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Its acquisition of Citi’s retail banking business in the Philippines has proven to be a challenge. It has put pressure on the bank’s capital buffers, while Citi’s high-end customers have shown a preference for international players.
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Bank of Cyprus’s decision to shift its listing back to Athens also shows how far Greece has recovered.
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When Piyush Gupta was named chief executive of DBS in 2009, the Singapore lender was going nowhere in particular. He gave it drive and direction, buying assets around Asia and transforming it into the world’s best bank. A series of tech outages put him in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, but Gupta will leave DBS in March with his head held high and his legacy intact. His capable and charismatic successor Tan Su Shan, the first woman to run southeast Asia’s largest bank, has big shoes to fill.
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The Siena-based bank has a better bill of health and is once again a target in Italy.
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New accounts targeted at low-income customers reflects the reality of intense competition in the sector.
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BBVA’s bid for Banco Sabadell didn’t appear to be going well when its share price slumped after the announcement. Then Sabadell rejected the offer despite the substantial premium to its own share price.
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The standards-setter has come under fire for announcing plans to allow companies to offset Scope 3 emissions as part of net-zero targets. But this kind of compromise has always been inevitable.
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First investment-grade debt capital markets started to pick up. Then it was high yield and now IPOs, as well as announced M&A
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President Javier Milei campaigned on cuts – and that is what he has delivered. But like all extreme diets, the approach is unsustainable. Time to rethink the plan.
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The newest ESG trend in retail banking might be a niche offering for now, but all banks will have to take it seriously someday.
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There are sensible elements to CEO Slawomir Krupa’s plans for Societe Generale, but their communication needs attention.
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Diego De Giorgi’s arrival as Standard Chartered’s CFO coincides with a shift away from asset shrinkage and a “final push” on digital transformation.
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Even after the rally on its latest restructuring plan, investors still value the UK bank at such a wide discount to book that management must consider radical action.
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The hard graft of integrating Credit Suisse still lies ahead, leaving UBS as a concept stock and hopeful investors looking through the efforts of the next three years.
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Banks need to start quantifying the legal risks of both climate action and inaction.
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New entrants spur breadth and depth in the country’s capital markets.
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Restrictions may come at a cost as MSCI considers developed market status.
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At the start of 2023, analysts sized China and liked what they saw: an economy reopening after three years of Covid isolation, and ready once again to roar. Nothing of the sort has happened and corporates and institutional investors are now fleeing the market in droves.
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Thailand wants to give almost every adult in the country money through a digital wallet. It’s an interesting step towards bringing digital finance to the mainstream.
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Climate change is real and so are the EU’s disclosure rules.
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The local sector is in good shape to weather a short-term conflict. If the war drags on and spreads throughout the region, however, the position is far less clear.
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Rakuten needs money – and lots of it – as its mobile telecommunications arm continues to burn cash. But it is running out of things to sell, while its debt profile is miserable.
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A $3.5 billion deal attracts $36 billion of demand, answering the question of whether Swiss banks can return to this market after Credit Suisse's collapse.
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While no charges have been laid against the Adani Group, a new Sebi rulebook addresses a key concern that came from the January stock-market controversy.
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KVS Manian has been overlooked in favour of ex-Barclays man Ashok Vaswani. What does it mean for one of India’s finest banks?
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The Singapore regulator MAS has set guidelines for banks transitioning to net zero. Unusually, it cautions against moving too fast.
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Pressure is growing on Japan’s self-imposed caps on government bond yields. Positive rates must be around the corner, but what will that mean for banks and public debt?
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While foreign investment in China has fallen, supply-chain shift is a different story. Rather than transferring their main production away from China, manufacturers are cultivating deep regional supply chains across Asia and beyond.
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Record sustainable finance issuance will still only get you so far.
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Even as the industry pleads its solidity, accidents keep happening.
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MUFG’s vast balance sheet has the potential to make a considerable difference to Japan’s net-zero ambitions. But the bank won’t be pulling back from polluters, arguing that money needs to flow to where emissions are, not away from them.
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The Lebanese diaspora has come home to pump fresh cash into the country’s economy, but the resulting price surge is a further blow to the lira-earning population.
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Slawomir Krupa may yet turn around Societe Generale. But it won’t be by shock and awe.
