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Long-standing fears that the business model cannot work have hit Uber’s post-IPO performance.
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Citigroup president Jamie Forese and his Morgan Stanley counterpart, Colm Kelleher, are bowing out after contrasting quarters for their investment banks.
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Bank of America is reportedly excited about the potential of a tool it calls the Predictive Intelligence Analytics Machine, or Priam.
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Greater consideration has to be given to financing conservation. That includes questioning the financing of firms that produce pesticides and herbicides.
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The phony war has been long, but the first real battle has now begun in Brazil’s fintech space.
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Investors and issuers increasingly view leveraged loans and high yield bonds as practically one and the same from a risk perspective.
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Expectations of the valuation investors are likely to put on Uber when it lists are falling in line with the shares of its closest competitor that beat it to public ownership.
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Debate around the UniCredit-Commerzbank merger will centre on its impact on European banks’ share prices as Eurosceptic populism makes cost cutting more difficult.
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Cash will be around for a long time – but its role will change.
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Firms are funding social and environmental projects on the one hand and fossil fuels on the other – it’s time to show they care.
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Germany may conduct a strange experiment in state-sponsored investment banking if a merger between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank proceeds.
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The news that Garth Ritchie, head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank, is being paid €250,000 a month for extra responsibility 'in connection with the implications of Brexit' has been condemned in Germany, where politicians and union leaders are preparing to oppose a potential merger with Commerzbank and associated job cuts.
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Barclays doesn’t want Tim Throsby’s exit to be about Tim Throsby, but it is.
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From Deutsche Bank to Santander or ING, banks in Europe need to change with the times and accept accountability to a wider public, represented by their governments: as with weak capital, deficient ethics will only entail greater state control.
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Thursday’s announcement by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) that it is suspending the sale of its wealth business may trigger similar turnarounds by other big four banks. They have unexpected latitude after the Royal Commission.
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Monetary policy is now much more effective in Brazil and it’s having some interesting consequences.
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The 50th anniversary issues of Euromoney are forcing journalists to take a broader sweep of the issues we cover than the usual month-by-month perspective.
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Andrea Enria must open up the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bank data and supervision to scrutiny, but he faces resistance, and not just from banks.
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The rationale to accelerate cuts in its US investment bank is obvious, but an orderly withdrawal will be hard to execute.
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JPMorgan is trying to advance its master plan for global fintech domination with a discipline that is often lacking in a sector better known for wildly over-promising than actually delivering practical solutions.
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I am delighted to see two large sustainable bond issues from US banks already this year.
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Results week showed record profits at Singapore’s banks – but all three institutions had footnotes in the numbers that we should pay attention to.
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Handing Ukraine’s largest bank back to its former shareholders would amount to economic suicide – but speculation is rising that leading presidential candidates plan to do just that.
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JPMorgan says that its new dollar stablecoins are collateralized against client dollar deposits but it also emphasizes its own strong balance sheet as surety.
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The Greek banks’ bad debt reduction targets look eye-wateringly ambitious for a country that is only just getting to grips with a coordinated strategy to deal with the issue.
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Even though this business is notoriously sticky, Goldman Sachs’ entry into cash management business could shake up the industry.
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Looking back over 50 years, it is surprising how finance has changed its role in protest.
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Bank shares have bounced back from recent lows in early 2019, but investors tempted to bet on a sustained rally risk yet another year of disappointment.
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President Donald Trump has pulled off the almost impossible task of making America’s banks look good, if not exactly great, again.
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Branch closures in the name of digitalization, on top of wider woes in the retail sector, could exacerbate the kind of community breakdown that led to Brexit.