March 2022
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FEATURES
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How Buffett’s Japan trading house bid paid off
Few could understand the reasoning when Berkshire Hathaway bought into Japan’s five creaking, antiquated trading houses in 2020. But a spate of record results has vindicated Warren Buffett’s decision. -
Could Itaú’s small bank in Argentina deliver big?
Itaú’s Argentinian firm is its smallest. Nevertheless, innovation in its retail segment could be a game-changer in the country – and potentially the region. -
Wall Street wants to disrupt private share trading
Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are muscling in on the booming market for private share trading – and potentially disrupting existing technology platforms. -
Banks miss out on the growth of embedded finance
Non-bank lenders are offering growing volumes of embedded finance both wholesale to merchants selling on e-commerce marketplaces and to their retail customers. -
Fintechs set to shake up Mexico’s financial services sector
Citi’s decision to withdraw from consumer banking in Mexico demonstrates the extent to which fintech players have transformed this market. How prepared are the other incumbents to take on the competition?
OPINION
OPINION
LEADERS
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Western governments hope Russian citizens will blame the regime of president Vladimir Putin and seek change. That is a gamble.
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Why do Saudi Arabia and Malaysia still overwhelm every other state in Islamic asset management?
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It’s rare to see a sovereign fund backing a digital bank before its launch.
COLUMNS
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In just a few years, the New Eurasian Land Bridge, which conveys rail freight between China and Europe, became a key part of Beijing’s fading Belt and Road Initiative. Thanks to sanctions levied against state operator Russian Railways, that vital trade link threatens to be disrupted – and possibly severed.
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Decades of work have been put into building Russia’s financial system. Putin’s war is destroying it overnight.
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The spectre of 2003’s global research settlement is looming over the world of equity block trades.
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Until recently, poor nations joined the Belt and Road Initiative to secure access to funds flowing to the vast infrastructure project. Then the funds started to dry up. Does this presage a full-scale financial pull-back from the world by China?
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Toshiba has unveiled a new restructuring format, but its roster of activist shareholders would much prefer the business be taken private.
MACASKILL ON MARKETS
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