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A Citi survey of family offices finds some unsurprising things to say about the worries of the wealthy – inflation, interest rates and geopolitics – but discovers a shocking lack of preparation for succession planning.
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Beneath the Great Game geopolitics of US-Vietnam relations, there are some intriguing possibilities in the detail.
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Working together, regulated banks and direct lenders may prevent the coming default cycle from turning into a full-blown credit crunch.
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A debate in Australia arguing for the liquidation of the sovereign wealth fund has relevance to the global fund community.
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A handwritten note brings down the curtain on a 38-year journey for bank founder.
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Two new platforms show how India is building on top of its digital foundations.
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Good things could be in store for Libya if harmony at the central bank spreads to the government and sovereign fund.
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The Kingdom’s government has announced that international firms – many of whom are based in Dubai – that want to work with the state will need to base their regional headquarters in Saudi.
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The activist shareholder highlights concerns about a former poster child for private equity ownership of banks.
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Regulators forced banks to skip dividends during Covid, but let them make up payouts later on. They should now do the same for AT1s or risk that market failing.
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The global disclosure recommendations don’t stand a chance against mandated regional regulation.
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Banks are not waiting for loans to stop performing before they sell them.
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If Olam Agri’s planned dual-listing IPO goes ahead in June it will have a bit of everything: a Singapore-Saudi listing, geopolitics and sovereign funds jostling to defend their nations against strain in global food security.
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JPMorgan has cleaned up in a deal that sees the regulators waive their own cap on 10% deposit ownership.
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Pouncing on a firm with lots of corporate broking relationships at the low point for IPOs is a smart trade.
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Proceeds raised in the first three months of this year were 99% lower than the amount raised at the start of 2021.
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The Credit Suisse deal may have merely accelerated Hamers’ anticipated departure.
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The failure of venture capital’s favourite bank is bad news for a sector reliant on new injections of cheap capital to sustain loss-making growth.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank’s recent interest in a bid for Standard Chartered and an ill-fated investment in Credit Suisse by Saudi National Bank have put the spotlight on Middle East banks as potential acquirers of international firms.
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It has been over a decade and a half since a Chinese financial institution bought or invested in a Western counterpart. Beijing sees the West’s banking system as incomprehensibly chaotic and messy, and its own – albeit flawed – as a bastion of stability.
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Recent events call into question most of the core assumptions behind the rules designed to keep banks safe through a liquidity squeeze.
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UBS’s integration of Credit Suisse will be a long and uncertain process, but keeping the latter’s Swiss universal bank may mean the deal eventually comes good.
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Bankers have been at pains to stress how different the world is today from the dark days of 2008: higher capital; more liquidity; lower credit risk and all that. But while individual banks may be safer than they were, collectively they arguably now face a worse existential crisis. Societies face awkward questions about how they value the utility of the banking sector – and how they should pay for it.
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HSBC runs towards the storm as others are fleeing it.
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The EU green bond standard is understandably broad. But because of this, the limits between sustainable and transition finance remain unclear.
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Don’t expect a flood of IPOs, but there are still placements across Asia Pacific.
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A month ago, First Abu Dhabi Bank said it had looked at Standard Chartered but decided against a bid. Now, it is believed to have changed its mind. What has changed?
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Some issuers are grabbing the opportunities offered by a new capital markets year. Others would do well to face reality sooner rather than later.
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It seems difficult to convince investors that higher bank profits are sustainable.
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Asset managers are spooked by mandatory disclosure regulations coming into force in January. This is good news for the anti-greenwashing campaign, not so much for biodiversity lovers.
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On December 1, EU member states agreed on a general approach for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The final text shields banks from their full responsibility to prevent environmental harm, thanks in part to France’s post-Brexit ambitions.
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The first nine months of 2022 have seen investment banking revenues plummet globally.
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The World Cup is set to kick off in Doha on November 20 against the backdrop of recession, war, inflation and rising interest rates elsewhere.
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Asia’s central banks have fought hard to protect the value of their currencies this year as the dollar has soared. But each of them has a limit to their appetite for that defence.
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China, the US, Australia and Japan are all conducting a curious courtship with Pacific nations, hoping to build trade relationships, climate resilience and security agreements.
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For one, it brings power to its digital operations, for the other a much-needed injection of funds. But it doesn’t change a grim operating environment.
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Clearing up after the government’s mess will only provide a short break in the repricing of UK risk.
