US banks have been notable for their reticence over consumer banking innovation for a number of years, and their silence is growing ever more obvious.

Once the preserve of risk-taking individuals, P2P lending platforms are now no such thing.

The drive away from the dollar and towards meaningful use of the kwanza could make Angola’s poor even more vulnerable.

Puerto Rico should have seen the warning signs three years ago, when the long-term investors moved out and the hedge funds moved in.

It is time for Brazil’s central bank to encourage some competition and shake up the cosy world of its domestic institutions.

Comparing countries with Greece is a futile exercise, which is also alarmist and potentially damaging. Let’s put an end to the lazy shorthand.

In establishing its sovereign wealth fund, Mongolia had a wide range of forebears to learn from. Singapore’s Temasek may not be the best choice.

Despite a tentative banking union, Europe’s champions today are mostly national concerns.

Tighter dollar liquidity will be bad news for emerging market banks and their lending boom of recent years is about to grind to a halt.

Lenders were offered a valuable real-life stress test in late August, when investor concerns about the Chinese authorities’ bungled response to slowing growth in China following the devaluation of the yuan led to plunging Chinese and world equity prices, slumping commodity valuations and spikes in volatility across currency and securities markets.

Five years on, Dodd-Frank is suffering from a quiet crisis of credibility.

Two successful IPOs should have been good news for the country’s markets – if anyone had bothered to tell the world more about them.

The looming criminal prosecution of a derivatives trader highlights the compliance challenges facing HFT firms.

The government has allowed what should have been a simple market correction to get the better of it.

Plans to involve the capital markets seem to be attracting the wrong investor – one who might not understand the risks.

Like everything else in Nigeria, investment banking will be hit by weak oil prices. Local players may struggle more than their global counterparts.

Banks are prepared to sit through a couple of lean years in emerging Europe’s largest market, given that it will bounce back eventually. They might not want to get too optimistic though.

Investment banking rivals may scoff, but HSBC’s Asia shift could prove a canny piece of business.

Only structural change, not tweaks, will bring a recovery across Italy’s banking sector.

US banks and issuers dominate global DCM to an extent not seen since early 2008.

BBVA is leading the drive for banks to change their business models.

This year’s Awards for Excellence review was an exhausting and exhaustive process. Euromoney received thousands of submissions from banks around the world.

George Osborne acknowledges that a bank levy based on global assets risks damaging the UK, but his solution might not appease HSBC.

The semi-autonomous Iraqi state is set to be the latest sovereign issuer despite its geopolitical quagmire – posing an allocation dilemma for yield-hungry institutional investors.

It is not without its challenges, but the economy is improving – steadily if unspectacularly.

Depressed oil prices mean that government revenue in Nigeria is sliding but raising revenue without alienating Nigeria’s most vulnerable will be a difficult feat.

Brazil’s economy must absorb a lot more pain before it starts to grow again. Until then, investors will stay away, and the deals won’t come.

California’s new treasurer picked his target when he made an example of the foreign bank but the domestic players have been warned.

Japan’s prime minister is trying to inject some dynamism into the country. Could inbound M&A business start to match the upturn in the outbound market?

Politicians have long been whipping up nationalist sentiment in Russia and Turkey. But now Poland is joining in on the act, banks and investors in CEE have reason for concern.