Bank backstop fund competes with private equity; doubters say it should be four times bigger.

BCBS wants greater comparability; new risk weights worry bankers.

After a tour of the leading lights of Silicon Valley, this bank CEO wasn’t so sure tech giants like Apple and Amazon really wanted to become banks

New Basel rules are set to ramp up the capital burden of Rabobank’s dominant franchise in mortgages and SMEs – assets it previously treated as low-risk. Chief executive Wiebe Draijer tells Euromoney how he is overturning the Dutch mutual group’s corporate structure and business model

Every cloud has a silver lining, and private equity firms are pretty good at finding them. Is that why they are now targeting crisis-hit Brazil? Have they learnt from their poor recent performance?

July 7, 2014 loomed as a normal business day for Yulia Vyalova, PrivatBank’s branch network boss in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region.

Assailed by conflict and politics, Alexander Dubilet admits that the task of running Ukraine’s biggest bank is complicated. But he insists that PrivatBank can cope with the loss of large parts of its network and dismisses rumours about secret loans and the need for state support.

As other international banks take flight from Latin America, Canada’s Scotiabank is aiming to add scale. Will it succeed where others have given up? Or will it come to regret the risks inherent in a contrarian strategy?

As Goldman Sachs released the worst first quarter results by a leading US dealer in April, it placed a video discussion with Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff in prime position on its corporate website.

Goldman Sachs had a logical, humdrum reason to acquire $16 billion of deposits from GE Capital to boost its fledgling online retail operation, GS Bank.

DBS’s launch of a new digital bank in India provides a test case for a branchless model of banking in Asia that will influence a dozen other markets in the years ahead.

WebBank of Salt Lake City, Utah; Cross River Bank of Teaneck, New Jersey; NBT Bank of Norwich, New York and Comenity Capital Bank of Columbus, Ohio: these are hardly household names. But their involvement with the new breed of online marketplace lenders has arguably been far more important than that of the likes of JPMorgan and Citi.

In May 2015, UK upstart Metro Bank forged an alliance with marketplace lender Zopa, the first such tie up in this market and a potential blueprint for other UK challenger banks to take on the high-street incumbents.

The fintech darlings of online lending are becoming victims of their own success. Questions over loan performance and industry structure have put the young sector firmly in the regulators’ sights. What started out as a market known for its transparency is becoming increasingly complex, not least through the growing use of securitization and involvement of the biggest banks and asset managers. Marketplace lending needs to grow up fast.

Trading the weakest link; firm ‘needs restructuring’.

Euromoney highlights six of the strongest key innovations in Islamic finance from the last 12 months.

The Shariah-complaint finance sector has been growing strongly, but only in a few jurisdictions and with limited product diversity. As oil-derived liquidity flows dry up in its core markets in the Gulf, what can it do to fix its lack of international reach?

Specialist small business lender grows fast; more banks seek to white label its offering.

If digital payment providers share the cost of building new networks, they might profit handsomely from high volumes of low-value payments between two billion people unserved today by the world’s conventional banks, and become a new testing ground for fintech.

Norwegian fintech company aims to put small investors into investment ideas normally reserved for hedge funds.

From the debris of multiple crises, Martin Blessing has overseen a quiet return to stability and moderate success at Commerzbank, just as the entire European banking sector hit the skids once more. In his last major interview before stepping down as CEO, Blessing looks back on his tumultuous eight-year tenure.

Citi JV opts for Hong Kong for IPO, but should it have gone six months ago?

State-backed Cassa Depositi e Prestiti's (CDP) mission to jumpstart the Italian economy has been met with scepticism. CEO Fabio Gallia tells Euromoney why he is convinced it will succeed, while fears over Italy's NPL conundrum and bank-restructuring saga refuse to abate.

Acting for now as a secure exchange between conventional and cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, Stockholm-based Safello is developing what it sees as a ground-breaking transaction browser.

As evidence emerges that start-ups led by women make more money for venture capitalists than those led by men, a new platform aims to help women entrepreneurs get funded.

In illiquid markets, information leakage can be highly damaging. Zeroflows wants to make it easier for investors to find the other side of the trade without betraying intentions to a multitude of brokers.

Having attracted investment from Zoopla and with an Isa offering in the works, Landbay sees a big opportunity in marketplace lending for landlords.