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China has in the past felt compelled to accept the terms of IMF programmes in struggling nations without due consideration of its own views.
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The pandemic and the war in Ukraine have brutally exposed the fragility of global supply chains.
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As the world’s biggest investment banks prepare to report third-quarter earnings in October, the signals are bad across the board.
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Anti-ESG boycotts are unlikely to cross the Atlantic.
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Bank of Cyprus has its quirks – such as a sanctioned oligarch as a large shareholder – but it is far from the only European bank with good potential still shunned by mainstream investors.
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Chinese investors are buying bonds issued by local government financing vehicles as fast as they’re printed – due to a cratered property sector, a lack of other buying options and a perception it’s a safe asset class. But analysts warn LGFV defaults are imminent and could result in a wave of credit events.
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The government is prepared to take drastic measures to reduce the nitrogen produced by livestock. But as farmers resist being pushed out of a profitable sector, the dispute demonstrates the cost of turning climate agendas into a race to cut emissions as quickly as possible.
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In a desperate effort to catch the next boom in assets with no fundamental value, institutional investors are hunting for new ways into crypto – and asset managers seem only too happy to supply them.
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A just transition should protect smaller firms from paying the price for the carbon emissions of larger ones.
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While Germany fires up its coal-burning power stations once more, it’s almost as if the country itself is protesting.
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Will higher rates today come at the price of more pain tomorrow?
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Companies that publicly commit to net zero by 2030 need to be held accountable for those commitments. That won’t happen until their carbon footprint becomes publicly available data.
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The idea of capping the price of Russian oil and gas exports sounds good in theory, but it might be better to test methods for energy rationing.
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Stress tests mean that banks must assess their own climate impact. The glaring data gaps will close as the science progresses and methodologies evolve.
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The first three months of the year have been tough for many investment banking business lines, but Europe’s banks are putting up a good fight against the might of the US firms.
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The Swiss bank is still paying for its misdeeds, but this might be a taste of what’s to come for others.
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The pressure for a short-term boost to ROE might force Bradesco to re-evaluate its insurance portfolio.
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Crédit Agricole’s purchase of a 9.18% in Banco BPM could have benefits, even if it doesn’t presage a full takeover.
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Private equity’s relationship with the Spac asset class? It’s complicated.
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A combination of geographical position and commodity strength is working in the country’s favour.
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Corporates want to improve sustainability in their supply chains, but, if anything, the barriers to doing so are getting worse.
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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.
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The first month of 2022 has seen not so much a mean reversion as a collapse in investment banking revenues. Investors must hope this won’t continue.
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The rationale behind a bank buyback can be different in emerging versus developed markets.
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Last year, social was top of the ESG agenda. Today, it barely merits a mention.
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Falls in bond and equity prices that followed the Fed’s hawkish pivot may just be the start, with the key test still to come in new issue markets.
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Southeast Asia markets enjoyed a record 2021. Can they build on this?
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BNP Paribas has in effect ruled out using the proceeds of its US retail bank sale on big bank M&A in Europe.
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Executive chairman Ana Botín will be under pressure after adverse ruling in Madrid
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Rebooting the financial system with a new currency could be what’s needed to give Argentina’s economy a way forward.
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One of the strongest themes of COP26 was the involvement of the private sector on an unprecedented scale. What happens next?
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The Morgan Stanley veteran is a sound pick, but is an old-school investment banker the right person to run the world’s largest wealth manager?
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There is no shortage of great ideas in digitalizing trade finance. If only all these systems and programmes would talk to one another.
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Perhaps it is not such a strange time to bet billions on Turkey’s economy.
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The Thai bank takes a step forward in its strategy to upgrade to a financial technology group.
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Intense competition for assets means that risk is being mispriced.
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The hard truth is that in much of the developing world, climate change still ranks well below more immediate concerns such as unemployment, disease, poverty and political unrest for households and businesses.
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A new pledge to use foreign reserves to buy ESG assets is one of many institutional measures in Japan. But the country has still not realized its green potential at the corporate level.
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China unveiled a plan for its first national parks on Friday, the final day of the COP15 conference in Kunming. It reveals the weight of Party concerns about pollution and biodiversity fragmentation, and their impact on political stability.
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The banking sector will never pick its way through the climate change jungle without harmonized regulations. To meet global risks, a global sector needs global standards. It is time for Basel V.
