ANZ wins best bank in Australia as it grew assets at a healthy lick during the awards period and posted an impressive return on equity. ANZ is also the most valuable banking brand in Australia, according to a recent survey. Last year, it posted a fourth straight year of record annual profit, this time with an 11% rise year-on-year to $6.3 billion.

In 1999 this magazine described the fight for best bank in Asia as a battle royal between HSBC and Citi.

Few houses have the wherewithal to be top five players across all asset classes in emerging markets. They should target opportunistic higher margin business.

Banks are learning to like what social media has to offer.

L’Roubi may be a chameleon when it comes to his sartorial mores but Bank of England governor, Mark Carney resembles a chameleon when it comes to his views on UK interest rates.

Expansion beyond their domestic market highlights the ambition of Nigeria’s banks, but their success will be hampered without African cohesion.

Latin America’s markets are as good as anyone can remember. If you’re an issuer, that is. Investors are not celebrating.

Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, has firmly rebuffed the bears and those who believed in him made a fortune with timely purchases of periphery European bonds and stock markets.

The spillover from the proposed voiding of state guarantees on subordinate debt of Austria’s Hypo Alpe Adria could hit bonds of other banks across Europe.

Banks find the grass is greener with dedicated environmentally friendly bonds.

“I’ve got tickets for the world cup final. My boss was on the phone asking me about that and I told him that it was a client event I had booked in six years ago. It was probably a mistake. He pointed out that I didn’t work here six years ago”

“What’s so bad about being good at financing? Are our critics saying that M&A advisory is a skill but that financing is not? Trust me, you can be bad at financing. You can read the markets wrong, be too quick to commit or not commit fast enough. Having the best read on where your clients can raise the money to get a strategic transaction done, how quickly, in what amounts and with what degree of certainty is vital”

Universal banks have been trying harder than ever to make investment, corporate and transaction bankers work as one team to capture more business and deliver a better all-round service to their clients.

ESG bond to tap into demand for ethical investment; deal ‘sets new water mark’ on sustainability

AA slumps as PE exits; secondary buyouts down 25%

Tetangco talks up booming economy; asset bubbles the only danger.

Crown dependency aspires to triple-A; investors love sovereign with reserves not debt.

Authorities more strident on standards; wealth fund criticized for lack of due diligence.

Latin America’s fastest growing economy; international banks eye infrastructure projects.

Louis Dreyfus to repurchase 90% of deal; firm commitment IPOs under question.

US high yield investors add to demand; lack of supply will stretch into autumn

Funding levels ‘too good to ignore’; return of Russian supply no threat, say bankers.

Statement of intent rather than a need for funds; DMO defends choice of leads.

Turkey’s economy is growing fast and the country has a large number of infrastructure projects in the pipeline. But with its corporates also on the hunt for more funding, the country’s banks cannot meet all the demand themselves.

While other industries have embraced technology to win clients and become more efficient, wealth management and private banking are still finding their way. Euromoney gathered leading private bankers and nontraditional wealth advisers to discuss how the industry can embrace innovation

Last autumn, Danske Bank would have been an improbable candidate for best bank in Denmark. In September, new CEO Thomas Borgen replaced Eivind Kolding, who was shown the door after an unhappy tenure that had lasted only 19 months. One of Borgen’s first priorities was to inject a healthy dose of realism into Danske’s ambitions, cutting the bank’s ROE target for 2015 from 12% to 9%.

Competitors might try to write Goldman Sachs off, yet it remains the bank that the biggest companies head to for advice.

Clarity of focus gives Morgan Stanley the edge in helping clients to raise capital, its bankers say.

Rapid improvements in financial regulatory structures, increased levels of international investment and oil and gas production in Angola have sparked a rapid expansion of the country’s banking sector.

Substantial exposure to Russia and Ukraine combined with an unorthodox decision by the Austrian government in June to bail-in subordinated bondholders in nationalized bank Hypo Alpe Adria have not exactly helped bring stability back to the country’s banking sector. Indeed, the crisis in Ukraine and the government’s intervention have brought fresh turbulence to an already challenging year for Austrian banks. The bank however, that has shown greatest resilience, growth and development amid such a difficult domestic and regional environment for banking is UniCredit Bank Austria.