Arunma Oteh has helped develop new financial tools to address the world’s most pressing issues – in an exclusive interview, she talks about the difference the capital markets can make and her previous career fighting corruption in Nigeria.

Cautious Halyk Bank has been largely immune from the upheavals that have shaken the Kazakh banking sector; will buying troubled market leader KKB bring an end to the group’s bull run or create a new regional player?

The speed with which Santander took on Popular has boosted confidence in the recovery of Spain’s economy and banks, but what are the implications of its high provisions for Popular’s NPLs in a banking system still awash in problem loans?

Komercijalna Banka was in urgent need of modernization ahead of a planned privatization – enter Alexander Picker, an Austrian who has made a career of bringing socialist-era lenders into the 21st century.

It seems counterintuitive, but the endless cycle of political turmoil in Brazil might be insulating the country from a crisis that is warranted by its perilous fiscal situation.

Ralph Schlosstein, chief executive of Evercore, is moving his firm up the league tables with an old-fashioned approach

September always sees a glut of conferences in Hong Kong and Singapore, and with them, an apparent competition to come up with the unlikeliest keynote presenter.

Bali’s Mount Agung is being watched closely by island inhabitants, holidaymakers… and the World Bank and IMF.

September brought Formula One to Singapore once again, and with it the usual draconian restrictions on advertising by anyone who is not firmly contracted to F1.

In early October, Euromoney accepts an invitation to Bloomberg’s inaugural ETF event, at which the future of these popular investment vehicles is to be chewed over in detail.

Asia’s disparate markets and economies have found common ground in the widespread adoption of digital technology. Starting with consumer clients, expectations are rising up the banking chain and banks need to keep pace.

The departure of SoFi founder Mike Cagney as CEO should serve as a warning against believing the hype about fintech firms without testing the self-interested assertions of their managers.

At first glance Euromoney’s global cash management survey 2017 results suggest that it is business as usual, but digging a little deeper into the rankings reveals that some regionals are setting new standards in quality of service.

A focus on clients with a strong connection to Switzerland allows the bank to forge particularly close relationships and deliver a quality service.

The bank has come a long way in the GTS business in a short time – it took the top spot in Japan last year, and the last 12 months have been about establishing itself in the rest of Asia.

It is a truism that technology is set to transform banking.

The firm has invested heavily in its GTS offering in recent years – this year’s rankings see it rise on a tide of high customer satisfaction with its suite of new products.

In the month when Jamie Dimon dismissed cryptocurrency as a fraud, there was a string of new breakthroughs in banking on blockchain and Euromoney caught first sight of a crypto investment bank.

The repolonization of the country’s banking sector may have hit its limit, but are foreign banks still interested?

Santander’s takeover of Banco Popular was certainly in the public interest, but did it break EU law?

China is leveraging its middle class to clean up its banks – an approach rife with moral hazard.

Private sector needed for alternative financing; outcome funders looking for greater efficiency.

Its mixed ownership reform cannot be applied to other SOEs.

Ex-Lending Club chief poised to retry securitization; technique ‘essential’ to online lending business.

One large bank bailout may be seen as a misfortune; two certainly raise some questions.

Lots of people seem to be worrying about emerging markets (EMs) – and no wonder.

Aside from the regulatory pains put forward as a reason for Barclays’ departure from Africa, there are other reasons why African banks are much better at serving local clients today.

The 20-year-old investment bank has jumped up the advisory league tables thanks to high-profile hires from top firms. It now regularly takes lead roles in the biggest and most complex M&A transactions. Rising revenues are funding international expansion. Its aim for the future is to become a top-five global M&A adviser. But, in many ways, Evercore is a throwback to Wall Street’s past.

Between 1997 and 2004, Peter Nicholl was governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina; he succeeded in establishing economic stability in a country ravaged by war, but how did a New Zealand central banker get the job in the first place?

As JPMorgan’s head of markets execution, David Hudson has an ambitious mandate to bring technological innovation and a willingness to fail to the heart of the investment bank, but why is he “obsessed” with Amazon?