It’s not just asset managers closing their books ahead of year-end that is behind the loss of liquidity in the most active fixed income markets.

Alexander Wynaendts has worked in insurance for a quarter of a century, but is not a stranger to investment banking.

There was a time when Paytm was the epitome of rising digital Asia, but the dismal opening of its IPO suggests it and its peers are no longer market darlings in the eyes of investors.

António Horta-Osório shifts more capital away from investment banking and into wealth management, while the executive team sells his risk management overhaul as a growth story.

Is the best inflation hedge the asset you just bought? There is more at stake as prices rise than talking your own book.

A lawyer with a specialism in helping Chinese companies to float in the US is among the cast of characters working on Donald Trump’s Spac.

Questions over chief executive’s personal judgement finally end his successful stewardship of the UK lender.

While regulators talk tough on stablecoins they must soon set rules for banks to hold cryptos on balance sheet to meet customer demands.

The world’s oldest bank lives to see another day, but the taxpayer – and the local workforce – will pay a heavy price

We have reached the bidding deadline for Citi’s retail assets in Asia, and the field is becoming clearer. When transactions start being announced early next year, they are likely to favour those who not only offer top dollar but also promise to keep staff on and won’t cause a regulatory headache.

With local elections fuelling the political sensitivity of UniCredit’s mooted MPS deal, it will be even harder for CEO Andrea Orcel to secure both national support and investor returns.

Sovereign wealth involvement in football clubs has a chequered history. Saudi’s intentions with Newcastle are clearly about more than investment, but can these deals ever work?

Want to know what banks will be doing at COP26? Give them a minute and they’ll get back to you…

Gas price volatility is delivering profits to speculators. It is a reminder that carbon trading markets could face PR problems if energy dealers are viewed as big beneficiaries.

A consensus that Evergrande’s failure will be more like the LTCM unwind than the Lehman bankruptcy could underplay ongoing challenges in hedging Chinese exposure.

Many initiatives have promised to crowd in private capital through the catalytic effect of their own seed investment. Will this one work?

Sustainable finance and renewable energy are becoming more important for the French firm, as it reduces its emphasis on equity derivatives.

China faces tough choices in the months ahead. Make the right decisions and it can become the global leader in ESG, a country determined to shed its industrial past and embrace a cleaner, greener future.

From Beijing’s plans to overhaul its small-business stock exchange to Shanghai’s push to be a global financial services leader, legislators never seem to rest in China.

Bank of America struck a disjointed tone in its announcement that chief operating officer Tom Montag and vice chair Anne Finucane are to retire at the end of the year.

Credit Suisse is stacking its board with risk management experts, but banks need to do more than fight the last war they lost.

A tough-minded, independent thinker revered by many and disliked by some, Thomas Montag has been a dominant figure that will be hard to replace.

Bright people, information overload and impenetrable jargon: our ESG editor Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker reflects on her first 12 months covering a fast-growing sector.

Afterpay’s out-of-nowhere success has captivated Australia for some time, dividing the nation into fans and critics of the pay-later fintech. Now it is part of Australia’s biggest-ever M&A deal.

David Wildermuth, the new chief risk officer at Credit Suisse, may have much of the heavy lifting done by the time he arrives at his desk in Zurich.

JPMorgan wants to have fun being a disruptor, but persistently low valuations for even the strongest banks limit its options.

The big six US banks are releasing the loan loss reserves they built up in the pandemic. Where might this end? The answer could be surprising.

The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) is spurring talk of growth at Greek banks. But for their investors, it’s still all about last decade’s legacy.

Private equity is the biggest driver of what may be a record year for M&A and has led to a pushback from public shareholders that could raise prices.

There’s a clear role model for US-Japan tie-ups in New York investment banking. Can the new partnership between Jefferies and SMBC follow it?