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LATEST ARTICLES
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The chance to acquire Citi’s Mexican business could attract some unexpected bidders.
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Wage inflation leads to substantial cost increases at major Wall Street banks.
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The trend continues for ever more dramatic accusations in US legal filings.
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Last year, social was top of the ESG agenda. Today, it barely merits a mention.
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Falls in bond and equity prices that followed the Fed’s hawkish pivot may just be the start, with the key test still to come in new issue markets.
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Policymakers around the world are rushing to protect retail investors from buying products that are less sustainable than they believe them to be. Why?
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Big numbers don’t always tell a story, but January saw one pop up in three different places. How they connect is intriguing.
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Southeast Asia markets enjoyed a record 2021. Can they build on this?
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Brought in to help clean up Credit Suisse, the high-profile Portuguese banker has been forced to quit to preserve what is left of its reputation.
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The decision to sell Citibanamex ends the ‘Mexican exception’.
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It took all of six days of the new year before the tone was set: XP Inc’s announcement of its acquisition of Banco Modal. The deal will need regulatory approval, but is being warmly endorsed by the target’s management and its minority shareholder, Credit Suisse.
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Bond markets must quickly adapt to a likely much earlier and faster reduction of central bank balance sheets.
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What does the future hold for Hong Kong, and by default for its overseers in Beijing? Euromoney’s China editor, stuck in lockdown in a Hong Kong hotel, considers the options.
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In the face of fierce regulatory pressure in Washington and Beijing, it is hard to see many, or any, Chinese firms going public in New York next year.
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BNP Paribas has in effect ruled out using the proceeds of its US retail bank sale on big bank M&A in Europe.
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Asset managers are following the well-trodden route of bankers in shifting from finance to politics.
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The momentum behind the loss-making bank’s IPO had become unstoppable by year-end, even as the range was eventually cut. It now faces intense scrutiny as a public firm.
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Executive chairman Ana Botín will be under pressure after adverse ruling in Madrid
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Rebooting the financial system with a new currency could be what’s needed to give Argentina’s economy a way forward.
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The controversy around voluntary carbon markets has deterred banks from getting involved. They need to worry less about reputational risk and more about the planet.
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Euromoney’s Mystic Maca has looked into the future and it’s all about getting things back to the way they were.
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The fiscal deterioration of Latin America’s former totem has more than just the pandemic behind it.
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One of the strongest themes of COP26 was the involvement of the private sector on an unprecedented scale. What happens next?
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It’s not just asset managers closing their books ahead of year-end that is behind the loss of liquidity in the most active fixed income markets.
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The Morgan Stanley veteran is a sound pick, but is an old-school investment banker the right person to run the world’s largest wealth manager?
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There is no shortage of great ideas in digitalizing trade finance. If only all these systems and programmes would talk to one another.
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Alexander Wynaendts has worked in insurance for a quarter of a century, but is not a stranger to investment banking.
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Perhaps it is not such a strange time to bet billions on Turkey’s economy.
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There was a time when Paytm was the epitome of rising digital Asia, but the dismal opening of its IPO suggests it and its peers are no longer market darlings in the eyes of investors.
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António Horta-Osório shifts more capital away from investment banking and into wealth management, while the executive team sells his risk management overhaul as a growth story.