The foreign exchange market has long been dominated by a select group of large banks, but Euromoney’s inaugural five-star FX rankings show a different set of banks may be providing the best client service.

Its appetite for gold remains insatiable, making local market participants increasingly frustrated with their limited influence on global gold price-setting. That is set to change.

As a self-described ‘insider-outsider’ at UniCredit, Jean Pierre Mustier has transformed the image of Italy’s biggest bank – inside and out – over an extraordinary 12 months as CEO.

Reversing the country’s reputation will take a long time. At least a start has been made.

The differences between two landmark access programmes for China’s capital markets need to be understood.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has irritated bankers with efforts to impose its own equivalent to US standards on leverage finance that may be doomed anyway.

There was no shine to the firm’s quarterly results, especially in fixed income sales and trading. They came in as the worst of the top five.

For all their boastful talk of becoming technology companies, most banks still run on core systems installed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Weakness in some passive strategies will be exposed; active managers hope to exploit market uncertainty.

In a yield-hungry world, what could be more appetizing to investors than a nation with stability offering 7% on its Eurobonds?

Here is the surprising news about liquidity in the bond markets: it’s getting better.

Consultant sold to own staff by NAB; Australian banks simplify and divest.

Everyone has a complaint about how Hong Kong’s markets are run, whether it is cornerstones, regulation, secret orders, or simply poor performance. How does HKEx get the environment right when everyone has a different idea of what is wrong?

UBS Americas head says cost of hiring too expensive; fees and salaries based around AuM rather than product.

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

The chief executives of US banks have spent so long complaining about regulations that they can scarcely believe their luck at the impending relaxation.

When Bill Winters wanted someone to revamp Standard Chartered’s beleaguered commercial and investment banking unit, he turned to HSBC veteran Simon Cooper. The key to Cooper’s success will be whether he can make the good remaining pieces work as a whole.

Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin all hope to pick up at least some of the spoils of Brexit, but replicating the advantages of London and the UK is not so easy.

Roman Lokhov has transformed BCS from a Russian retail broker to a full-service investment bank through a combination of technology, transparency and opportunism. Now he is looking to bring a new generation of Russian companies to the global markets.

While an increasing number of studies point to diversity having a positive impact on business performance, it needs to be coupled with inclusion if financial services companies want to see cultural and societal change.

No other sovereign wealth fund looks like Australia’s. Its chief investment officer reckons that, by some measures, almost two-thirds of the fund is in alternative or illiquid assets. Even so, it’s working.

Itaú BBA has long been a top investment bank in Brazil. Recently, rumours of high turnover, a changing culture and low morale have been rife. But Roderick Greenlees, head of investment banking, says the bank remains an undisputed market leader.

It is no understatement to say that the country is uncharted territory. The news is all good right now. But next year’s presidential election could return it to familiar, volatile territory.

Firm behind Atlante rubbishes private offers for Veneto banks; freed funds for MPS deal a ‘coincidence’.

While economists debate the likely path to reduction in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) swollen €4.2 trillion balance sheet, debt capital markets investors continue to buy long-dated bonds from sovereign, supranational and agency issuers.

A BNY Mellon study shows that big investors have finally accepted that the free-flow of collateral and ease of funding through repo they enjoyed pre-crisis will never return and they are now urgently seeking new ways to finance securities transactions that do not depend on bank balance sheets.

The US Fed’s journey to balance sheet normalization might not be as steady as many have assumed as inflation stubbornly refuses to play its part.

The pioneering fintech lender has grown fast by offering much needed working capital in hours – rather than weeks – to small business customers poorly served by the banks. But now the banks want their share of iwoca.

Vantiv's deal to buy Worldpay may be only the first of a number of high-profile takeovers in the payments industry as a fragmented market looks for global answers.

UK councils are investing in commercial real estate in an attempt to plug their budget gaps, driven by cheap borrowing from central government. It could spell trouble for the sector.