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Macroeconomic and geopolitical forces are creating an environment of heightened risks, divergent growth, and tax and regulatory uncertainty for corporates. Here we draw on Citi Treasury Diagnostics, our global treasury benchmarking platform, to reveal the top treasury priorities of leading companies, and share insights into how the corporate treasury can support global business objectives.

Partially filled orders are nothing new, but discussion of their impact is tied to the debate over the necessity to reform last look.

As Prosper fires a quarter of its workforce, the gulf between legacy lenders and pure technology plays grows ever wider.

Pakistan’s economic reform programme is starting to bear fruit, but a huge appreciation in the real exchange rate during the past two years is hurting the country’s export market, warns the IMF, amid expectations the country will soon join the MSCI emerging markets (EMs) index.

As incumbent banks were hit by falling equity valuations in the first quarter of 2016, newly-founded fintech firms were debating how best to absorb the vast amounts of equity allocated to them by venture capitalists, how to manage these investors’ exuberant growth expectations and the best tactics for dealing with high private-equity valuations on the fintech sector. SyndicateRoom is one of the great success stories.

After a record year for fund raising, large fintech companies are now emerging in marketplace lending and payments, with many more newcomers deploying venture capital money raised in $25 million to $50 million chunks to transform capital markets and traditional banking mainstays such as mortgage lending. The fintech start-ups are building revolutionary applications for blockchain, attacking every specialist niche in the financial world and keeping the image of fintech clean with business ventures aimed at inclusion.

The sovereign-bank nexus or the doom loop? Whatever you like to call it, senior German and European policymakers are wrong to want to limit bank holdings of government debt.

Many investors in marketplace lending have learned the hard way about volatility in sub-prime credit.

China’s commitment to common standards for development banks is welcome news.

Argentina and Brazil are heading in opposite directions.

When it comes to great tragedies, from 9/11 to the Challenger, few ever forget where they were when they learn of such events. What about less earth-shattering news?

The belief in the self-healing genius of financialised capitalism has been irrevocably shaken. The memoirs of Alan Greenspan and Mervyn King tell the tale.