Conversion-free notes could be a watershed moment in the repair of European bank balance sheets.

Falling birth rates and an ageing population should force Asia’s financial institutions to face up to the possibility of a pensions crunch.

Pension plans are on the verge of a big move into riskier, illiquid investments to deliver promised returns; they might be better advised to curtail those promises.

A wave of lower tier 2 issuance will not deal with Russian banks’ strained capital levels.

Moody’s change of heart averts high-yield disruption in Europe… for now.

Restrictions and outright bans on short-selling shares, government bonds and credit derivatives were applied across Europe on November 1.

The benefits of lower Brazilian interest rates are not reaching the bank customers who need them most. Only greater competition between banks will alter this.

Jain and Fitschen will hope to find new strength around a core of fixed income, transaction banking and AWM.

Leading banks are slashing jobs. FICC looks likely to bear the brunt.

As Wall Street praises the departing Goldman Sachs CFO, questions about the CEO succession start to loom.

Regulators seem to have the upper hand in the battle over bank leverage ratios.

A chorus of commentators is urging speedy progress towards European banking union.

The resignation of the Shoman family could herald a turning point for the pan-Arab lender.

As bankers pack their bags and head to Tokyo for the annual IMF/World Bank meetings, the outlook for many is growing gloomier.

Charles Dallara, the departing managing director of the IIF, has transformed the organization into an effective global pressure group. It needs a successor who can maintain its relevance.

Often using new technology, banks are serving emerging market consumers in innovative ways.

Expectations are growing that Barclays’ new chief executive will dismantle the group’s investment bank, but that might be exactly the wrong thing to do.

Currency measures improve Brazil’s ability to pursue an independent monetary policy but are less successful in terms of asset prices.

Creating a system that relies less on rating agencies is complex but possible.

The maddening gold-standard proposal unwittingly unites private fixed-income investors, policy officials in Beijing and right-wing Republicans in one sense: the perceived weakness in the international monetary system.

Standard Chartered’s reputation has taken a knock from the explosive allegations that it illegally shifted $250 billion around for Iranian clients, but the bank stands defiant and looks set to fight the New York regulator’s charges tooth and nail.

Spain should have established a bad bank long ago.

Leading US and European banks in Asia should not deride the competition posed by Chinese banks.

Wealth management is helping bolster earnings but expanding into Asia comes at a cost.

HSBC’s failures to prevent money-laundering are a timely reminder of the hefty challenge of meeting US tax authorities’ new demands.

Inaugural slot securitization deal pulled from a market in no mood for complexity.

The best investment banks are turning their smartest employees to work on complex deals that actually deliver value to clients.

The rationale for Moody’s multiple downgrades of global banks was scathing but now, seemingly axiomatic.

China’s capital market liberalization has been cautious but a more foreigner-friendly approach is emerging.

The Institute of International Finance’s third annual survey of the enhancements banks have made to their risk governance frameworks in the aftermath of the financial crisis it is particularly timely coming so soon after JPMorgan spectacularly dropped the ball in its chief investment office.