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BANKING

New Kuwait highlights the same old problems

The emir of Kuwait has revealed a grand plan to transform the country into a regional financial centre by 2035. The country’s bankers and businessmen say they’ve heard it all before. Can Kuwait finally deliver on its promises?

Olivier Holmey, April 07, 2017

BANKING

Commerzbank: This time they hope it’s different

Any bank promoting its new strategy as ‘version 4.0’ has clearly suffered a chequered recent history. Now Commerzbank’s management is pinning its hopes on a renewed focus on corporate clients, especially in Germany. It sounds simple, but insiders admit it will require a cultural, as well as digital, transformation.

Louise Bowman, April 06, 2017

WEALTH

Philanthropy gears up with Asian altruism

With increasing wealth and a desire to create sustainable social and environmental impacts, Asia is overtaking the US as the driver of innovation in philanthropy. It’s also creating a great opportunity for private banks and others.

Helen Avery, April 06, 2017

Treasury

Treasurers struggle to manage e-commerce working capital cycles

Planning the working capital cycle for any company in a sector prone to unpredictable payment flows is a challenge, but that job has become tougher for treasurers of e-commerce companies as the industry comes under closer scrutiny from tax authorities and regulators.

Kimberley Long, April 06, 2017

BANKING

Fintech disruptors turn into incumbents

The trend for fintech upstarts to collaborate with the big banks they once sought to challenge is now so well established that the boundaries of their business models are no longer clear.

Peter Lee, April 06, 2017

ADB hits half-century, for better and worse

Its 50th anniversary should be a cause for celebration at the Asian Development Bank. But president Takehiko Nakao knows the ADB needs to move forward, not look back. For all its achievements, the bank has struggled to help Asia cope with its infrastructure and environmental issues. And, increasingly, its governance is called into question.

Chris Wright, April 06, 2017

Opinion

China: The curious case of Guotai Junan

The Chinese brokerage’s fixed-price IPO in Hong Kong is being hailed as a step forward for a mainland-distorted market. But is it?

Chris Wright, April 06, 2017

Foreign Exchange

Brexit-related FX mis-selling claims hitting hurdles

Claims of FX derivatives mis-selling have spiked since the EU referendum, although the limited number of court cases brought to date indicates the difficulties faced by companies who feel they were sold products not appropriate for their hedging requirements.

Paul Golden, April 06, 2017

Foreign Exchange

FX: Stronger euro prompts investors to reconsider hedging

This year has been a good one for the eurozone economy, with business confidence, credit growth and economic activity set to hit a six-year high in the first quarter.

David Wigan, April 06, 2017

CAPITAL MARKETS

Leveraged finance: Why the new barbarians don’t need banks

The European leveraged loan market is in overdrive, offering unprecedented terms to borrowers and pushing leverage to uncomfortable levels. Cash-rich non-banks are breaking out of the mid market and into syndication. But stoking competition for assets exposes their Achilles’ heel: the yields they have promised their own investors.

Louise Bowman, April 05, 2017

BANKING

Fintech threatens the big banks’ grip on the primary markets

Fintech may not disrupt capital markets as quickly or as profoundly as it has retail financial services, but the incumbents should not be complacent. With regulators insisting on greater transparency and audit trails for investor allocations, the control of information that made the banks’ masters of these deals is already slipping.

Peter Lee, April 05, 2017

BANKING

LatAm banking: Supervielle flying in Argentina

Bank maintaining momentum from its IPO and international bond; acquisitions not planned given size of organic opportunity.

Rob Dwyer, April 05, 2017

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