Goldman's new incentive scheme for its top management has some curious quirks.

The country needs constructive criticism to pull it out of its stasis. But who will speak up?

Williams & Glyn fits a pattern of how mishandled dealings with the UK government and the EU have overshadowed the banks’ wider recovery. Now, as the end to an epic restructuring nears, Brexit begins.

The headline news in Brazil is always dramatic, often shocking, but never dull. Unlike its financial sector, which does little to excite international interest. Could that be about to change?

Deutsche Bank’s new-look bonus scheme looks a bit annually retentive.

John Cryan has swallowed a difficult pill in executing his U-turn – whether the patient will recover in the long term remains to be seen.

The Basel Committee wants to ignore bank internal ratings-based (IRB) models and rely on the leverage ratio to neutralize the impact on RWAs of their variability. The European Central Bank (ECB) view is: get better models.

It seems perverse to criticize a high-yield boom just eight weeks after it got started, but questions are arising over the fervour for new deals.

SoftBank’s $3.3 billion purchase of Fortress Investment Group could mark a shift into shadow banking that is as important as its much-hyped plan for a $100 billion technology fund.

Concerns about the independence of IPO research are nothing new, but the UK regulator’s proposals give it a chance to finish the job.

A US federal appeals court ruling on February 21 effectively ended a legal attempt by a group of hedge funds to stop the government from collecting billions of dollars of profits made by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in recent years.

Religious organizations are challenging corporations over climate change, while big investors stay mute.

As UniCredit goes from zero to hero, is Intesa taking the opposite route?

That is, if you are a foreign investor.

The political class is tainted with corruption. What a time to introduce some big reforms.

The country’s finances are in such a parlous state that it must treat the IMF and bondholders with all due respect to get the result it needs.

BNP Paribas said on Tuesday it wanted to be the ‘bank of the future’; it probably won’t be the last to do so, but it is certainly very far from being the first.

The rally in bank stocks seen after Donald Trump’s election victory had stalled by the time of his inauguration as president on January 20. Fourth-quarter results from US banks were also announced in January, giving bank heads a chance to pitch their prospects relative to competitors.

The finance industry continues to struggle with the disconnect between talk and action on diversity. Is it time for the activists to shake things up?

Indonesia’s reaction to a bank’s tactical call on its equity markets helps nobody, including Indonesia and its investors.

France’s low-growth and highly consolidated banking industry might appear rigid, but jealousies and opportunism are keeping idiosyncrasies alive and kicking.

For a non-US bank to be a success in the US, it has to get its ambitions right first.

It has come a long way since 2014, but policymakers must keep going.

Blythe Masters had what seemed to be a Hillary Clinton-on-election-night moment when Digital Asset, the firm where Masters is CEO, failed to win a role in the most significant blockchain application yet announced.

Reprivatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is high on the agenda of the new Trump administration – its close ties to the hedge funds that were hit by their conservatorship and subsequent cash sweep could explain why, and is just one example of the murky incentives that have followed Donald Trump into the White House.

As he steps down from the CFTC on inauguration day, Timothy Massad warns the new administration that wholesale repeal of post-crisis financial regulation would be a big mistake.

Big banks are finding it tough to be consistent around environmental standards. They need to try harder to address the conflicts and inconsistencies.

Banks are trying to rebrand themselves as technology companies. But even the ones at the forefront of the digital charge are relative laggards

Banking regulators have a remarkable ability to stop innovation in its tracks. But when they work in favour of the industry, amazing things can happen.

UK and US economic policy has changed tone since last year’s electoral rebellions. Markets should jump at the chance to buy into higher-yielding real assets, but politicians will struggle to make reality match their rhetoric on infrastructure investment