Does this banker want to run rings around his clients?

An Austrian banker is unconvinced by visions of Britain as the new Singapore

A top executive at a leading European bank questions the credibility of the firm’s new leadership [March]

As always, investment bankers can immediately see the positives in any news

“Russia has been shat out of the capital markets”

A bank analyst is underwhelmed by a new choice of chief executive

One PR chief goes coy on the prospects of a traditionally convivial night during the IMF meetings after a recent change in senior management

Both tasks suggested by this banker seem equally impossible at this stage, to be honest

View results This banker’s pitch is long on enthusiasm but short on detail

The chairman of one of the world’s biggest banks apologises for the size of his company’s annual report, which his PR chief had just handed to us

After a tour of the leading lights of Silicon Valley, this bank CEO wasn’t so sure tech giants like Apple and Amazon really wanted to become banks

The CEO of one leading European bank has some sympathy for peers that are struggling to deliver positive results for their banks, and thereby raising questions about their futures

A top executive at a leading European bank questions the credibility of the firm’s new leadership

“He’s got an important client meeting in Australia. He’s setting off tomorrow”

“These are proprietary numbers and we don’t want to share them widely..."

“Best wishes for a great 20165!”

“Fitch could decide to do this but if they did we would simply ignore it”

“I’m absolutely delighted. He once told the CEO in a management committee meeting that he was like a second father to him. We all wanted to be sick”

"It’s got nothing to do with the market. It’s the fact that our f***ing governments haven’t got their f***ing acts together to make the necessary f***ing planning to address climate change and have spent 20 years p***ing in the wind wasting our money on lawyers in Paris"

“Let’s be frank: some of our political leaders get a little too excited”

Digital technology is set to change banking fundamentally in the years ahead. Euromoney has been writing about this a lot, while quietly wondering what it might do with a dollar for every time a grey-haired senior banker solemnly asserts it. Hence, no doubt, the email that pings into our inbox from Silicon Valley, promoting what looks like a new trade-matching or wealth-management service, called MillionaireMatch, which boasts that it runs a ‘no riff raff policy’. Quite right too, in this era of endless fines for market rigging and other offences.

“I keep telling him to grow a set of balls. I really shouldn’t be talking to my CEO like that”

“I have had meetings with any number of start-up direct-lending platforms, and although I think there is a small need for them, the vast majority of them are total bullshit and a crisis waiting to happen”

"Why not just give us one piece of paper saying banks can’t trade fixed income derivatives on a non-clearable basis?"

“If you take into account the deals that people took a run at but didn’t get over the line there has been a staggering increase in activity”

“Why wouldn’t I buy market share when it is so cheap?”

“Do not make any moves. You have been spotted”The slightly alarming message that popped up onto a blank screen when one of our correspondents tried to log in the press centre website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy & Trade

“I’ve got tickets for the world cup final. My boss was on the phone asking me about that and I told him that it was a client event I had booked in six years ago. It was probably a mistake. He pointed out that I didn’t work here six years ago”

“It’s pretty simple, but it’s mind boggling”