealers’ Digest
Smart answers to Dumb Questions
By Ben Weberman – Forbes Magazine
Financial Markets Pay Close Attention to World Bank
Washington Business
World Bank is a Global Bellwether
By John M. Berry – Herald International Tribune
Be on Guard in the Glittery World of Financial Innovation
The Market Chronicle
The Mighty Market-Makers Show their Skills
Asian Finance
Moving Towards a Simpler way of Funding
By Peter Montagnon – Financial Times
Celebration of Excellence: 40 Years in the Euromarkets – Personalities of the 1980s
EuroWeek
Shuffling at World Bank
by Hobart Rowen The Washington Post
The Blunders and Ineptitude that have Deepened the Crisis Faced by the World Bank
By Alex Brummer – The Guardian (UK)
From World Bank to Wall Street
The Economist
Eugene Rotberg – Treasurer – World Bank – “When I Left the SEC, People said, ‘My God! He’s Ruined the Securities Industry. What’s he Going to do to the World’s Financial System?”
Editor: Margaret A. Elliott Institutional Investor
Why Gene Rotberg Left the Bank
Institutional Investor
World Bank Gets the Accolades
Euromoney
The Prima Donna Bows Out
Asian Finance
Surviving the Meltdown – Rotberg on Risk
International Finance Review
Global Markets’ Morning After
Insight
AGEFI Borrower Profile and Why Eugene Likes Swaps
Merrill Lynch Names Eugene Rotberg Exec. V.P.
The Market Chronicle
Trading Places – Profile of Eugene Rotberg: Moving from the World Stage to an Investment House
by Sarah Priestley – Euromoney
Eugene Rotberg – photo
Solutions and Opportunities and A Debt Restructuring Scenario
Searching for Solutions
Joint Annual Meeting News
Time to Loosen Up a Bit
The Banker
Hard Questions about Who Pays for the Brady Plan
Who Could Ever Replace Gene?
Institutional Investor
Rotberg to Banks: You’re on Your Own
by Kevin Muehring Institutional Investor
Rotberg’s “Poison Put”
Annual Meeting News
Debt Forgiveness, B.C.
Wall Street Journal
Rotberg Leaves Merrill Lynch
Institutional Investor
Beware Treasury’s Bank Reform Plan
The New York Times
Gene Rotberg Continues to Influence International Financial Issues after a Distinguished 40-Year Career
Temple University Magazine
The Troubles I See – Eugene Rotberg
Institutional Investor – 40th Anniversary Issue
Eugene Rotberg – A 40-Year Retrospective
Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation
Eugene Rotberg – The Human Nature of Business
Temple University Review
World Leader: The Borrower That Shaped The Bond Markets
International Financing Review Special Report
Commentary
Selected quotes from various publications.