A lack of regulation and standardization creates opportunities for businesses that can create a one-stop shop for all blockchain trade finance needs. So who is doing it?

Introduction of the GST and demonetization mean Jaitley had a far bigger impact on Indian finance than his single term as minister would suggest.

The locals in Brazil are enjoying their home-field investment banking advantage.

WeWork’s pre-IPO financial disclosures have done little to quell disquiet over the company and its high-spending CEO.

The gradual erosion of institutional credibility could prove more damaging to Turkey than economic and political shocks.

Goldman Sachs' latest results show it changing in two contrasting ways: one makes it look more like a bank than it used to; another less so.

The bank has retrenched, rebranded and grown since 2015.

For now, the world’s banks are nervously watching Facebook’s move into payments, but one day they may even come to depend on it for their funding.

We might just have reached the tipping point where regional banks have become the most important players on their continents.

Cash borrowers want forward-looking reference rates to transition to after Libor and the market is struggling to come up with them.

US-dominated investors make it harder for good banks to shine through.

The much-needed conversation around fintech and responsible finance just got amplified by a power of 10.

Letters from editor Clive Horwood and managing director John Orchard.

Will a good Shanghai tech board be bad for Hong Kong?

Shareholder proposals to support policies around climate change mitigation have had some recent wins that deserve celebrating.

Frustration is building quickly in Brazil. What was supposed to be the beginning of a credit cycle – and a structural improvement in long-term economic growth – is becoming just another false dawn.

A case by Hong Kong’s ICAC against an individual on bribery charges is another example of Asia-Pacific regulators targeting the person as well as the institution.

Banking and capital markets in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Africa have been transformed over the last 50 years, but the change in Asia is particularly breath-taking.

Ten years on from the crisis, Morgan Stanley was already a different animal, with a shift to half its revenues generated from wealth management – what will it look like in another 10 years? Maybe more like Bank of America or JPMorgan…

The 100-day mark of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has recently passed; no one – not even the government itself – pretended the time had been well spent.

The deluge of bids for the debut issuers shows how reliant investors have become on primary allocation.

Humanitarian crises are emerging market issues and local banks are the best way to distribute aid. Banks should make it easier and cheaper to get funds to them.

Authorities are being more proactive in uncovering trouble.

European bank mergers, especially in France and Germany, will stand or fall on the strength of staff relations.

This month, Euromoney’s 50th anniversary coverage comes to the global capital markets.

The sharp sell-off in credit in December and rapid recovery in the first quarter is a worrying sign of market dysfunction.

However the situation plays out, it might be the smaller firm that ends up in the stronger position.

The argument that India will be the first cashless society doesn’t take into account the country’s most vulnerable people and the cultural attachment to cash.

Of all the global corridors of trade and investment, the one between Latin America and the Middle East is among the least travelled.

The country is now in default on almost all of its foreign currency bonds; investors need to think ahead about the debt renegotiation to come.