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With in-house asset managers in vogue, UniCredit chief executive Andrea Orcel might try to revisit the bank’s sale of Pioneer to Amundi.
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The rising price of oil and gas in this recovery underlines the need for much greater investment in clean energy.
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President Joe Biden’s next round of regulatory nominations might make this year’s surge of regional bank M&A short lived.
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Investors must understand the limits of regulatory efforts to measure climate stress at banks.
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Relief on dividends is not enough to propel the sector back to greatness.
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Brazil’s central bank attempts to redress the country’s woeful environmental reputation with climate-related stress tests.
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Evergrande is in trouble, drowning in debt and besieged by angry investors. It is bad news for shareholders, but it also raises harder and darker questions about investing in China.
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Other Latin American countries watch with interest as El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment gets off to a faltering start.
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DeFi is not a strategic asset allocation for mainstream investors yet, but big gains on cryptos and now high yields are drawing in the front runners.
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Deutsche Bank’s restructuring has not been thrown off course by the pandemic, but upside surprises can hide risks. Discipline will be needed to avoid the temptations of the past.
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No access to reserves, sinking currency, soaring inflation. Now what?
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The new SDR programme raises more questions than it answers.
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In September, the EU will issue bills through the auction system operated by the Banque de France for the French Trésor. But they will not immediately be a reference safe asset for European capital markets.
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ESG issues are part of the package with emerging market sovereign bonds.
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The European Commission keeps pressing, but a consolidated tape for bonds is not yet realistic – and firms should use AI analytics to create a quasi-tape.
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Many are still a long way from understanding the risk climate change poses to their businesses.
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The closer central banks come to hard design choices over retail central bank digital currencies, the less clear cut the case is to proceed with them.
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Banks received a mostly clean bill of health from the Federal Reserve’s latest stress tests. After a catastrophe like Covid, does that mean the sector is now safe?
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Bank CEOs do not like it, but the regulators are fostering competition.
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Naysayers were swift to condemn Lithuanian involvement in the German scandal.
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The Spac bubble has burst, and while European exchanges try to attract more deals, sponsors that listed in the boom will soon be struggling.
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With the acquisition of 80 east coast branches and a slug of online deposits, Citizens has added even more firepower to its national expansion ambitions.
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With Goldman and AmBank behind it, Malaysia aims further afield with lawsuits.
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Norway pulls out of West Bank-linked companies; Mubadala and Temasek invest in tech and energy.
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Other funds have shown how shareholder activism can work in financial stocks, especially in Europe.
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While doubling of profit at the investment bank stood out, it was not the bank’s only strong performer.
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In recent years, Brazil has endured famine, flood and pestilence. What’s next?
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Anthony Tan’s 60% control of the Singaporean fintech’s voting power shows what founders can get away with when spared the rigour of an IPO.
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If the current geopolitical tensions escalate into military action, even the most hardened foreign investors might start looking for an exit from Russia.
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Deals such as this leave deeper problems unsolved at Societe Generale and similar banks.
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Eagerly courted high-growth private companies will likely go to experienced Spac sponsors that know the route to high valuations.
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While a bid still remains for duration, the EU could achieve much for member states through more flexible borrowing in short-dated instruments.
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Activist investor victory may open the floodgates for shareholder challenges against Japanese corporate management.
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The data-cloud company has laid down an intriguing marker for its peers
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Deliveroo’s pending stock sale gives London a much-needed financial boost, but the global IPO market is becoming a straight fight between China and the US.
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IPO volumes for special purpose acquisition companies have been extraordinary since the start of 2020, but looking at them through the lens of future M&A is when they start to look most shocking.
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OCBC, UOB and DBS are among the first lenders in Asia to report 2020 numbers. They’re in surprisingly good shape.
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Milton Maluhy officially became Itaú’s new CEO at the beginning of February. He now faces the challenge of cutting the bank down to size.
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The Churchill Capital deal for electric vehicle maker Lucid was long rumoured. The share price fall when it was confirmed raises questions for regulators.
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The burgeoning industry demands instant experts, but everyone has to start somewhere.
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As the unlisted firm shrinks further in investment banking, its asset management business might IPO on its own.
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The bank's management is confident that pandemic losses will be contained.
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Mobilization of angry hordes is easy: those wishing to keep order are already being left behind.
