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Prompted by new SEC rules, the largest prime money market fund in the US will switch to a government mandate. The move might herald the transformation of the $1.7 trillion prime MMF industry.

GS, MS and JPM have all arrived on the global map. Are the traditional private banks ready for the challenge?

How can Caesars Entertainment have an equity value of $2 billion while its bankrupt operating subsidiary owes creditors $18 billion?

Buys trading portfolios from Credit Suisse, Deutsche; integration of commodities and banking paying off.

BAML builds up; all eyes on UBS; changing dynamics prove alluring.

Global head of private wealth management Tucker York talks to Euromoney about the $40 million-plus client offering it is focusing on.

Greg Fleming, president of Morgan Stanley's Wealth Management, talks to Euromoney about how the firm is increasing lending and gearing up for the millennials.

Monetary policy errors in Europe or Japan, political discord in Europe and geopolitical risk are big risks for 2015, says Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management, in an interview with Euromoney.

Opinion is divided on how automation of trade-finance processes is changing bank practices in relation to FX reporting and processing.

Mark Haefele, global chief investment officer at UBS Wealth Management, says his firm is looking to the US for this year's returns.

US growth, dollar appreciation, China slowdown and potential geopolitical fallout from lower oil prices: Michael Strobaek, global CIO for Credit Suisse Private Bank, discusses his firm's outlook for the year ahead.

Asoka Wöhrmann, global CIO with Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, shares his macro and asset allocation views for the year ahead.

Thomas Moore, CIO and head of private investment group Americas at HSBC Private Bank, talks about how oil prices and volatility are concerns for the year ahead.

Negative publicity around cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has deflected attention from the potential of the underlying technology to facilitate real-time – and therefore much cheaper – international payments.

Euromoney interviews the chief investment officers of the world's leading private banks.

Geopolitics, epidemics, the media… Burkhard Varnholt, CIO and head of investment solutions at Julius Baer, shares his firm's views on risks for the year ahead.

Larry Adams, CIO for Deutsche Bank's Wealth Management Americas, shares his views on how 2014 was full of surprises and how 2015 could be full of risks.

Richard Madigan, chief investment officer at JPMorgan Private Bank, shares his views on oil-price surprises, and euro-exit and geopolitical concerns for the year ahead.

Steven Wieting, global chief investment strategist for Citi Private Bank, shares his firm's views on the surprises of 2014 and the market ahead.

Manuela D’Onofrio, head of global investments at UniCredit Private Bank, offers her views on 2014 and the year ahead.

From the Volcker Rule to the EU’s proposed ring-fencing, inconsistent rules on bank structures, both within the EU and between the US and Europe, are the latest threat to the global banking model.

US officials are waging a war to promote the leverage ratio as a binding constraint on banks’ capital frameworks, further imperilling strategic planning for cross-border lenders.

You’d have thought the new CEO of Santander needed little introduction. But Ana Botín’s advisers have played a cannily surgical game… so far.

Markets ended 2014 beset by fear. Deflation is now a global concern and the doomsayers see rapidly falling commodity prices as the canary in the coalmine. But the nattering nabobs of negativism are wrong.

It has been a year of two halves for FX, with an opening seven months characterized by low volatility and few attractive trading opportunities for FX managers, before a dollar bull market roared into life in August. It is arguably the first such market for 20 years, bringing with it a rise in volatility and enhanced opportunities for FX traders.

BNP Paribas Wealth Management CIO Florent Bronès shares his firm's views on last year's surprises and the risks ahead in 2015.

Investment in FX technology is expected to mirror growth in wider financial services IT expenditure over the next few years.

Want to see improvements to your town or city? Don’t just rely on municipal budgets. New crowdfunding sources are springing up. The disruptors even have municipal bond markets in their sights.

Some parts of the US market are ‘carnage’; energy bond maturity wall is not due until after 2017.

Economists have been downgrading oil exporters’ risk scores in recent weeks, but there might be worse to come if spot prices and petro-currencies continue to fall.