The FDIC is reporting fewer failed banks but economic data suggest there are more to come.

As domestic equity markets grow, Wall Street firms will lose their dominance of new issues.

Some investors in European high yield are getting angry about deal terms but greed means little will change.

Is investor generosity towards Dubai justified?

Case highlights the often dysfunctional relationship between Hong Kong’s issuers, investors, exchanges and regulators, and how urgently reform is required.

Plenty of schemes are being floated for how Greece might secure relief from an unsustainable debt approaching 165% of GDP and likely, before long, to require an annual interest payment equivalent to 10% of GDP, mainly to foreign creditors. Costas Meghir, professor of economics at University College London, described this as an “annual blood-letting”, in a debate at the LSE last month with Herakles Polemarchakis, an economic adviser to the prime minister of Greece, and Nicos Christodoulakis, former Greek minister of finance and economy.

The European stranglehold over the headship of the IMF needs to be replaced by an appointment by merit alone

South African leadership in African markets is over; but it holds a lesson for the continent.

The region’s economic growth is healthy but over-reliant on the rest of Europe. Asia beckons.

Technology has changed the game forever. And it is costing the banks dearly. They are returning to an old idea to defend their corner from the predations of high-frequency traders. The answer to the erosion of business may lie in a trick from the equities market: dark pools. Is PureFX back on the table?

Having spurned AIG’s approach, the New York Fed is under pressure to achieve top dollar.

Tiny adjustments on inputs can produce big benefits on capital ratios: the temptation to manipulate is obvious.

The country faces more than a liquidity crisis; a fiscal restructuring of the economy is required.

The fee hiatus left by Fannie and Freddie will be filled. But not just yet.

Authorities in the US and China must clamp down on reverse merger fraud.

Growth in high-yield market funding heightens risk on weaker credits.

Institutional investors have been poorly served by most platforms. Mergers won’t make much difference.

Growing demand for Russia’s energy exports should not divert the country from diversifying its economy.

Tight restrictions on the new Chinese FX options market might lead to a slow start.

After omitting an outright sovereign default from its latest banking system stress test, the EBA must set a high capital ratio for banks to pass, or risk losing all credibility.

When, a few decades into the future, we cast our minds back to the early years of the 21st century, how will China shape up in historical perspective? Moreover, how are we likely to view the country’s leaders in these fulcrum years: Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, president and premier from 2003 to 2013?

Over the past year, Euromoney has written often of the generational shifts in the economic and financial balance of power between the old world and the new. Many of the world’s biggest banks are pinning their hopes for growth on such shifts, and express nothing but excitement at their prospect.

The country’s leaders and financiers are looking to build a unique gateway into Latin America.

Morgan Stanley is seeking out the niche in the wealth management business that used to belong to Merrill Lynch.

Investors are learning to price in factors such as autocracy premia and remembering that oil and democracy rarely mix easily.

The country should not be held up as a model for other peripheral sovereigns to follow.

The bank finds that it can’t have its cake and eat it.

Is the Brazilian real overvalued? Is there a credit bubble? Is Brazil headed for a correction?

According to the heads of the world’s largest and most successful global private banks, the main driver of revenue growth for 2011, and for several years to come, will be rich individuals in Asia and Latin America. So adamant are they that this is where growth lies that the top-10 global private banks aim to add a combined 1,000 or so employees in those regions over the next 12 months.

Orascom’s fund-raising shows that no matter where business comes from, financing power and expertise is still in the developed world.