The Swiss bank is still paying for its misdeeds, but this might be a taste of what’s to come for others.

The pressure for a short-term boost to ROE might force Bradesco to re-evaluate its insurance portfolio.

Crédit Agricole’s purchase of a 9.18% in Banco BPM could have benefits, even if it doesn’t presage a full takeover.

Private equity’s relationship with the Spac asset class? It’s complicated.

A combination of geographical position and commodity strength is working in the country’s favour.

Corporates want to improve sustainability in their supply chains, but, if anything, the barriers to doing so are getting worse.

Western governments hope Russian citizens will blame the regime of president Vladimir Putin and seek change. That is a gamble.

Why do Saudi Arabia and Malaysia still overwhelm every other state in Islamic asset management?

It’s rare to see a sovereign fund backing a digital bank before its launch.

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.

The rationale behind a bank buyback can be different in emerging versus developed markets.

Last year, social was top of the ESG agenda. Today, it barely merits a mention.

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.

Southeast Asia markets enjoyed a record 2021. Can they build on this?

BNP Paribas has in effect ruled out using the proceeds of its US retail bank sale on big bank M&A in Europe.

Executive chairman Ana Botín will be under pressure after adverse ruling in Madrid

Rebooting the financial system with a new currency could be what’s needed to give Argentina’s economy a way forward.

One of the strongest themes of COP26 was the involvement of the private sector on an unprecedented scale. What happens next?

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?

There is no shortage of great ideas in digitalizing trade finance. If only all these systems and programmes would talk to one another.

Perhaps it is not such a strange time to bet billions on Turkey’s economy.

The Thai bank takes a step forward in its strategy to upgrade to a financial technology group.

Intense competition for assets means that risk is being mispriced.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With in-house asset managers in vogue, UniCredit chief executive Andrea Orcel might try to revisit the bank’s sale of Pioneer to Amundi.

The rising price of oil and gas in this recovery underlines the need for much greater investment in clean energy.

President Joe Biden’s next round of regulatory nominations might make this year’s surge of regional bank M&A short lived.