Some six million businesses were created in the US in 2012. The country is experiencing a start-up boom. What impact is the wave of entrepreneurs having, and how are the angel investor and venture capital industry adapting?

Michael Corbat looked like a safe pair of hands when he took over from Vikram Pandit as Citi’s chief executive. Known as a details man, a leader and strong manager, he will execute the strategy Pandit first laid out. But overseeing the rundown of Citi Holdings has given him a taste for better deploying scarce resources. And every business in Citi’s renowned 100-country network, the bank’s defining differentiator, will have to justify itself to his scrutiny.

Following the arrest of the main shareholder of Vietnam’s Asia Commercial Bank, Nguyen Duc Kien, the Vietnamese government has introduced a state-owned asset management company to clean up the country’s opaque banking sector. But how committed to change is Vietnam’s leadership?

Gulf states plug national reserves; stock market remains in limbo.

Tankan survey turns positive; largest buyer of southeast Asian companies.

Federal Republic prices $1 billion bond; Ghana returns; banks working on Kenya debut

Incoming governor holds bank’s first press conference; launches new refinancing facility.

Faced with increased capital requirements and regulatory changes, prime brokers are having to think of ways to become more efficient with their balance sheets.

Euromoney would like to thank all of the institutions and individuals who gave so generously to Action Against Cancer on the occasion of our Awards for Excellence dinner in London in July 2013.

US bank is showing signs of real momentum; Astute hires and capital strength key to growth

Schaeffler sells largest payment-in-kind bond; Investors reiterate maxim – caveat emptor

Wells Fargo has recently outpaced China’s biggest bank by market cap. But what about profits?

BlackRock’s sovereign risk index aims to provide an alternative credit opinion to the big-three agencies, Fitch, S&P and Moody’s, thanks to market and regulatory demand for alternative assessments of government creditworthiness.

Euromoney columnist Jon Macaskill imagines what an early draft of the SAC Capital head’s defence against insider trading charges might have looked like, as the SEC brings criminal charges.

Co-operative Bank bondholders are furious over a punitive restructuring plan after a recapitalization demand from the PRA. Could the more obliging treatment of SNS Reaal’s participation certificate holders offer hope?

Two years on from the start of the revolution, regulatory and infrastructure problems remain a headache for Libya’s banking sector. The revolutionary hangover means the nation’s economic potential might not be realized for a long time to come.