The billionaire Winklevoss twins and DCG CEO Barry Silbert have been squabbling over $900 million of frozen customer assets. The SEC has just banged their heads together.

Crypto promoters now want traditional financial market regulators to save them; those regulators would rather deliver the final blow.

Despite dire warnings by the Bank for International Settlements, market participants are not wholly convinced that US dollar obligations from FX swaps and forwards pose a threat to the stability of the forex market.

As the crypto edifice teeters, there is still one last chance for decentralized finance. If it can encode regulatory compliance into real-world financial assets issued in tokenized form and then trade, clear and settle in seconds at negligible cost and low risk, it might just survive.

Account-to-account payments have become a priority area for regulators, but industry participants argue that rule makers need to do more to support wider use of pay-by-bank services.

AT1s rallied on news that UBS will redeem a key deal in January. But with refinancing costs higher than coupon re-sets, the pressure now passes to other big banks.

The UK government has launched a sprawling range of measures to reform the country’s financial sector and markets. But the moves were mostly already under way – it is really all about the optics.

On December 1, EU member states agreed on a general approach for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The final text shields banks from their full responsibility to prevent environmental harm, thanks in part to France’s post-Brexit ambitions.

DeFi is touted as a solution to the multi-trillion dollar global trade-finance gap, despite tech concerns.

Bank’s ESG head urges competitors and regulators to respond more quickly to emissions accounting challenge.

As the private sector demands more guidelines, COP27 should promote the development of a global framework on innovative finance.

As the industry digests the results of the latest BIS triennial FX survey, Euromoney canvasses opinion on the implications of the key findings.

Bankers are sending mixed messages about market strains. Dire warnings about year-end pressures, pleas for regulatory help and assurances that banks can sort this out are being deployed simultaneously.

Regulators often rely on giving relief when market participants or products fall between different jurisdictions or certification is unavoidably delayed. But one US regulator is getting fed up with having to do the same thing over and over again, and is calling for rules to be fixed instead of being endlessly patched up.

Carbon credit traders want to secure the integrity of the voluntary carbon market while encouraging speculative trading that could fix its liquidity problem.

The curious case of the cows that didn’t exist.

Regulators want to prevent greenwashing; corporates need to abide by the rules. What happens when science doesn’t help?

SEC chair Gary Gensler’s literally getting vibes that there’s something sus in the crypto wave.

Not long ago, correspondent banking was as basic as finance got. These days it is compliance and cost-heavy and in the crosshairs of aggressive and powerful regulators. Little wonder that so many banks are exiting small or fragile markets – actions that help their bottom line but hinder efforts at financial inclusion.

Issuing bank debt used to be easy. But with many banks now crowding through the same narrow issuance windows, even high-quality issuers have barely covered the books on some deals. And as non-performing loans look set to rise, investors are worrying that the boon from higher rates won’t last.

Removing UK bonus caps and undermining the BoE could exacerbate a sterling crisis while entrenching US IB dominance.

An extraordinary series of data protection failures at Morgan Stanley’s wealth management business has seen the SEC fine the company $35 million.

China’s decision to let US regulators audit its New York-listed corporates is a shock. It’s a U-turn, a climbdown and a sign, more than anything, of China’s enduring financial frailty.

Banks must keep spending on systems that deliver more efficient anti-money laundering as crises spur financial crime.

The $100 million line of credit from Dai holders to a Pennsylvania community bank to support commercial loans should have been a breakthrough, but further deals are on hold as the crypto purists fight back against the pragmatists seeking more exposure to real-world assets rather than digital ones.

With less than a year to go, market participants seeking a smooth transition face a number of challenges.

Increased use of the euro short-term rate in the swaps market could result in a Euribor decline – or demise.

With more than 220 million homes to renovate, banks must provide the necessary funding to avoid being left with non-compliant housing assets. But a lack of standardized data on energy performance certificates makes it difficult to justify lending to some homeowners.

As scrutiny of the ESG sector intensifies, how can green funds provide the kind of data that the regulators are starting to demand?

A US climate bill filled with green credits will create business for banks and provide relief from the backlash against ESG products.