Regulators are attempting to restrict the use of the IRB approach to capital adequacy at large banks just as smaller players are lobbying to be allowed to adopt it.

The European Central Bank must take action, but with nuance, in its new regulatory framework for non-performing loans.

FSB chair Carney marks his own homework, awarding A* grades for the board's financial regulatory reforms – this is hogwash.

The world’s richest nations need to lead the way on transparency. The UK should be embarrassed that it hasn’t, especially when it comes to money laundering in eastern Europe.

Rising Libor rates and Libor-OIS spreads may result more from money market reform than increased risk in the banking system, but they still hurt banks’ P&L.

The country’s banking sector is the most undercapitalized in Europe, so French calls for a delay to new capital rules are growing.

Regulations designed to protect US banking consumers may instead be pushing the poor out of the system altogether.

New data show multinationals taking a lower chunk of regional revenue – and it’s going to get worse.

Singapore’s GIC has promised to expand in emerging markets (EMs) for years. The Vietcombank stake is a good way of doing it.

Singapore’s stock exchange isn’t going to get much more growth from domestic listings, so – like its equivalent in Hong Kong – it is seeking different asset classes and markets. Will Baltic Exchange make any difference?

All eyes are on the expected appointment of a new Reserve Bank of India governor, but nobody is quite clear why there needs to be a new one.

Could Lisbon make its two biggest problems one by nationalizing Novo Banco and merging it with CGD?

Italy’s banks cannot deal with their NPLs unless they have capital, but they are not being allowed to recapitalize until they have dealt with their NPLs.

So far bankers have considered platform as a service (PaaS) mainly as a way to free their own software developers from the constraints of relying on scarce in-house IT resources.

Asian banks are increasingly proving themselves to be much more than just volume-hungry lenders.

The key to getting a clients’ attention, and their business, is being good on all aspects of a particular product, rather than vainly attempting to achieve excellence in all products.

By trying to be different, a lot of the world’s biggest transaction services houses are starting to look remarkably similar.

Euromoney has decided on the best banks in Emerging Europe. But let’s also consider some editorial awards – for the good and the bad – that the strict criteria of the Awards for Excellence did not allow for

From Cyprus to Ireland, banks in Europe can boast some impressive turnaround stories. They now have the chance to help others and lead the wider transformation and consolidation that the sector so badly needs.

The country’s biggest banks are only just starting to feel the pain, and there could be far more to come.

Don’t commit capital to unprofitable clients? Check. Try to increase wallet share with core clients? Check. Find you’re covering the exact same group of clients as 10 other global firms? You’d better check.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Euromoney Awards for Excellence. They were the first of their kind in the global financial publishing industry. The nature of the global banking industry is constantly changing, and this year we made fundamental changes to the categories to reflect this.

Only in investment banking can incumbents welcome new competitors because they bolster margins.

From retail and investment to emerging market banking, regulatory technology is redrawing the global financial map. Data is the new capital, ideas are the new risk.

They might not like to admit it, but the decline in commodities prices could be just the impetus that the regions’ investment banks, and their capital markets, need.

The world’s banks are doing more than pay lip service to corporate social responsibility. But they need to go further and make their commitment part of the fabric of each institution.

The big beasts of DCM are regaining market share just as sovereign issuers are being reminded how much they need the expertise and risk-management capabilities of their relationship banks.

Wednesday’s decision by MSCI to delay membership for Chinese A-shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index serves a number of purposes.

Brazil might develop a more mutually beneficial equities market, but history suggests it won’t.

The old pan-regional banking model is under threat but that presents opportunities for new champions to emerge.