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As policymakers worry about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, companies and asset managers are still working out how to make sense of them.
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The bubbles in crypto and small-caps look obvious, but most markets are over-inflated and it is a fantasy that banks are immune to the risks.
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The ECB is desperate for banking consolidation. Cross-border deals remain unlikely, but wholesale combinations may be coming.
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Less pain in the downturn means less gain in an upturn.
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More Asian entrepreneurs are going to New York to raise money for Spac listings. Should Singapore’s SGX seek to intercept these listings?
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Asset managers and owners are scrutinizing firms’ climate commitments like never before, as HSBC is discovering.
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After a good year in the banking industry for the many who are now looking forward to high bonuses, the threat of redundancy may seem remote. They should beware.
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Turkey has been the outlier in CEE this year for many reasons.
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Three presidents in a month isn’t enough to deter buyers of the country’s century bond.
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Jean Pierre Mustier and António Horta-Osório join Tidjane Thiam as the outsiders who rescued national champions before departing.
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Trade deal brings together 15 Asian nations; banks jostle to benefit.
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Pre-2008 M&A mistakes still stand in the way of a bolder bank purchase such as Banco BPM.
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The bond market could be the answer to financing better preparedness for the next global pandemic.
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As the world cheered news of a potential Covid-19 vaccine in early November, important steps were being taken on equitable manufacture and distribution as well.
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Brazil’s central bank launches a free instant-payments tool.
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One of the biggest capital markets stories this year has been the rise of social bonds.
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One of the solutions to the looming sovereign debt crisis could be to link financing to natural capital or climate adaptation.
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In a year of shocks and surprises, it’s hard to say where Mexico’s economic and financial performance ranks – but it’s up there.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder as rare deal attracts blue-chip names
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Italy’s biggest bank is floundering because it is based on a flawed premise.
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The outgoing CEO’s surprisingly good final results mean his successor has less room for manoeuvre.
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A bank with a profitable core business is a better bet than one designed to lose money.
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For the wealthy among us, it has mostly been a good pandemic.
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Chile’s new financial portability law came into effect in September, providing a huge shot in the arm to financial innovation in Latin America’s most stable banking market.
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Nothing in China is straightforward, but everything happens for a reason.
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Environmental, social and governance factors are financially material and the time for debate is over – unless you’re Trump.
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Rushing back to capital distributions won’t solve the sector’s deeper crisis.
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Of all the shocks that have buffeted the world economy this year, one of the greatest is the unquestioned willingness of governments worldwide to implement emergency financial relief at scale through the banking system in response to Covid-19.
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Governments need to step up to take a more proactive and innovative role in creating new markets.
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The EU recovery fund could deliver so much more than just a short-term boost to peripheral sovereign bonds and European equities.
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The markets have been very relaxed about emerging markets adopting quantitative easing – and that, in itself, could become a problem.
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Does the investment manager’s decision to shutter its Hong Kong office and relocate to Shanghai matter?
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Transaction is part of a trend for divestment from conglomerates to private equity.
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As expected, DBS and UOB reported dramatic year-on-year declines in profitability, but both were protected by their range.
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Agreement on dual listings positions Singapore to take advantage of US-China tensions.
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Everyone wanted radical change at Commerzbank, except the bank itself.
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Investors should stop pretending to care about ESG risks.
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It has become almost fashionable to write off the city. There are important reasons to believe it will endure.
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The Covid-19 crisis will accelerate monetization in the Gulf and see Abu Dhabi companies take equity stakes in the emirate.
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The country is losing the war on the coronavirus, as well as wasting the ensuing digital payments opportunity eagerly grasped by others in Latin America.
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Firms such as Deposit Solutions and Raisin are thriving, partly because Europe’s wealthy are so risk averse.
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If a sovereign wealth fund is a coat for a rainy day, then why is hardly anyone putting one on when it’s been pouring down since March?
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Will forcing all foreign firms to comply with US audit standards be the straw that breaks the camel’s back in Beijing?
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As credit losses hit banks hard over the next three quarters, one large failure could spark a systemic crisis. Consolidation is the only way out.
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Covid-19 may accelerate larger wealth managers’ global ambitions.
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Will it be back to business as usual as soon as lockdown restrictions are lifted?
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Collapse in Brazilian equities places a question mark over recent growth in retail investment.
