‘Budgie’ always made his passion for cycling clear during his banking career.

The results of the Euromoney Trade Finance Survey 2018 show the emergence of two very different trends: the sustained presence of the global trade finance bank, and the rising influence of regional institutions.

HSBC rises to the top of trade finance.

The impediments to providing more trade finance to emerging-market clients are well known, but that does not make them any easier to overcome. Could the ultimate solution be in turning trade finance into an attractive asset class for institutional investors?

Tucker and Flint must not squander Gulliver's legacy at HSBC

Outgoing chief executive was determined to leave HSBC without the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) continuing to loom over the bank’s entire business and reputation.

Attempts to refocus the global banking division led to culture clashes at an institution that is notoriously hard to bend to an individual’s will.

The moment has finally arrived – bankers have grown old waiting for it, but on Friday they learned they will soon be permitted to own majority stakes in securities companies in China. Good news for every international investment bank – except one: HSBC.

HSBC’s next chief executive must quickly show he’s the man to take the bank forward.

The conviction of former HSBC trader Mark Johnson for front-running a customer FX order could transform the way dealers hedge client trades – and how they communicate with each other.

At first glance Euromoney’s global cash management survey 2017 results suggest that it is business as usual, but digging a little deeper into the rankings reveals that some regionals are setting new standards in quality of service.

After years of discussion and an agonizing wait for regulatory approval, HSBC’s securities joint venture in China – the first to have majority foreign control – is approaching launch. Senior figures explain the process and what the JV will look like.

To Gordon French, head of global banking and markets for Asia Pacific at HSBC, Belt and Road is “a supercharger.”

Climate change finance for the V20 and other vulnerable states will need innovative thinking. It turns out plenty has already taken place, including a detailed proposal to bring funding to those who can’t raise it independently.

HSBC holds top place in both the global financial institutions and non-financial institutions results; global banks dominate but regional banks continue rise.

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Euromoney magazine has released the results of the 2017 Fixed Income Research Survey.

Banks are learning about the damage that being on the wrong side of environmental issues can cause.

Euromoney has never before given an award in Afghanistan, but the story of Azizi Bank is compelling. Formed by an ethnic business group in 2006 and owned by Dubai’s Azizi Group, it took over the Development Bank of Afghanistan from the central bank in 2009, then India’s Punjab National Bank in 2014. It is Afghanistan’s largest commercial bank, with more than 140 branches and a million customers, and employs 2,300 people, 17% of them women, which does not sound a lot but matters in Afghanistan.

No matter where head office is based, Euromoney’s best regional bank, HSBC, is fundamentally about Asia. In 2016, the region contributed $10.6 billion out of global profit before tax of $17.3 billion – two thirds of the pie.

Have HSBC and Citi found a way to cut costs and maintain revenues in Latin America? If so, local banks will not accept that quietly.

With Brexit now upon us, as warnings abound of the damage it will inflict on the UK economy and the country’s financial sector, Euromoney follows its instincts and puts two British banks on our short list to be recognized as the world’s best.

Euromoney names HSBC as the World’s Best Bank and Morgan Stanley as the World’s Best Investment Bank; UniCredit’s chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier wins Banker of the Year award.

World's best bank

Euromoney challenges Stuart Gulliver over his active management of the HSBC portfolio and why he has not exited retail banking in more countries, given that retail banking is a scale business, which HSBC lacks everywhere outside Hong Kong and the UK.

It might not have the same level of market presence across North America as some of its international competitors, but HSBC’s push forward in the region over the last 12 months has secured it Euromoney’s award for North America’s best bank for transaction services.

Stuart Gulliver’s six-year transformation of HSBC has created a global bank that works, rather than one that merely exists. And through that process, the bank has continued to deliver impressive returns.