… but market capitalization apparently isn’t.

October 2018

October 2018

First Trump and now HSBC: welcome to Anonymous month.

What is it about digital banks in the UK that makes their owners want to give them somewhat odd names?

Asia offers a unique client set of young entrepreneurs; it also offers the challenge of new generations inheriting wealth with different expectations from their predecessors. That is a great opportunity, but it requires private banks to be nimble, thoughtful and technologically adept.

Momentum for Sibs is growing – which banks will take the lead?

The problem with India’s state bank mergers.

Isda needs to take action over manufactured defaults.

No one is surprised by the money-laundering revelations from the Baltics.

The resignation letter of Luis Caputo, until September 25 the president of Argentina’s central bank, is effectively the IMF’s receipt for the purchase of the country’s monetary policy.

The smackdown on greenwashing is coming – and ‘commitments’ to clean energy and environmental practices will not be enough.

Wall Street is turning into a self-driving market, long before automation transforms the physical experience of transportation.

Larger family offices are taking on the private equity firms as they focus on investing directly.

The Santiago Principles have elevated governance in sovereign wealth funds – but not consistently across its membership.

SC Ventures launched in Singapore; combines internal accelerator with venture capital.

Cut in the teeth of the financial crisis, MUFG’s stake in Morgan Stanley might well be the best deal of the last 10 years. Much of the success is down to the strong personal relationship between the firms’ leaders.

It is unusual for a Taiwanese bank: owned by foreign institutional investors rather than bankrolled by a tycoon or controlled by the state, it’s also on a roll, investing heavily in digital and expanding fast around Asia… but can it last?

GoPay is southeast Asia’s answer to Ant Financial. Its CEO comes with a background in the most micro level of finance: empowering village housewives to buy things to cook with. How will he build a business backed by the biggest names in global private equity?

As Mifid II beds down, its impact on the global fixed income research industry is already being felt. There are clear signs that investors are less reliant on research and are using fewer providers than before. As they start to cut costs to implement their own research budgets, providers must ensure that they are getting good value for money.

After a tumultuous decade, the country’s leading investment banks have finally recovered their confidence – and are bursting into new markets and products.

There are only two truly global, fully fledged cash management banks today, but the digital arms race in transaction services gives far more banks the opportunity to be world class.

Progress has been made on possible replacements for Libor as a reference rate for financial instruments. But they don’t all have the market thrilling to the prospect of a Libor-less world.

Part two: The fallout from Iceland’s banking crisis rumbled on for seven years. Members of the task force set up to deal with seemingly insurmountable problems arising from creditors – chiefly aggressive hedge funds – reveal the inside story of how, from a position of disaster, a lot of parties ended up in one of relative triumph.

Clydesdale CEO downplays IT risks from further mergers and targets RBS SME scheme for 2019.

One thousand pages tell us plenty about bank misconduct – but nothing new, and it’s all in the price. Asic is the most embarrassed institution in Australia today.

Jon Macaskill profiles the two new co-heads of investment banking at UBS.

A new CEO at the Spanish group was not expected, and neither was the name of the appointee. What will Andrea Orcel bring, and why did chairman Ana Botín turn to him?

Investment bankers hope for an autumn thaw after a spring freeze.

Fact or fiction – a forthcoming book on 1MDB raises new whistleblowing story.