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Opinion

Bitcoins you can grab

Bobby Lee, co-founder and chief executive officer of BTCC, the Shanghai-based bitcoin platform and second-largest bitcoin exchange in the world, certainly stole the show at London blockchain week, a series of conferences held in late January.

February 09, 2017

Opinion

Gender inequality – Diversity: the alternative view

In a month that saw hundreds of thousands of women worldwide unite in disgust at the proposed policies of new US president Donald Trump, one Chinese investor has provided a shocking example of how pervasive a problem gender inequality still is in the financial markets.

February 09, 2017

Opinion

Bank regulation: The corrosive effects of IFRS 9

New accounting rules requiring banks to take upfront charges against possible losses through the full life of a loan promise damaging pro-cyclicality.

February 09, 2017

Opinion

Private banking: The generation game and how to lose it

The overweight focus on millennials by private banks feels a little desperate.

February 09, 2017

Opinion

UK banking: No wish for post-Brexit deregulation

Bankers in the UK have little if any appetite to row back on a decade of regulation they are just about getting used to.

February 09, 2017

Opinion

Private equity: The beauty of being Brexit-proof

It is not only banks that are wearily trying to assess the impact that the UK leaving the EU will have on their businesses – private equity firms are getting increasingly concerned too.

February 09, 2017

Opinion

European v US investment banks: Tectonic shifts

They have tried and mostly failed – European investment banks’ lag to their US peers is a blot on their international prestige and it is structural.

February 09, 2017

Foreign Exchange

XTX puts pressure on ‘last look’ in spot FX

FX market-maker XTX Markets is placing its bets on trade transparency, making a new tool available to the buy side that will, for the first time, enable them to calculate the cost of trades rejected by market-makers.

Joel Clark, February 08, 2017

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Trump jump or Trump dump – what now for the dollar?

The new administration in Washington is pushing a pro-growth agenda, which we expect will further support the recent strength in the US dollar. Comments from the president and senior representatives of the new government have suggested some concern about the dollar’s level. We expect the dollar to remain relatively strong in the coming year, however.

February 08, 2017

BANKING

Latin America: How BTG came through the ultimate stress test

When Brazilian federal police knocked on the door of André Esteves’ Rio de Janeiro home on the morning of November 25, 2015, they were not only arresting one of the country’s most prominent bankers, they were also delivering a hammer blow to his bank, BTG Pactual. There followed a stress test that would threaten the collapse of the bank. Here’s the story of how the partners forged a business model for BTG in the glare of public scrutiny.

Rob Dwyer, February 08, 2017

Opinion

Latin America – BTG Pactual: Esteves’ arrest shows how to run a bank

How many firms would survive the detention of the founder, dominant partner and largest shareholder? There is a lesson for others in that.

Rob Dwyer, February 08, 2017

CAPITAL MARKETS

Africa: Letshego moves into Ghana

Letshego has the ambition of becoming Africa’s leading inclusive finance group. In January, the group announced that it was continuing its continent-wide expansion with the acquisition of a small finance outlet in Ghana.

Olivier Holmey, February 08, 2017

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