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Middle East's best bank for wealth management 2018: Credit Suisse

Wealth management remains a hotly contested field in Middle Eastern banking, especially as an ever-larger number of banks strive to enter Saudi Arabia, one of the most exciting markets in the region thanks to its many high net-worth individuals and growing openness to foreign financial institutions.

May 08, 2018

Awards

Middle East's best bank for advisory 2018: Moelis & Co

Advisory work in the Middle East has shifted away from big-ticket international M&A buy-outs towards helping governments implement their longer-term plans and financing strategies and helping regional corporates restructure their business models and liabilities in an era of lower growth and (perhaps) higher interest rates. Having set up a Dubai office in 2010, now under Rami Touma, Moelis & Co has emerged as preeminent in this new model of regional advisory. It is the region’s best advisory house in 2018.

May 08, 2018

Sponsored by HSBC

Diversifying the Chinese bond markets

CFOs, Treasurers and funding officials need liquid and diversified sources of funding at the best of times, and even more so in a rising interest rate environment. China's bond market, the third largest in the world, has begun opening up to foreign issuers over the past few years. In the coming months, more new issuers are expected to enter the market as they look for funding sources that match their requirements, in a currency that is rapidly internationalizing.

May 08, 2018

CAPITAL MARKETS

Bulge bracket finds slim pickings in emerging Europe

Appetite for acquisitions in the outperforming economies of emerging Europe is booming, despite political concerns. Deal flow remains concentrated in the mid-market, however, as a shortage of opportunities frustrates would-be big-ticket buyers.

Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, May 08, 2018

BANKING

Citi’s simplicity pays off in Latin America

It is one thing to simplify a business plan but quite another to execute it. Nevertheless, Citi appears to be on the verge of making its new simple approach, well, simple.

Rob Dwyer, May 08, 2018

Fintech

The dark heart of banks’ digital transformation

Banks already have the largest attack surfaces and face the widest range of attackers and attack types of any businesses. Now with their strategies dependent on rapid digital transformation, they are exposing themselves to a potentially existential threat on an ever-expanding cyber battlefield.

Simon Brady, May 04, 2018

Fintech

Cybersecurity risk: It’s third parties, cry if you want to...

With the most complex of supply chains, banks face an almost impossible task in dealing with third-party cybersecurity risk. But one group of counterparties poses a particular problem – law firms that have been slow to react to cyber crime

Simon Brady, May 04, 2018

Fintech

Investors grapple with cyber risk

Fund managers understand that cybersecurity is one of the biggest threats to banks. They don’t yet have the tools to properly assess it. But if the data drought were to end, cyber-strategies could become an integral part of their investment decisions

Andrew Capon, May 04, 2018

Fintech

Cybersecurity: A different kind of banker

The cybersecurity challenge has forced banks to hire a new breed of professional, often from national security services. But cultural issues can make staffing a cyber team difficult

Simon Brady, May 04, 2018

Fintech

Banks lead the fight against cyber risk

Risk management is in banks’ DNA. They have some of the largest cyber-risk management teams and budgets around – and senior management is taking the threat seriously. But are the banks secure? Can they drive cybersecurity down the supply chain?

Simon Brady, May 04, 2018

Treasury

Corporate treasurers pushing for fintech collaboration

Two corporate treasurers at the Swift Business Forum London 2018, taking part in ‘The future of cross-border payments – a corporate’s view’ panel, air their experiences of working with the banks and how their expectations around fintech collaboration are yet to be reached.

Kimberley Long, May 03, 2018

Fintech

Fintech: The cold, hard facts of bitcoin mining

Soviet military bunkers in Kazakhstan and portable houses in Siberia linked up to the plumbing: Bitcoin mining is moving in some interesting directions that will become even more diverse as China cracks down on its domestic industry.

Chris Wright, May 03, 2018

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