Leading Russian investment bank adds Israel to coverage list; India next target after Essar sell-side mandate wins admirers.

European Parliament drags heels over fast-tracking rules; Nykredit flips out in €500 million deal.

The chief executive of Deutsche Bank has deftly sold his sudden reverse on capital raising and selling Postbank, but if he fails to make good a striking promise to deliver strong returns from retail banking at home, his credibility will be lost.

Enforcement on the mainland remains a huge issue for the Hong Kong SFC, but its CEO claims things are changing.

Who’s leading the field? Who’s coming up on the rails? Which outsiders are worth ranking? The race is on for one of the biggest jobs in global banking… or is it?

As CEO Caffarelli targets private-sector levels of profitability, Brazil’s state-banking behemoth is aiming to improve capital and benefit from a better economy.

As if European commercial and investment banks didn’t have enough problems already with their US competitors eating their lunch, now one of the world’s biggest balance sheets has taken a seat at the table.

The Basel Committee wants to ignore bank internal ratings-based (IRB) models and rely on the leverage ratio to neutralize the impact on RWAs of their variability. The European Central Bank (ECB) view is: get better models.

Concerns about the independence of IPO research are nothing new, but the UK regulator’s proposals give it a chance to finish the job.