Anticipating the new "corporate governance" rules. The European Investment Bank (EIB) intends to set the standard. It has correctly anticipated practices and innovations which have been years in the making, in Europe and the rest of the industrialised world, in the field of "corporate governance". The basic guidelines, part of which have already retained (notably in the US) and part are being outlined, on the transparency of business activity, have been taken up by the EIB in a detailed and...