The challenge has become a regular fixture in Singapore, an annual 5.6-kilometre run from the city’s National Gallery to its F1 Pit Building.

Who said marketing stands at banking conferences have to be dreary?

China’s landmark Belt and Road Forum – not, we are told, to be abbreviated as Barf – has been hailed as a success for the country’s sprawling infrastructure agenda.

The one-year anniversary of the UK vote to leave the European Union is fast approaching and still most banks clustered in London haven’t disclosed plans to relocate staff to deal with EU clients, senior management to answer to regulators, or even any support staff.

A survey released by index provider Coalition on May 24 revealed the grim state of FX business lines.

Tim Throsby needs to strike a balance between upheaval and stability.

What gated communities can teach us about gaming the system.

Steve Ashley, head of wholesale and global markets at Nomura, is bullish after the international arm of the Japanese securities house delivered a profit

This investment banker believes the importance of having relationship business all the way down the corporate ladder is limited when it comes to winning lucrative advisory mandates

Private equity funds specializing in distressed debt will strike a hard bargain before acquiring and recapitalizing troubled banks, but European state-aid rules make the alternative even less appealing.

The latest political scandal in Brazil spooked the markets, but didn’t bring them down. Why not?

European authorities deserve credit for pushing through reform of Slovenia’s banking sector.

Technology is an opportunity not a threat – international retail banks need to realize that.

Economic recovery encourages borrowers; fiscal consolidation revives eurozone entry talk.

Bedding down a six-sided merger domestically; international activity to be 20% of total book in three years.

Several banks write off Syrian operations; they continue to be big shareholders.

CEO defends international spread; returns to profit after capital increase, CoCo repayment.

After another tumultuous year for banking in Lebanon, the central bank governor discusses the political pushback against his actions, the potential impact of a new US law targeting Hezbollah and the prospects for his reappointment.

Czech group Home Credit has ridden the consumer finance roller coaster in Russia over the last decade. Now it’s betting big on Asia and even taking on China’s online retail giants.

The country’s biggest banks are working on the big data challenge. If successful, it could transform the industry and its performance. But quantifying the impact and differentiating between potential winners and losers is almost impossible.

Barclays has reversed course on the regional structure it put in place last year, with new investment bank head Tim Throsby putting a global stamp on the business and also paving the way to complete its previous expansion effort.

Imagine that you run investment banking in Europe for a sizeable foreign firm whose name still enjoys a little cachet from its heyday 20 years ago when it figured high in the debt and equity arranger league tables and which sought to invest in Europe and rebuild scale after the global financial crisis.

One year after its humiliating withdrawal from European equities, Nomura’s international businesses are humming. The Japanese firm is set to expand in emerging markets and in the US, while pivoting towards a bigger presence in risk, particularly credit risk. But it still faces its age-old conundrum: outside Japan, it is too big to be a boutique, but not big enough to be a global bulge-bracket investment bank. Can Nomura find a fitting new position as the entire industry restructures?

A large part of Nomura’s recent boost in overseas earnings came from healthy fixed income revenues in the US. It has struggled to replicate this in mainstream primary debt. Instead, it pushes its strength in structured solutions.

Quantitative easing has been the defining monetary policy innovation of the 21st century. With global economic recovery now seemingly robust, the challenge facing policymakers is to reverse this stimulus. This is likely to be fraught with danger, particularly in Europe.

The drive to integrate the European banking system has taken a back seat as regulators have become concerned at the lack of profitability in the sector. Can banking in the EU be sustainable without union and with so much onerous regulation?

As he approaches 10 years at the helm, Macquarie CEO Nicholas Moore runs a business quite different from the one he inherited during the financial crisis. Capital market risk has been replaced with steady annuity-style income – but he says innovation and individuality has survived the transition.

Macedo might seem like an odd choice to lead Portugal’s biggest bank, but the former health minister comes with impressive cost-cutting credentials.

The bank has lagged behind its retail-focused competitors in Europe and Latin America. That is changing, senior management say. The Spanish group is pursuing new growth and diversification – from fintech investments to core-banking experiments and new online platforms.

The top firms this year look like they haven’t moved in 18 years. How can nearly two decades of upheaval appear to have altered the rankings so little in Euromoney’s foreign exchange survey?