Frequent issuers on both sides of the Atlantic are exploring new ways to concentrate their high-quality liabilities into fewer more-liquid bonds to avoid paying a premium as markets sell off.

Financial Conduct Authority lady sings the blues as RBS's GRG reality revealed.

Chance of Société Générale merger remote, but bigger European banks to emerge in ‘medium term’.

The damage done to mid-cap equities coverage by unbundling research is ever harder to ignore. It will not be easy to lower this self-imposed barrier to improved capital-markets access for fast-growing businesses in Europe.

The utility’s sustainability performance will partly determine the cost of servicing its new bank credit line, with any savings going to charity.

European banks are investing in and using the tools of an AI startup applying deep learning to syndicated loans, asset management and, soon to come, primary bond markets.

Lay-offs part of 'disciplined' strategy targeting growth in UK and US.

Banks in the eurozone periphery have need, and some justification, for a new targeted LTRO.

UniCredit’s €3 billion deal is a harsh demonstration of market dynamics.

The last thing Russia’s state bank VTB needs is another African mishap.

Italian banks and the government at risk of failure within 12 months; signs of a more reconciliatory attitude to the EU.

Technology companies are looking to create digital workers to help banks build leaner operations – but human workers have nothing to fear.

The role of quantitative traders in the FX market is becoming ever more significant, as the amount of business executed via algorithms continues to increase.

The amount of dry powder that private equity firms now have means they are sometimes putting even more than 50% equity into deals – it’s a huge cushion that is contributing to reckless lending behaviour in the debt markets. But are lenders taking too much comfort from a buffer that could rapidly disappear?

Long years of losses and scandals, and now new regulation, spell a break-up with European banks’ bedrock of support in their retail investors, who have often been their own clients. Read on for a guide to Dominic O’Neill’s story on their split and the deep implications for Europe’s financial sector.

Scandals and losses are ending the co-dependency between European banks and retail shareholders, highlighting the conflict of interest in relying on depositors for capital – and showing up a barrier to Europe’s new bail-in framework. A less parochial, more austere but more accountable era is just beginning.

A string of jumbo strategic corporate deals made 2018 one of the busiest years ever in M&A, but falling equity markets, slowing economies, rising debt costs and geopolitical uncertainties have now dimmed the outlook severely. M&A bankers hope that private equity buyers, with $1 trillion of equity to put to work, will pick up the baton and that activist investors will stop corporate executives from quietly jamming those takeover and disposal plans back into the freezer.

Jon ‘Mystic Mac’ Macaskill looks ahead at possible highlights for markets in 2019.

While others race for scale in the region, Société Générale has become the first of the big regional groups to dismantle its network voluntarily.

A new, unique end-to-end transaction reference is a big step forward in tracking cross-border payments, identifying hidden costs and improving payment speeds.

Two borrowers beat US pressure by tapping into demand with euro and renminbi sales.

UniCredit's CEO puts his money where his mouth is.

Sweden’s Handelsbanken was the perfect antidote to investors burned by the pre-2008 bubble, but investors are no longer so enamoured of its consistent strategy.

Bulk up, or leave it to those with the finances and the commitment to the region to see if they can make a success of it.

Under-investment in post-trade infrastructure is driving interest in distributed ledger technology as a means of reducing back-office costs.

The Italian bank has bought some time with the ECB, but what it really needs is a white knight.

Slovenian, Kazakh governments deliver on privatization promises, while price concerns scupper listing plans of Belarusian retailer Eurotorg.

Mettle starts digital-bank spawn from leading UK lenders; new IT system to enable more user-friendly design.

Investors worry that volatility in Italian government bond prices may leave some Italian banks needing to raise capital just as the markets close to them.

Large numbers of domestic retail shareholders mean that public ill-will in Spain hurts Santander and BBVA just as much as other more domestic-focused lenders.