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It seems a strange time to want to buy into Australian wealth management.
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The digital bank struggled to make an impact in a fiercely competitive field.
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For European banks, the tensions between communities, supervisors and shareholders needs careful navigation.
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Debt relief will free up essential funds but could be more punitive than helpful.
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Accounting standards that make banks provision upfront for all expected loan losses are encouraging exactly what regulators don’t want to happen at this stage of the coronavirus crisis.
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Negotiations are already under way between new lenders playing the loan-to-own strategy against stressed portfolio companies in rival managers’ private equity funds.
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Peru’s laudable coronavirus emergency measures won’t prevent its banks from taking a substantial hit – so what does that mean for less-well-run economies?
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It’s hard to blame anyone for looking for bright spots in these difficult times.
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China is pushing back against claims it could have done more to combat Covid-19; it could help itself by being more open about who owes it money – and clamping down on corporate shenanigans at home.
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It is hardly surprising that the terms of the World Bank’s pandemic bond have attracted criticism.
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The transition from Libor must be delayed to avoid pressuring coronavirus-damaged markets.
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Coronavirus Covid-19 knows no borders, but the economic support packages being put in place sadly do.
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Proof of the Swedish supervisor’s mettle raises questions about the Danish response to money laundering.
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The new government’s decision to go after Mercado Libre has the sector worried.
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The Fed has provided abundant financial support to the core government bond markets to little effect and may now need to ease rules on dealer banks.
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In giving aid to the US, the Jack Ma Foundation has an important message for Trump: close borders to contain a virus, not to contain China.
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The economic collapse now spreading as fast as the coronavirus requires credit channels to be kept open, but it needs precious funding to flow through them even more.
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The virtue of private capital is that it can withstand short-term volatility in valuations of assets held for the long term – and now is the time to prove that.
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Turkey’s strong private-sector banks are its biggest asset – undermining their profitability for short-term political gain will prove counterproductive.
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The big acquisition makes strategic sense as a bet on convergence between high net-worth financial advisory and self-directed trading, but M&A deals can founder on culture.
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Taking the top job at UBS is a great move for ING chief Ralph Hamers, but it’s less obvious for UBS.
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What was Italy’s biggest bank is giving free rein to Intesa Sanpaolo in Italy, making CEO Carlo Messina’s crown even more secure.
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DP World is planning to delist from the Nasdaq Dubai in a move that directly contradicts the UAE’s efforts to improve liquidity and diversity in its domestic exchanges.
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If Credit Suisse's board felt able to fire a chief executive who was not personally involved in spying, how will Barclays respond if its own CEO falls foul of a personal regulatory probe?
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The country needs to raise up to $4.5 billion in the international markets this year – and it won’t be easy.
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If the reversal rate is lower elsewhere, Italy and Germany can’t blame the ECB.
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For all the detail, the firm's long-awaited investor day doesn't end the questions about its strategy
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Some organizations, drawn in by irresistible fees, can’t resist working with high-risk clients – but technology might offer a solution.
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The investment bank will no longer IPO firms without diverse directors.
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Stand-off in Slovenia highlights politicians’ failure to tackle retail lending boom.
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Social housing bond comes just two weeks after mid-January economics report.
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Dealmakers are optimistic about a pick-up in large deals and outbound M&A from Europe this year, but the need for regional consolidation is more urgent.
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The asset manager has decided to pull investment from firms that don’t make sufficient progress on ESG disclosure while it routinely votes against climate-related shareholder resolutions itself.
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European regulators aren’t done with capital increases, especially for banks with unjustifiably low risk weightings.
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The year 2020 is going to be a big one in the world of failed trades.
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The needle may slowly be moving, but if we continue at this pace sustainable finance will still be a niche rather than integrated into all finance by the end of the century.
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The US firm is cutting just under 2% of its workforce, a reflection of what could be coming in 2020.
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It appears that basic errors rather than deliberate attempts to game the system lay behind Citi’s large miscalculations of UK RWAs and CET1.
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It seems the Australian banking scandal has caught up with Westpac.
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The country’s positive real interest rates shine like a beacon for international banks.
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The country’s Supreme Court overturns a curveball decision from July, to the benefit of distressed debt investors.
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Santander targets US retail deposits, as Goldman's Marcus finds online lending tougher than expected.
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The benefit of banking digitally is that customers have an immediate record of their spending, but they don't want an app that judges them at the same time.
