The awkward truce in Brazil between XP Inc and Itaú broke down in a very public way in June.

Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon’s decision to back a rival to Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may come back to haunt him.

A complex investment in Wirecard by Deutsche Bank veterans now working at SoftBank has effectively compounded the eventual embarrassment for Germany Inc from the failure of the online payments firm.

The long lines that have appeared outside reopened retail stores will not be enough to stave off the inevitable crisis in commercial real estate.

Banks promised greater clarity on expected loan losses with their Q2 results, which are now looming – but they are unlikely to provide it.

International diversification counts for little in a pandemic, so shares in Sweden’s Handelsbanken have done better than most other lenders in Europe – but its loan book faces a stern test.

The saga of ESG data looks promising, but the questions about its usefulness for investors drag on.

A new law prohibiting the return of banks to their former owners will unlock international funding for Ukraine. But is it really the game changer some are claiming?

BlackRock’s contract with the Federal Reserve to support the corporate bond market leaves the world’s biggest asset manager with no room for governance error.

Investors looking to profit from – and hedge against – credit deterioration due to Covid-19 will need to pick their spots when fighting the Federal Reserve.

There is a plausible recovery scenario that would enable Latin America to exit the crisis on a better path than it was on before.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority may struggle to show anything explicitly wrong in the awarding of recent equity mandates.

Lessors and bondholders had little choice but to keep Norwegian Air alive, but bigger losses will come as the industry gets used to its new normal.

India's national ID and financial inclusion system creates the rails on which food and financial aid can reach some of the most vulnerable in society. But its rigidity in a crisis is a weakness.

Weight a business towards structured products, and life can quickly get uncomfortable.

The sustainable finance movement needs to manage the risk to its reputation, as Jeff Gibbs highlights in his documentary.

The German constitutional court wants limits on ECB sovereign bond buying when the real question is whether it can do enough to stave off sovereign defaults.

Breathless reporting of the details of the Argentine government’s offer to bondholders tends to presuppose there is doubt in the outcome.

Revolvers could be the debt Achilles heel of cash-strapped corporates.

Central bank corporate credit support is helping to cut debt costs for borrowers such as Netflix. A government put option won’t cure all the problems looming in the credit markets, however.

Bank balance sheets are ballooning and regulators are just fine with that.

Even banks with resilient technology must think differently about how to make their systems fit for the years after the coronavirus panic fades.

Central banks in emerging Europe have started buying local government bonds in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Has quantitative easing arrived in the region? And, if so, will it work?

Just when SSA bankers were getting used to a market supportive of deals again, Germany has surprised them with a change of approach.

The coronavirus Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the need to build better consumer financial resilience – bank efforts to support personal savings and debt reduction will have a greater impact than writing cheques.

The number of cashless transactions is rising as the coronavirus pandemic limits the use of physical cash.

It might be too much to say the country was bouncing back before Covid-19 struck, but it was beginning to look a bit better. Not now though.

Most European residential mortgage-backed securities deals can absorb the hit from payment moratoria for now, but junior notes are at risk if the crisis persists.

Essential state support programmes for bank credit to SMEs raise questions about sovereign debt sustainability that need quick and credible answers.

Private lending vehicles that are structured to maximize fees are looking dangerously fragile, and mismarking of asset values could spark legal disputes.