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Opinion

Sideways: The bankers are coming for AI!

Junior bankers should relax about the threat to their jobs from AI and lean into opportunities to bluff their way to Wall Street glory.

Jon Macaskill, April 19, 2024

BANKING

Why incumbents keep building neobanks

Intesa Sanpaolo’s Isybank is the latest in-house neobank to run into trouble. But the desire to migrate core-banking systems onto the cloud is still encouraging other banks to follow this strategy.

Dominic O’Neill, April 18, 2024

Treasury

UK CFOs remain cautious but optimistic, Deloitte finds

Quarterly survey reveals that UK finance professionals may be feeling more upbeat about prospects, but that this is yet to translate into a willingness to take greater risk onto balance sheets.

Paul Golden, April 18, 2024

Opinion

Macaskill on markets: How to win the rate-hike PR war

A move back up in rates is creating a PR battle among Wall Street banks. JPMorgan was punished for a cautious outlook, Goldman Sachs promoted strong fixed income trading results and Bank of America projected a Zen approach to rate moves.

Jon Macaskill, April 17, 2024

Fintech

Fintechs fret about lack of scale-up funding

UK fintechs attracted more investment than all European rivals combined in a tough funding market last year, but a broken IPO market leaves them with nowhere to go.

Peter Lee, April 17, 2024

Opinion

CCB petition is a warning for China’s developers

China’s Project Whitelist, launched at the start of the year, exists to ensure bank funding for property development. But it is there to protect projects, not the developers behind them.

Larissa Ku, April 15, 2024

Opinion

Green shoots in Turkey but inflation worries persist

Rumours that FAB is in exploratory talks with a Turkish lender, together with hopes for a big-ticket IPO, point to optimism despite the dire outlook on inflation.

Lucy Frost, April 15, 2024

Foreign Exchange

Decoding China’s FX guessing game

Previous changes of policy direction have left analysts undecided on whether to attribute recent sharp corrections to the renminbi reference rate to accident or design – or even a combination of the two.

Paul Golden, April 12, 2024

CAPITAL MARKETS

Man’s Desmyter on what asset allocators want today

When clients talk to the world’s biggest listed hedge fund, market complexity, the use of technology and the need for customised solutions loom large in the conversation. Man Group’s president Steven Desmyter tells Euromoney how the firm’s evolving structure and approach reflect the priorities of the asset allocators it serves.

Mark Baker, April 12, 2024

Opinion

Rocket-fuelled growth catches up with Morgan Stanley’s wealth business

Morgan Stanley’s wealth business went from 2.5 million client relationships to 18 million over the course of a couple of years. Now, a quartet of steely US regulators is looking at how the division manages potentially risky clients. Given its rapid pace of growth, this is perhaps less of a surprise than it initially appears.

Elliot Wilson, April 12, 2024

Treasury

Instant payments will take time in Europe

The EU’s Instant Payments Regulation may have fired the starting gun on real-time payments in Europe, but many banks remain stuck in the blocks.

Paul Golden, April 11, 2024

Opinion

The IMF sounds the alarm on private credit

The IMF can’t see what dangers may lurk beneath the surface calm of direct lending – but it should be wary of regulators damming an essential funding channel.

Peter Lee, April 10, 2024

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