Platform provides arms-length pricing; usage metrics can establish price.

Tempers are fraying as EU regulators push back on Basel IV and threaten retaliatory ringfencing in Europe.

The creation of the FCA’s fintech sandbox, hailed as a step forward in regulatory collaboration, risks creating a disproportionate advantage for products developed through the process.

Thomson Reuters has entered a partnership with BestX to provide its buy-side clients with execution cost analysis functionality. It goes beyond what is envisaged in recent regulatory guidance for transaction cost analysis, allowing fund managers to refine their trading activities to reduce costs rather than simply meet compliance requirements

Implementing Payment Services Directive II is already causing headaches for plenty of European banks, even before they face up to the potential impacts of data privacy and messaging standards.

The outside world is still happy to see the market-based reforms in Argentina through rose-tinted glasses, but the country’s banks are battling a poor economy and tough regulatory challenges. Banco Galicia’s chairman, Sergio Grinenco, has a pragmatic view of the outlook for Argentina’s banks.

Stresses on banks are forcing change on how corporates run their cash management operations. For business to continue running smoothly, it will require some give and take from both sides.

There is now just over a year until the new Mifid II regulations covering research procurement come into effect in January 2018. The market still has a mountain to climb if that deadline is to be met.

Ultra-low rates and higher regulatory costs are thinning German banks’ already meagre margins, creating dangers of systemic importance.

Another European banking crunch is on the horizon thanks to legacy problems that have not been fixed.

S&P E-mini trader faces US regulatory charges; academics dispute ‘flash crash’ connection.

First euro-denominated tier-3 notes issued; French banks still waiting for non-preferred clarification.

Brexit threatens eurozone, but region still crucial to global banks.

Capital markets activity in Europe is dominated by the UK, so the Brexit vote could have dealt a mortal blow to the European Commission’s plans to promote it through the capital markets union initiative. To survive, CMU will have to get global.

Qumram offers a solution for banks that must be able quickly to reconstruct online discussions with their clients carried out across multiple digital channels.

The final ruling on Section 385 has been made, with significant dispensation to allow corporates to continue with cash pooling.

The results of the World Payments Report (WPR) and the Euromoney Cash Management Survey 2016 indicate marked variance in how regulations are implemented globally.

Communications compliance is moving up the agenda for financial services firms, as the City's watchdog cracks the supervisory whip and the implementation deadline for MiFID II fast approaches

Deutsche crisis hits AT1 bonds again; new trigger language needed.

Unbanked women an opportunity for banks; inclusion boosts economic growth.

The Wells Fargo scandal has once again put ethics at the heart of the debate about the future of banking. Regulation is clearly not working. Now an eclectic group of behavioural scientists, moral psychologists and spiritual leaders are stepping in to solve the problem. Will anyone on Wall Street listen?

FSB chair Carney marks his own homework, awarding A* grades for the board's financial regulatory reforms – this is hogwash.

Foreign funds expected to rush in; move coincides with privatisation drive.

New regulation in the pipeline to cover fintech companies; large banks wary of cannibalisation of revenues.

As the year-end deadline to finalize Basel III looms, there is growing speculation that the Basel Committee will water down its stance on capital adequacy requirements. The banking industry should, however, wait before popping the champagne corks just yet.

It has been over a month since Eric Ben-Artzi publicly declined his half share of a whistleblower award of $16.5 million for telling regulators about Deutsche Bank’s inflation of the value of a $98 billion credit derivatives portfolio during the financial crisis.

The internet has created a new kind of company that needs to be international and multi-currency from the outset. They are businesses that usually understand technology better than their banking partners. So how are the world’s leading cash managers meeting the challenges posed by these new clients?

Nordic blockbuster furthers synthetic rise; negative connotations linger.

The country’s banking sector is the most undercapitalized in Europe, so French calls for a delay to new capital rules are growing.

CEO John Cryan had hoped to remove uncertainty overhanging Deutsche Bank’s stock by speeding up the resolution of litigation, but the Department of Justice’s opening claim for $14 billion over RMBS refocuses attention on the bank’s weak capital.