Banking is a secondary need.

Efficient banks will win the digital race.

If you missed the US train, catch the one in China.

A UBS economist made an innocuous comment about swine flu in China, and five days later a belief among Chinese speakers that he used a racist term has led to him being suspended, UBS apologizing and it disappearing from a key Chinese bond mandate. Now what?

The giant of European banking in the 1990s.

Usefulness as necessity.

Banks must continuously adapt.

Master of the merger of the 2000s.

Medium-term plan targets same efficiency and little ROE increase, but client growth and new social motto please mutualists and Macron.

Digital banking blurs boundaries.

The relevance of history.

1985: The era when the City of London went global (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).

2008: While the GFC raged, Euromoney had an inside view as politicians on both sides of the Atlantic tried to save the banking system (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).

Space constraints in data centres, coupled with cost considerations, have encouraged firms to seek creative solutions to the challenge of getting access to the main liquidity hubs.

From the City desk of the Daily Mail to a park bench in New York, via conversations with the pioneers of the Eurobond market, Euromoney was the vision of its founder Sir Patrick Sergeant. He managed to create what is now a billion-pound business empire while reinventing financial journalism. His is a remarkable story.

Shareholder proposals to support policies around climate change mitigation have had some recent wins that deserve celebrating.

As technology spending escalates, financiers now face a temptation to reframe costs as an investment in future growth, safe in the knowledge that it is extremely difficult to check their assertions.

What do you give Russia's retired central banker?

The lack of a unified approach to circuit breakers in the FX market is said to be reinforcing loyalty to OTC trading and stifling enthusiasm for exchange-based activity, despite the protections such mechanisms can offer.

Taking blockchain proof of concepts into production is a slow process, but a new loan-servicing platform shows how banks could cut costs and improve service.

Banking and capital markets in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Africa have been transformed over the last 50 years, but the change in Asia is particularly breath-taking.

Metro Bank’s credibility had been in question for a long time – that is what made it acutely vulnerable to online attack.

Karine Hirn is co-founder and chief sustainability officer of leading emerging and frontier markets investment firm East Capital. She has been based in Hong Kong since 2010, where she heads the firm’s Asia operations.

As part of Euromoney's 50th anniversary coverage, we profile some of the biggest names that we interviewed for our May CEE focus.

Euromoney speaks to 10 key figures who shaped the development of banking and finance in emerging Europe.

As part of Euromoney's 50th anniversary coverage, we profile some of the biggest names that we interviewed for our May CEE focus.

Leszek Balcerowicz served as minister of finance in Poland from September 1989 to December 1991, and again for three years from October 1997. He was governor of the National Bank of Poland from 2000 to 2007.

As part of Euromoney's 50th anniversary coverage, we profile some of the biggest names that we interviewed for our May CEE focus.

Ilhami Koç started his career at Isbank in 1986. He was chief executive of Iş Private Equity between 2001 and 2002, before returning to Is Investment as chief executive in 2002. Since November 2016, he has been chief executive of Turkish insurer Anadolu Sigorta.

Well-capitalized, liquid and digitally sophisticated, banks in emerging Europe today are far from the clunking incumbents and fly-by-nights of the post-socialist era. A fragmented, diverse and politically volatile region is a challenge for smaller banks – is a new wave of consolidation on the way?