Elizabeth Warren is showing a unique ability to get under the skin of Wall Street leaders as the US presidential election season heats up.

Wall Street leaders alarmed by the prospect of a populist anti-finance president such as Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders were given some hope when Michael Bloomberg declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination.

Year after year, research highlights the gap between what impact investment consumers want and what they are being offered by advisers, banks and pension funds. The UK’s new Impact Investing Institute hopes to bring everyone to the table to change this.

Why does the tech behemoth want to provide current accounts for users? It’s the data, stupid.

The bank’s CEO and chairman are out, a week after allegations of AML failings that helped enable child exploitation.

A deluge of negative transatlantic headlines overshadows the achievements of Ukraine’s reformers.

Brazil’s currency hit an all-time low nominal value on November 18, closing trading at R$4.20 to the dollar.

Finance minister Olaf Scholz has laid out Germany’s negotiating position for the completion of banking union, a pre-requisite for much-needed consolidation.

Saudi Aramco’s intention to list aims to clear up any doubts wealth managers may have about investing on behalf of women, but it also draws attention to the fact that, despite reforms, the full inclusion of women in Saudi society is still a distant reality.

The US private label RMBS market is set to surge if Fannie and Freddie stop guaranteeing higher debt-to-income mortgages in 2021, but eager investors should approach the sector with care.

Crowdfunding platform Kiva is an example to everyone in finance who wants to make systemic impact.

Next year promises to be such an exciting year in banking that our resident soothsayer, Mystic Maca, couldn’t wait to share his predictions…

The political and regulatory backlash has driven leading payments companies out of the Libra association, but a new version of the revolutionary stablecoin may yet appear.

The bank has rejigged its historic numbers to reflect its new structure, but the result throws up an interesting glimpse of just how small its equity capital markets business will be in future.

A look at what fees Slack might have paid in a traditional flotation shows how talk of IPO banks losing out to direct listings looks misguided.

Consolidation in payments is inevitable, but while some believe that only those with state-of-the-art technology – such as blockchain – will reign victorious, that’s not the case.

IMF conversations positive but with a streak of caution.

Many thought the trade war would have derailed the promise by the CSRC to let foreigners fully own their mainland securities operations.

Clients have had a much easier time than their banks in Germany, but fintech innovation is creating ways for the likes of Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank to thrive, even in the country’s SME heartlands.

SoftBank and its roughly $100 billion Vision Fund face growing questions about their use of leverage and the size of stakes built in technology-related companies.

The fiasco of the failed IPO of WeWork has embroiled some of the most prominent figures in global finance, including SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son and JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon.

Sustainable finance initiatives are great, but now is a good moment to take stock of the progress on commitments already made.

The Seychelles will need to tackle its drug problem head on if it wants to develop a thriving blue economy and pay back debt raised from the first ever blue bond.

Advocating ESG while investing in one of the world’s largest oil companies is an uneasy truth.

As entrepreneurs seek to improve institutional-grade custody and security for trading in crypto assets, conventional financial market participants remain suspicious.

Road testing the likely economic and financial policies come the October general election.

The bid by HKEX for the London Stock Exchange is bold and has scale on its side, but faces regulatory barriers – and the fact the LSE has a different idea of what an exchange should look like.

The US Business Roundtable has changed its statement of purpose to indicate that shareholders’ ambitions for profits have to be balanced with society’s goals, but what is it that these chief executives plan to do?

Bankers in Europe have discussed pooling resources across different institutions for some years, as the threat from bigger US rivals has become painfully obvious.

As Europe’s financial conduct authorities get tougher, banks will be even less likely to support trade between the EU and states that are small and poor.