The brutal grilling of chief executive John Stumpf before the Senate banking committee is just the beginning of investigations that will embroil Wells Fargo and damage its peers.

Regulations designed to protect US banking consumers may instead be pushing the poor out of the system altogether.

The time-consuming burden of complying with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has meant some corporates have been looking to outsource their reporting, but this might prove to be a false economy.

The FX business is officially shrinking for the first time since 2001, as the world's largest financial market battles an industry slowdown and a regulatory crackdown.

Regulators around the world have repeatedly tried to tackle the problem of excessive leverage being freely available to retail, particularly in FX, but Belgium's outright ban on leveraged products is the most radical solution yet.

Banks are stepping up their offerings as the divide grows between corporates with plenty of liquidity and those struggling.

Barclays has outlined its timeframe for the implementation of ring-fencing, but banks have so far given little public detail on what the structural reform of the UK’s banking industry will entail. This is leaving corporate treasurers unable to make their own plans.

The European Securities and Markets Authority’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), which came into effect in July, may have effectively brought aspects of spot FX into its scope, argue some advisers. But greater clarity is what market participants need.

When HSBC’s former head of global FX cash trading Mark Johnson learned that he had a window of just over 30 minutes to move the sterling exchange rate and profit from an approaching client trade, he said: “Ohhh f***ing Christmas,” according to US prosecutors.

Digital initiatives boost Hong Leong Islamic Bank; Islamic finance fertile ground for fintech.

The UK's decision to leave the EU has left corporates scrambling to review many aspects of their business to ensure they are able to withstand heightened volatility. Injecting a greater level of optionality into their hedging strategies is one way to protect themselves from increased uncertainty, says Citi.

MasterCard is to become the majority shareholder of VocaLink, but will ownership by one global company truly promote greater competition?

The implementation of Mifid II has been postponed to allow additional time for improving data quality. Meeting this standard, though, is requiring a substantial amount of work.

From retail and investment to emerging market banking, regulatory technology is redrawing the global financial map. Data is the new capital, ideas are the new risk.

The BoE still has plenty of monetary weapons in its policy arsenal, including expanding an asset-purchase programme akin to the ECB, but, amid febrile market confidence, it needs to tread carefully.

The opening up of accounts access by PSD2 could take the drive for real-time payments in Europe out of the hands of the banks, and hasten its time to market.

UK-based financial institutions should expect the bulk of European Union regulations to remain in place up to and even after the UK’s exit from the bloc, despite uncertainties over the terms of the eventual exit, lawyers say.

The implementation of Section 385 regulations by the US Department of the Treasury is aimed at stopping profit stripping, but, without redress from treasury and compliance measures, it could also hit intercompany lending and pooling structures.

Deutsche Bank pledges to update anti-money laundering (AML) processes after failings uncovered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in a move that's pushing other banks to reassess their own operations.

Market participants have expressed confidence that organized trading facilities (OTFs) – the new venue introduced under Mifid II – will deliver increased transparency compared with multilateral trading facilities (MTFs).

Market participants have expressed confidence that current best-execution rules are sufficient to enable compliance with the updated BIS FX conduct code.

The volatility of the commodities market is propelling treasurers to assume a greater involvement in monitoring price fluctuations while working more closely with procurement teams than ever before.

In the great debate on banking union, the smaller markets of emerging Europe are often overlooked. Yet, with banking sectors dominated by eurozone groups, they are uniquely vulnerable to changing regulatory regimes.

Advocates claim the principles-based approach offers the best hope of restoring trust in the FX market once and for all.

Corporate treasurers reveal the impact of compliance on their day-to-day operations – and how it is affecting their relationship with banks.

Overall investment in FX technology has declined in line with the wider financial services sector over the last 12 to 18 months as banks focus on specific markets and business objectives. But there’s no shortage of innovation in banks’ proprietary or off-the-shelf platforms.

View the full results of the Fixed Income Research Survey 2016 here.

The unbundling of research costs in fixed income could see the market shrink to a shadow of its former self.

Rabobank is changing more proactively than other European mutual banks, but it still has its work cut out to adjust to new Basel rules.

MetLife wins right to ditch Sifi label; US insurers consider options.