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Opinion

The future’s bright, the future’s inconvenient

What’s in a name? Plenty, it seems, if it’s similar to one on a sanctions list.

October 13, 2015

Opinion

Off the record

"It’s got nothing to do with the market. It’s the fact that our f***ing governments haven’t got their f***ing acts together to make the necessary f***ing planning to address climate change and have spent 20 years p***ing in the wind wasting our money on lawyers in Paris"

October 13, 2015

Opinion

Ensor’s farewell to Euromoney

Few people can say they have devoted almost 40 years of their life to the service of one company, Very few indeed can claim that they’ve overseen the development of that company from having one niche product to being a company of 50 businesses worth in excess of £1 billion. But that’s exactly what Richard Ensor, who retired as chairman of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC at the end of September, has achieved.

October 13, 2015

BANKING

Succession planning: Asian family fees

When it comes to succession planning, there are fantastic successes and spectacular failures. But get it right and the rewards for private – and investment – banks can make it all worthwhile.

October 13, 2015

BANKING

Italy co-opts its co-ops

After years of crisis, a quiet revolution is happening in Italian banking. A mountain of bad debt and a government and regulator intent on reform have ended a fundamental tenet of the cooperative system – with implications for the vast tracts of cooperative banking elsewhere in Europe. Will the reform and a wave of mergers succeed in bringing Italian capitalism out of the regions and into the 21st century?

Dominic O’Neill, October 13, 2015

BANKING

Staley and Barclays: this time it’s different

What kept Jes Staley out of the Barclays job three years ago does not apply in 2015, but this time round his challenges could be even greater.

Clive Horwood, October 13, 2015

BANKING

World Bank pleads for monetary coordination

Chief economist Kaushik Basu calls for coordinated central bank policymaking, amid fears over Fed-induced volatile capital flows in developing economies. He likens such an effort to avoid mutually assured currency destruction to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Sid Verma, October 12, 2015

CAPITAL MARKETS

Pakistan's central bank chief eyes balancing act

Economic adjustment is well on track, but security and fiscal-consolidation challenges remain a drag on sustainable growth, warns State Bank of Pakistan governor Ashraf Mahmood Wathra.

Sid Verma, October 12, 2015

CAPITAL MARKETS

Eurobond option still on the cards for Angola

Armando Manuel, Angola’s finance minister, says that Angola will still issue a Eurobond despite recurring delays.

Sid Verma, October 12, 2015

BANKING

Samurai versus formosa: a tale of two bank funding markets

The search for liquidity has driven many bank treasurers to explore greater diversification in their funding programmes.

Louise Bowman, October 12, 2015

BANKING

The eternal struggle of the bank treasurer

Bank treasurers are trapped in a nightmare of never-ending regulatory challenges. From second-guessing capital treatment to understanding new rules on liquidity, their work is more important than ever to the overall health of the banks they serve. The one bright spot: at least funding markets are open to them.

Louise Bowman, October 12, 2015

CAPITAL MARKETS

Seychelles to snub Eurobond market

Finance minister of heavily indebted nation sees no need to access international capital markets in the coming years.

Sid Verma, October 10, 2015

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