Banks are learning the damage that being on the wrong side of environmental issues can cause.

Deutsche’s CEO is telling the world just how much the bank still needs to do to improve, but struggles to make investors see the cost of fixing things as investing for the future.

When companies are allowed to borrow aggressively at ultra-cheap rates, things can turn ugly fast when trouble strikes.

Some of the blips thrown up by the launch of the new regime look like more than just teething problems.

Big data concerns and growing protectionism mean many Chinese deals will stumble.

The search is on for masters of the bitcoin universe to rival the bond traders who appalled and fascinated the public in the 1980s.

French bankers, like its politicians, do best when they promise less and achieve more – especially on the international stage.

An important step to confer respectability on trading in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies was taken in mid December when analysts from Deutsche Bank highlighted the role played in the emerging market by male leveraged foreign exchange investors from Japan.

Initiatives designed to attract investment to conservation got a boost at the end of the year.

The region’s political highlight of 2017 went well.

Marco Abele, former head of digital for private banking at Credit Suisse, plans to tokenize billionaires’ luxury assets so millionaires can enjoy them too.

Australian banks will face a year-long review into their conduct, but it’s not clear what they will expose that’s not already out there.

It won’t be long before banks are going to be answering to the public about their role in advising clients on tax avoidance.

Jon ‘Mystic Mac’ Macaskill looks ahead at possible highlights for markets in 2018.

The mood among bankers attending Felaban’s annual conference in November was conspicuously relaxed. Why relaxed? Well, business is good

As European banks are recovering, Nordic banks are facing perhaps their biggest challenge since the 2008 crisis. Their time as the darlings of the sector may be over

Anyone trying to keep track of attitudes to cryptocurrencies among Russian policymakers could be forgiven for feeling a trifle dizzy going into December.

DNB set up payments application Vipps just two and half years ago and has seen its in-house disruptor grow so fast that it has now spun it out and let it merge with other fintechs.

Attempts to refocus the global banking division led to culture clashes at an institution that is notoriously hard to bend to an individual’s will.

The UK regulator thinks that bond markets could step up their approach to reporting market abuse

Several trends emerge from the year-to-date league tables, and not everyone will like them.

The People’s Bank doesn’t want a crypto-free country – it wants to own the market.

Banks face lawsuits over pay inequity as regulators now take diversity into their own hands.

The conviction of former HSBC trader Mark Johnson for front-running a customer FX order could transform the way dealers hedge client trades – and how they communicate with each other.

Banks’ third-quarter results show fixed income trading still depressed and CIB revenues mostly down, but UBS is looking remarkably perky, especially in equity capital markets. What’s up?

Europe’s banking industry should pay attention to the woes of Provident Financial – its problems go to the heart of how to modernize a lending model without destroying the franchise, losing workers and racking up credit losses.

It’s obvious that Brazil’s government needs to reform pensions and get hold of social spending – easy to say, not so easy to do.

Barclays CEO Jes Staley has staked his future on the ability of four markets veterans to produce a fast turnaround in performance at the firm’s investment bank.

I don’t know why at first, but watching Donald Trump tell Fox News in October that because the value of the US stock market has risen by $5.2 trillion since he became president that “maybe in a sense, we are reducing the debt” makes me feel warm inside.

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