The biggest dozen global investment banks have now reported their results: here's what their execs said about each of your businesses

Automating debt and equity new issues comes a step closer with $20 million funding round for a new regulated platform.

The bizarre communications management of the announcement prompts more head shaking than the actual event itself.

On January 25, after a record-breaking 35-day shutdown, a deal was finally struck to fund US government activity until February 15, but without another agreement, state agencies will again close down on that day. Equity capital markets bankers could face further disruption and precious few options for getting IPOs out of the door.

Harsher-than-expected 100% coverage deadlines; no ‘significant’ impact on capital, insist banks.

Equity capital markets bankers are having to get more creative with their advice to flotation candidates as the US government shutdown drags on.

A new strong customer authentication (SCA) regulation being introduced in September will change the payments landscape for online merchants amid a race for the most frictionless customer experience.

Companies waiting to complete securities offerings while Washington remains deadlocked have few options – and more risk.

New penalties from China’s bank regulator suggest a firmer stance on trying to bury bad debts, but it’s not just a bludgeoning.

The deadline looms for SEC-regulated investors to report on the liquidity of individual bond positions, but the more pressing question is the accuracy of fund valuations.

The regulator's conclusions could be announced within the next two weeks.

Aggressive accounting is as old as balance sheets, so why are we always surprised when inaccurate or bad-faith accounting causes companies to falter or even fail? Why is the dark side of accounting so hard to illuminate?

After a good result in its core areas, Barclays is setting its sights firmly on a better future for its investment bank in Europe.

New investigations into the troubled bank evoke bad memories.

Like most of its big US peers, Citi had a strong run in 2018

As Mifid II and shrinking margins pile pressure on single-country firms in Europe, Kepler Cheuvreux is an equities mirror for how Amundi has grown a multi-local asset management platform. Can other businesses replicate their practical solutions to Europe’s fragmented financial services market?

Resignations of directors after shareholders failed to approve a capital increase prompt an early intervention

Stop-loss orders have proved their worth again in 2018, protecting retail FX traders in particular from increased volatility in emerging market currencies.

UK corporate broking is the business that won’t die. There is no requirement for it outside the smallest listed firms, and corporates the world over manage without it. Yet UK companies almost always want the reassurance it provides. Is it finally under threat?

The damage done to mid-cap equities coverage by unbundling research is ever harder to ignore. It will not be easy to lower this self-imposed barrier to improved capital-markets access for fast-growing businesses in Europe.

What will Brexit mean for the UK, and for the rest of the EU? Bankers, traders, corporates and economists prepare for the economic impact of Brexit.

Lay-offs part of 'disciplined' strategy targeting growth in UK and US.

Long years of losses and scandals, and now new regulation, spell a break-up with European banks’ bedrock of support in their retail investors, who have often been their own clients. Read on for a guide to Dominic O’Neill’s story on their split and the deep implications for Europe’s financial sector.

Scandals and losses are ending the co-dependency between European banks and retail shareholders, highlighting the conflict of interest in relying on depositors for capital – and showing up a barrier to Europe’s new bail-in framework. A less parochial, more austere but more accountable era is just beginning.

UniCredit's CEO puts his money where his mouth is.

Is the Financial Stability Board's approach to judging systemically important banks working as it should?

It is one thing to develop alternative benchmarks to Libor, but, even as the clock is ticking, it is quite another to get issuers to use them.

A combination of regulatory requirements and commercial imperatives are driving interest in quality execution analysis (QEA), a subset of transaction cost analysis (TCA) that is a vital component in measuring FX best execution.

The recent decision to keep a mortgage-tax burden on clients rather than banks hasn’t improved the longer-term regulatory environment for Spanish lenders – or their own image.

Stress test results are meant to reassure on bank resilience, but they no longer seem to address banks’ key risks.