Itaú strengthens position outside Brazil; equity lull a good time for hiring, says HSBC.

UBS rewrites rules on how to charge Swiss clients fees; cross-border banking woes to hit smaller banks.

State-owned bank becoming more competitive; Improves corporate and retail services

Amid a sharp slowdown in institutional trading volume of Japanese government bonds, Mizuho Securities and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities have held their position as the market’s leading dealers.

Emerging markets have bounced back impressively from an early-year slump that had threatened to turn into a full-blown crisis. But there are still plenty of questions about prospects for emerging nations and related banking revenues.

Rental income from repossessed housing is the next big thing in securitization. It will also be the acid test of what, if anything, the market has learned over the last five years.

Periphery banks fund without ECB help; bank-sovereign feedback loop is a worry.

Sir Patrick Sergeant, Euromoney’s founder, celebrates his 90th birthday in March.

€3bln for DCM, €3bln for FICC; UniCredit, Commerzbank and Crédit Agricole to benefit as funding shifts to bonds

Wealth preservation a growing focus; succession issues come to the fore.

Vikram Pandit, the former Citigroup CEO, who was ousted in 2012, is casting his net wide as he looks for ways to stay busy.

Euromoney recalls meetings with John Lefevre, in his former capacity as an Asian bond executive, who has been outed as the man behind the wildly popular @GSElevator Twitter account, which purports to tweet conversations between Goldman Sachs employees around the world.

Investment authority says bank implemented trades that it didn't understand, costing it $1 billion.

On Thursday evening, 300 private bankers from more than 30 countries attended the Euromoney Private Banking Awards dinner at Plaisterers' Hall in London.