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The ridesharing company’s foray into financial services is a questionable decision given the company’s dismal financial results.
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While the IMF highlights mispriced corporate debt as a systemic danger, so too is misvalued unlisted equity.
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Brazil should be careful of learning the wrong lessons from Chilean protests.
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Life goes on, but with extra security, incongruous graffiti and smashed ATMs.
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Why it doesn’t make sense that economic theory has kept natural capital as an externality.
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It was just what the regulators didn’t want: another surge in Sofr just as the timetable for transition away from US dollar Libor enters its critical phase.
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Deutsche Bank has taken the radical step of getting rid of its equities business, but thinks it can still offer ECM. Can it?
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Investors fearful of higher geopolitical risk and lower economic growth may be making a mistake if they consider private assets as the best way to generate returns.
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It might not happen, but if the US president were to stop Asian firms listing in the US, it would help a sector that has watched business slip through its fingers.
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Three-quarters of fund managers that responded to a recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey think that Mexico is going to lose its investment grade status.
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For those that work on them, every edition of Euromoney is special. We try our utmost to reflect the issues of the moment, to delve into the intricacies of the global financial system and never forget that our duty is both to inform and to entertain.
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Germany is famous for its engineering and infamous for its banks – but how does a $4 trillion economy get by with only one battered global systemically important bank? And is the answer also the problem or an example to follow?
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Europe’s banking sector’s investment in fintech and ESG merits more confidence than their exposure to negative European Central Bank rates might suggest. On these counts, the US banks may be lagging.
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Clubby governance structures in the EU are obstructing the fight against money laundering.
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Once a global wealth management (WM) powerhouse, DBWM no longer sits in the top 10 when it comes to AuM or stature.
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To date, the transformation of financial services through new technology has been a success story, but regulators are becoming more nervous.
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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?
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Introduction of the GST and demonetization mean Jaitley had a far bigger impact on Indian finance than his single term as minister would suggest.
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The locals in Brazil are enjoying their home-field investment banking advantage.
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WeWork’s pre-IPO financial disclosures have done little to quell disquiet over the company and its high-spending CEO.
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The gradual erosion of institutional credibility could prove more damaging to Turkey than economic and political shocks.
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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.
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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.
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We might just have reached the tipping point where regional banks have become the most important players on their continents.
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Cash borrowers want forward-looking reference rates to transition to after Libor and the market is struggling to come up with them.
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US-dominated investors make it harder for good banks to shine through.
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The much-needed conversation around fintech and responsible finance just got amplified by a power of 10.
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Letters from editor Clive Horwood and managing director John Orchard.
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Will a good Shanghai tech board be bad for Hong Kong?
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Shareholder proposals to support policies around climate change mitigation have had some recent wins that deserve celebrating.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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The deluge of bids for the debut issuers shows how reliant investors have become on primary allocation.
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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.
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Authorities are being more proactive in uncovering trouble.
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European bank mergers, especially in France and Germany, will stand or fall on the strength of staff relations.
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This month, Euromoney’s 50th anniversary coverage comes to the global capital markets.
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The sharp sell-off in credit in December and rapid recovery in the first quarter is a worrying sign of market dysfunction.
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However the situation plays out, it might be the smaller firm that ends up in the stronger position.
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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.
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Of all the global corridors of trade and investment, the one between Latin America and the Middle East is among the least travelled.
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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.
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There is a price to pay for postponing QT.
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Back-office hubs are at greater risk than London.
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Euromoney spent a day in February in Jakarta with Bank Mandiri executives past and present as they approach the bank’s 20th year of existence. In our own 50th anniversary year, it was a useful reminder of just how much things can change in a relatively short space of time.
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Some digital finance firms are taking liberties with client data. If they aren’t careful, they will lose their core customers.
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The bizarre communications management of the announcement prompts more head shaking than the actual event itself.
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Before it sets off into Africa, the international financial institution needs to look to its roots.
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They aren’t making headlines – for the right reasons.
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Berlin alone cannot change the costly quirks of Germany’s state-owned corporate banks.
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Restructuring shows vulnerability of highly indebted firms as cycle turns.
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Spanish-based group will struggle to overcome fall-out of recruitment U-turn, while Orcel’s situation raises broader questions for banks’ hiring and compensation strategies.
