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Estonia offers safer option than France or South Korea

The Baltic state leapfrogged both sovereigns in the global ratings last year, making its credit ratings outdated.

Jeremy Weltman, January 29, 2016

Foreign Exchange

Sanction removal unveils Iran currency hopes

Iran is emerging from the shadows to re-establish itself as a prime player in the Middle East. Moves are afoot to rid the country of its black-market exchange rate and develop a working currency forward market.

Farah Khalique, January 28, 2016

Fintech

New entrants shake up prime brokerage field

For many prime brokers, 2015 was a chastening year amid rising macro risks, capital charges and innovation paving the way for a new breed of providers – but the traditional bank providers and the new entrants insist they target a different client base.

Solomon Teague, January 28, 2016

Treasury

Corporate treasurers mull Fed hike impact

The rise in US interest rates could encourage a change in cash-management behaviour – by increasing the relative appeal of term deposits, for example – to the benefit of banks looking to comply with Basel III.

Kimberley Long, January 28, 2016

Fintech

FX prime brokerage enters new era

The past 12 months have seen fees rise in FX prime brokerage, with many admitting there is probably more to come this year – but it has not all been bad news for clients, with the business benefiting from innovation, with technology, and particularly risk-management systems, an increasing priority among providers.

Solomon Teague, January 28, 2016

Opinion

Macaskill on markets: The mystery of the Basel outlier

The Basel Committee on Bank Supervision released long-awaited guidance on a new capital regime for market risk in January. It did not, however, solve the mystery of which bank was the outlier in a study of the potential effect of a change in trading risk evaluation.

Jon Macaskill, January 28, 2016

Opinion

Sideways: Loss, camera, action

The film of The Big Short provides a welcome reminder of the glory days of Morgan Stanley’s fixed income franchise, when Howie Hubler managed to lose $9 billion on botched structured credit tranche trades.

Jon Macaskill, January 28, 2016

Foreign Exchange

Emerging markets: Big trouble from brittle China

The January fall in emerging market currencies, the exodus of foreign capital and a global bear market in equities all point to a new financial crisis. How China reacts to this threat holds the key for emerging markets.

Sid Verma, January 27, 2016

Investing in Latin America’s sovereign credit markets in 2016

What are the biggest risks facing Latin American sovereign credit in 2016, and which markets will post the best and worst returns? Share your thoughts on investing in the region in our Euromoney poll.

January 22, 2016

Euromoney Country Risk

Poland’s plummeting political risk score foreshadows downgrade

Poland’s sovereign bond spreads are in turmoil, after a shock downgrade by Standard & Poor’s (S&P). The move follows a sharp drop in its political risk score in the latest Euromoney Country Risk (ECR) survey.

January 22, 2016

Opinion

JPMorgan’s results a warning to investment bank shareholders

Shareholders should be as worried by modest returns at the American market leader as by outright losses at Deutsche and other struggling European investment banks.

January 21, 2016

Treasury

Basel III undercuts allure of notional pooling

Regulatory requirements have increased the cost associated with notional pooling as a liquidity management tool, with many banks restricting the product to their best-rated clients.

Kimberley Long, January 21, 2016

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