While regulators across Europe eye up – and in some cases replicate – the FCA’s regulatory sandbox, an EU-wide fintech testing platform remains far from inevitable.

EU-regulated exchange to launch a new blockchain platform for initial coin offerings (ICOs) and token trading.

Banks are booking big charges in the fourth quarter, but the domestic names are sitting pretty for the future as US taxes fall.

The luxury-asset investment platform is to raise funds by selling tokens that mirror participation certificates under Swiss law, with full KYC and AML checks on buyers.

The latest cryptocurrency price crash is shining the spotlight on the regulation of these borderless, digital currencies, but the rules differ wildly from country to country; global super-regulator IOSCO is set to make an announcement.

China’s latest effort to curb shadow banking involves applying Basel standards on banks: they must disclose far more of their exposure to previously unidentified counterparties. It’s good for the industry, but what does it mean for individual mainland banks?

Some of the blips thrown up by the launch of the new regime look like more than just teething problems.

Big data concerns and growing protectionism mean many Chinese deals will stumble.

The demands of post-crisis regulation mean that banks need to take a more flexible approach to the compliance function.

The spectre of collusion may not hang over the US wealth industry for much longer.

For the banking industry, 2017 was a time of trying finally to resolve issues of the past and avoid new mistakes, yet dig beneath the surface and it was also 12 months of intrigue and, sometimes, farce. Here are Euromoney’s alternative awards for 2017.

The Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) has heralded a decision to include one of its members in a working group looking at the replacement for Libor.

Primary debt capital markets have been remarkably slow to embrace technology. Vested interests are at play: lucrative underwriting fees will not be wrested from the banks without a fight. But automation is coming, partly driven by regulators looking into dysfunctional allocation.

No one doubts JPMorgan's global influence, but it still needs to fill some holes in its corporate bank

Global growth will be a key driver of currencies in 2018, a year in which the foreign-exchange industry will have to adapt to the strictures of Mifid II and a self-governing code of conduct.

The eventual impact of the revised capital rules will be less severe than bankers feared a year ago, even though many lament regulators’ pivot away from internal ratings.

Outgoing chief executive was determined to leave HSBC without the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) continuing to loom over the bank’s entire business and reputation.

Basel III – or IV, if you’re a banker – is finally complete, and if implemented harmoniously across countries, it could force banks to raise huge amounts of capital, but tweaks to the final proposals render them less harsh than many expected.

News broke last week of an intriguing insolvency petition in India: under the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, high-profile disputes are now commonplace, but what’s interesting here is it pits a Chinese policy bank against an Indian private-sector corporation.

The final recommendations for the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) have outlined a series of strict rules that would improve security, and have the potential to push for greater innovation.

After a surprise move to make reports more transparent in the US, investors will finally have the chance to scrutinize some auditors’ decisions

FX market participants have benefited from guidance on good practices and the availability of sophisticated technological solutions, but implementing a surveillance programme remains a considerable undertaking.

Iceland may remove, as early as the first quarter of 2018, the last of its capital restrictions imposed in the wake of its financial crisis, say market players.

UK banks scraped through the latest stress tests with no need to raise capital, but add a disorderly Brexit onto recession and overseas investor flight, and they could face serious trouble.

Domestic real-time payments are spreading as more countries adopt the technology, but the move to international, cross-currency payments is still some time off.

Banks in the eurozone will not be able to count any of their English-law bail-inable debt toward their pending requirements if no Brexit deal is reached between the EU and UK – translating into some €126 billion of subordinated bonds.

Are non-bank market makers simply repackaging existing liquidity or are they genuinely adding to market flows?

New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority and the country’s stock exchange are working to impose voice recording for traders after market-manipulation investigations highlighted limitations in the regime.

The UK regulator thinks that bond markets could step up their approach to reporting market abuse

November 2017 issue