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.

After disastrous fourth-quarter results, Société Générale’s growth and profitability targets lie in tatters. Read on for a guide to Dominic O’Neill’s report on Séverin Cabannes’ efforts to refocus the corporate investment bank he leads, and whether or not this can recoup the group’s credibility.

Features Analytics applies artificial intelligence developed for medical use to spotting capital markets manipulation.

State-owned brokerage buys number two lender as total bill for bailouts tops $10 billion.

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.

Fitch sounds the alarm over unsecured consumer lending boom as household incomes stagnate.

Option trading has grown, while forwards and swaps have fallen.

Can the combination of core banking system replacement and a pioneering fintech programme help re-privatized lender MKB Bank leapfrog its rivals in the Hungarian market in the race for technological supremacy?

Its strong performance in Euromoney’s trade finance survey – despite its recent difficulties – has left some rivals scratching their heads. What lies behind its high placing?

Banks in emerging Europe have long outperformed many of their western peers in the race for digitalization – now a handful of pioneers are taking it to the next level and using technology to transform the banking landscape across the region.

Banks talk a lot about being technology providers, but while concrete examples are rare, ING has built something useful for bond investors.

UniCredit lifer and top Italian speaker to step down as number two; Khayat and Bisagni take wider commercial roles as Burton becomes CIB head.

Its 2018 results look bad, but the bank insists it is still on track for success.

Mark Branson, chief executive officer of Swiss financial regulator Finma, talks to Euromoney about how tax transparency has changed the trajectory of private banking and how far regulation can go in curtailing misconduct.

Jürg Zeltner, former chief executive of UBS Wealth Management, explains how the chief investment office was born out of chaos. Its introduction shifted not just UBS but the whole private banking industry to a model of professionalism.

If there was ever a risk of client advisers being replaced by robots, that danger has now passed. Today both robo-advisers and large wealth managers see the importance of having humans and technology work together.

A recent criminal trial in London has revealed how banking negligence enabled a multi-million dollar fraud at the now defunct oil company Afren. Read on for a guide to Olivier Holmey’s feature in the February issue of Euromoney examining the errors made and what the financial sector can learn from them.

A string of due-diligence shortcomings enabled the international fraud that sapped investor confidence in once-booming London-listed oil firm Afren – and has also now led to jail time for its two top executives. What lessons can the banking industry learn from the failings laid bare in the court proceedings?

The ability of AI to help retail FX brokers is quickly moving from the theoretical to the practical; the result should be better operational efficiency and better trader services.

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.

CEO says bank liquidity and lavish social spending hamper capital markets development.

Harsher-than-expected 100% coverage deadlines; no ‘significant’ impact on capital, insist banks.

A new strong customer authentication (SCA) regulation being introduced in September will change the payments landscape for online merchants amid a race for the most frictionless customer experience.

UniCredit regional division head says the UK crashing out of the EU is one of the main external risks to CEE this year.

Greenfield start-ups embedded within the core business might be the best way for banks to address their legacy infrastructure problem.

The operators of FX platforms deny that credit management has failed to keep pace with the development of automated trading – but they do acknowledge that the process could be more efficient.

Berlin alone cannot change the costly quirks of Germany’s state-owned corporate banks.

The rules of engagement between incumbents and fintech suppliers of new products, which banks then white-label to their customers, need review.

Having tested HSBC FX Everywhere on internal payments, the bank now aims to provide it as a platform service to clients.

Restructuring shows vulnerability of highly indebted firms as cycle turns.