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Banco Santander’s board has botched the appointment of the bank's next CEO in the clumsiest way possible.
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By under-investing the vast funds raised at big expense to their end clients and then delivering shrinking returns, private equity sponsors are prompting customers to demand new approaches.
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The US market is due a shakeout as recession looms.
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In Africa, digital payments are still the future, not the present.
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Banks in the eurozone periphery have need, and some justification, for a new targeted LTRO.
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UniCredit’s €3 billion deal is a harsh demonstration of market dynamics.
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A lower-profile announcement caught Euromoney’s eye after the bluster of the G20 meetings in Buenos Aires.
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There's been a stay of execution, but for how long?
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Euromoney's feature on Hillhouse Capital lifts the lid on a style of investment that we all need to understand more clearly.
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Planned changes to the country’s fintech licensing regime could halt the growth of a burgeoning market.
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Analysts are reflecting uncertainty over the fallout for Goldman Sachs from the 1MDB affair, but with the stock taking a rare tumble below book value, markets seem to be pricing in much more bad news to come.
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At the tail end of 2018, banks still seem to be a long way from equality.
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Bulk up, or leave it to those with the finances and the commitment to the region to see if they can make a success of it.
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The Italian bank has bought some time with the ECB, but what it really needs is a white knight.
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Concerns over president-elect Amlo could see investors rethink their Mexico exposure.
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Large numbers of domestic retail shareholders mean that public ill-will in Spain hurts Santander and BBVA just as much as other more domestic-focused lenders.
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Roll-up acquisitions help to floor high-yield fundraising.
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Asset management IPOs are part of a growing trend to undo conglomerates.
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The murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has sparked condemnation of the kingdom’s leadership the world over, but as the dust settles after the Future Investment Initiative, what are the real-world effects, if any, of this crisis on Saudi Arabia’s banking ties?
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When the financial crisis hit and retail banks – desperate to cut costs – closed less profitable branches, they did so chiefly in rural towns, or low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities.
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A time of crisis is a time for action. At last.
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If Argentina’s financial crisis is going to turn into a banking crisis, as it did in 2001, that transmission will first be identifiable in the deposits data.
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Investors throw money at cash-burning issuers as concern over leveraged finance grows.
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All eyes will be on the next Brazilian president’s first steps towards a much-needed fiscal adjustment. That will likely be Jair Bolsonaro – who is well ahead of Fernando Haddad as the final round of voting approaches on 28 October.
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Rates are only rising because economies are doing so well and there is no need to panic, even if risk assets do sell off, at least according to the sell side.
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Momentum for Sibs is growing – which banks will take the lead?
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Isda needs to take action over manufactured defaults.
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No one is surprised by the money-laundering revelations from the Baltics.
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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.
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Absa’s efforts to establish wholesale-banking partnerships outside Africa, possibly with Barclays or Société Générale, underlines the importance of international links to African finance.
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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.
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Finally, some progress in Indonesian infrastructure – but familiar battles remain.
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As political headaches dog efforts to bolster banking integration, fostering European champions through mergers is the least of the single supervisor’s worries.
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Credit scoring changes could be the key to breaking Brazil’s interest-rate burden.
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Banks must be front and centre for Europe to mobilize its financial system in the fight against climate change.
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The country has the right to join, yet EU leaders are stalling.
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Restricting Itaú’s purchase of XP is good for competition.
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Retail investors are pulling out of ETFs – or are they?
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Just ten years after the crisis, banks' confidence about regulatory easing is worrying
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While analysts focus on net interest margins and the turning credit cycle, there is an extraordinary risk hiding in plain sight.
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The British challenger needs to be more realistic about its future, with Brexit and other risks ahead.
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Financial services give good exposure to the region.
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It is easy to see why economists love second-pillar pension schemes. Making workers pay into privately managed funds not only addresses the issue of unfunded state pension liabilities, it also creates a ready-made institutional investor base that can support the development of local capital markets. If only it were that simple.
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Unbundling probe will confirm Mifid II distortions.
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Europe may not be enough after Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran deal.
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Loan margin pressures at the Dutch bank may be structural.
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Recent glitches at TSB and Visa hint at the strain.
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A wave of regional mergers will be the nail in the coffin of the small banks and credit unions.
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Good, sustainable returns for shareholders are finally in sight, 10 years after the global financial crisis.