Draft rules permit internal modelling; two sides to contract unlikely to agree.

Standardization of trading and clearing; OTC set to decline.

Deutsche Bank finally managed to sell its Las Vegas casino – The Cosmopolitan – a few days before announcing a €8 billion capital raising that it will use to double down on its bet that it can make a viable return from a full-service global fixed-income business.

Will make loan transfers less attractive for banks; technology a main driver of competition.

Markets rising as more investments kept at home; merger between main markets might occur.

Policy chief defends MENA role; Russian operations under scrutiny.

Joint investment fund undertakes new deals; Kazakhstan’s nationalized bank sell-offs set to go.

Reception for Greece deal “extraordinary”; Periphery has fallen prey to yield grab

J Safra Sarasin buys Morgan Stanley’s Swiss assets; Lombard Odier sees value in international growth

Barclays cuts its investment bank in half; Deutsche raises equity to protect market share.

The Las Vegas casino that Deutsche Bank finally managed to sell just before announcing its most recent capital increase – The Cosmopolitan – uses the catchphrase “Just the right amount of wrong” to tempt customers.

Jenkins is at a dead-end. This is what happens when you have no strategy and just muddle through instead of taking the necessary and painful decisions.

Chief digital and data officers are helping drive banking into a new technological age.

When Euromoney penetrated the economy and finance ministries in Kiev in late May, as well as the central bank, it found an atmosphere of unease and uncertainty. A supposed dream-team, which in reality is a collection of talented and driven novices, has a battle on its hands to keep Ukraine’s economy afloat. Can Kubiv, Schlapak and Sheremeta make the transition from protest to pro-growth?

A dangerous liquidity mismatch is building up in large parts of the investor base for high-yield bonds

Shades of Gwyneth and Chris: Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw consciously uncoupled from Simon Robertson.

“Sorted that allocation 4 u, big boy”. Is this the kind of email from a syndicate manager or fixed-income salesman at one of the leading bond underwriters to a favoured investor client that we can look forward to sniggering over?

A lack of rain to fill the dams that power Brazil is becoming a potential crisis. But as experts call for action to protect dwindling reservoirs the government refuses to act, and running the hydrology risk is becoming increasingly dangerous for it.

Diamond Bank is the latest Nigerian lender to issue Eurobond; dollar funding is necessary for the oil and gas sector.

Farhan Faruqui leaves Citigroup to join ANZ as head of international business.