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BANKING

Australia banking: Premier to customer officer? Baird’s NAB move explained

Going from premier of New South Wales to an uninspiring-sounding title at National Australia Bank looks an odd move at first glance – but there’s more to it than meets the eye.

Chris Wright, February 28, 2017

CAPITAL MARKETS

Lebanon vs the money launderers

Abdul Hafiz Mansour, the head of Lebanon’s Special Investigation Commission, has a reputation as a tough adversary of financial crime. In a rare interview, he tells Euromoney why his unit is so effective, and why so much money laundering still goes unpunished.

Olivier Holmey, February 27, 2017

WEALTH

Private banking: Julius Baer’s wealth-gathering machine

Hiring more than anyone else in the wealth management industry and hoovering up the assets of failing competitors, Julius Baer is going head-to-head with its two larger Swiss competitors in Asia and Europe. Given CEO Boris Collardi’s tenacity, if the markets go his way, he may just pull it off.

Helen Avery, February 27, 2017

Benchmarking

Private Banking Awards Dinner 2017

View photos from the event.

February 24, 2017

Euromoney Country Risk

Delays to second bailout cause spike in Greek risk

Greece must find a way to secure more aid from its creditors, but is caught in the crossfire between the IMF defending its pleas for debt relief and European policymakers insisting on repayment. The outcome is likely to be messy given the preponderance of elections in Europe this year, and a sense of déjà vu by kicking the can further down the road.

Jeremy Weltman, February 24, 2017

Euromoney Country Risk

Country risk expert insight: Hydra-headed debt crisis rears its ugly heads again in Greece

In Q4 2016, Greece’s ECR score took another turn for the worse and declined by 0.27 points, dropping to 113th in the country risk rankings. This was a result of lower regulatory environment and overall demographic assessments, but most notably declining debt indicator scores. ECR asks two experts what the wider implications are for the eurozone.

Chilli Wutte, February 24, 2017

Treasury

Swift gpi looks to set new global payments standard

After a successful year-long pilot phase, the new Swift global payments innovation (gpi) messaging platform is now live, but it still has some way to go before meeting Swift’s aspiration of it being adopted as the global standard.

Kimberley Long, February 23, 2017

Opinion

Against the tide: The return of the euro?

The dollar’s multi-year bull run might last a couple more months, but its fundamental underpinnings are weakening.

David Roche, February 23, 2017

Foreign Exchange

FX: DIY performance analysis tools hit the masses

Performance analysis solutions, once so pricey only the biggest banks could afford them, are becoming more widely used for FX strategies as regulations demand greater due-diligence processes and sell-siders are under pressure to prove they are giving clients value for money.

Paul Golden, February 22, 2017

Fintech

Regulation and innovation thrive together in the FCA’s sandbox

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) regulatory sandbox has been a hit with market participants and regulators alike, giving firms whose services were never anticipated by existing rules the chance to test out new features without fear of fines or enforcement action.

Paul Golden, February 22, 2017

Opinion

Inside investment: We need to talk about pensions

If you want to kill the conversation at a dinner party, one sure-fire winner is pensions, but it is the $25.2 trillion in pension assets that fuel global capital markets and there needs to be some serious thinking on how they will work in the future.

Andrew Capon, February 21, 2017

BANKING

Banking: Regtech promises better and cheaper AML and KYC compliance

Rather than moaning about the time and money spent chasing false-positive alerts of criminal or terrorist financing, banks ought to be sharpening up their own anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) systems or renting in better ones.

Peter Lee, February 20, 2017

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