The Thai bank takes a step forward in its strategy to upgrade to a financial technology group.

Intense competition for assets means that risk is being mispriced.

Is the best inflation hedge the asset you just bought? There is more at stake as prices rise than talking your own book.

A lawyer with a specialism in helping Chinese companies to float in the US is among the cast of characters working on Donald Trump’s Spac.

Questions over chief executive’s personal judgement finally end his successful stewardship of the UK lender.

The hard truth is that in much of the developing world, climate change still ranks well below more immediate concerns such as unemployment, disease, poverty and political unrest for households and businesses.

While regulators talk tough on stablecoins they must soon set rules for banks to hold cryptos on balance sheet to meet customer demands.

The world’s oldest bank lives to see another day, but the taxpayer – and the local workforce – will pay a heavy price

A new pledge to use foreign reserves to buy ESG assets is one of many institutional measures in Japan. But the country has still not realized its green potential at the corporate level.

We have reached the bidding deadline for Citi’s retail assets in Asia, and the field is becoming clearer. When transactions start being announced early next year, they are likely to favour those who not only offer top dollar but also promise to keep staff on and won’t cause a regulatory headache.

China unveiled a plan for its first national parks on Friday, the final day of the COP15 conference in Kunming. It reveals the weight of Party concerns about pollution and biodiversity fragmentation, and their impact on political stability.

The banking sector will never pick its way through the climate change jungle without harmonized regulations. To meet global risks, a global sector needs global standards. It is time for Basel V.

With local elections fuelling the political sensitivity of UniCredit’s mooted MPS deal, it will be even harder for CEO Andrea Orcel to secure both national support and investor returns.

With in-house asset managers in vogue, UniCredit chief executive Andrea Orcel might try to revisit the bank’s sale of Pioneer to Amundi.

Sovereign wealth involvement in football clubs has a chequered history. Saudi’s intentions with Newcastle are clearly about more than investment, but can these deals ever work?

Want to know what banks will be doing at COP26? Give them a minute and they’ll get back to you…

Gas price volatility is delivering profits to speculators. It is a reminder that carbon trading markets could face PR problems if energy dealers are viewed as big beneficiaries.

The rising price of oil and gas in this recovery underlines the need for much greater investment in clean energy.

A consensus that Evergrande’s failure will be more like the LTCM unwind than the Lehman bankruptcy could underplay ongoing challenges in hedging Chinese exposure.

President Joe Biden’s next round of regulatory nominations might make this year’s surge of regional bank M&A short lived.

Many initiatives have promised to crowd in private capital through the catalytic effect of their own seed investment. Will this one work?

Investors must understand the limits of regulatory efforts to measure climate stress at banks.

Relief on dividends is not enough to propel the sector back to greatness.

Sustainable finance and renewable energy are becoming more important for the French firm, as it reduces its emphasis on equity derivatives.

China faces tough choices in the months ahead. Make the right decisions and it can become the global leader in ESG, a country determined to shed its industrial past and embrace a cleaner, greener future.

Brazil’s central bank attempts to redress the country’s woeful environmental reputation with climate-related stress tests.

Evergrande is in trouble, drowning in debt and besieged by angry investors. It is bad news for shareholders, but it also raises harder and darker questions about investing in China.

Other Latin American countries watch with interest as El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment gets off to a faltering start.

From Beijing’s plans to overhaul its small-business stock exchange to Shanghai’s push to be a global financial services leader, legislators never seem to rest in China.

DeFi is not a strategic asset allocation for mainstream investors yet, but big gains on cryptos and now high yields are drawing in the front runners.