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BANKING

Chinese investment banks: Calmer chameleons

Asia’s growing band of big, local investment banks won’t let short-term market fluctuations affect their planned transitions from national to regional leadership

Eric Ellis, September 18, 2015

Opinion

Off Message: Getting on the bus

This column’s author had an inside view of the Chemical/Chase merger 20 years ago.

September 18, 2015

BANKING

Iran plots path from sanctions to action

The country’s return to the fold of international finance is likely to be as long and winding as the road to the lifting of sanctions. But that hasn’t stopped forward-thinkers in Tehran’s financial elite plotting a vision for their banks and financial markets. Can it possibly live up to its billing in some quarters as ‘the most exciting investment in the world’?

Chris Wright, September 18, 2015

BANKING

NBIM sovereign wealth fund: Norway’s supertanker maximizes its impact

The country’s sovereign wealth fund is probably the largest in the world, and certainly the most transparent – a double act that creates challenges for the 450 people who run it. How does one run a fund twice the size of the national economy it supports, one so big that markets move at the mere thought of what it might do next? Two of NBIM’s CIOs explain.

Chris Wright, September 18, 2015

Foreign Exchange

TradeTech FX: Buy side wises up to benchmarks

The importance of foreign exchange is fast rising on the buy-side agenda, as asset managers start to question how good a deal they get on their currency trades in light of the benchmark reform after the fix scandal, according to market participants at this year's TradeTech FX conference.

Farah Khalique, September 18, 2015

Foreign Exchange

TradeTech FX: Top themes facing the industry

Clients are demanding better price transparency, regulators are sniffing around common trading practices, and markets are bracing for further Asia-driven volatility, say foreign-exchange professionals at this year’s TradeTech FX conference.

Farah Khalique, September 18, 2015

Foreign Exchange

Fund managers mull trades in choppy FX markets

Volatility is back with a bang as traders seek to make sense of an uncertain global macroeconomic outlook. Fund managers lay out trading strategies drawing from CHF and CNY lessons, and one fears Japan and China are now in similar situations to Switzerland.

Solomon Teague, September 17, 2015

Euromoney Country Risk

Cyprus almost as safe as Portugal

The island state has returned to growth earlier than expected in spite of its trade and banking-sector exposures to Greece, after the banking crisis caused a severe macro-economic adjustment.

Jeremy Weltman, September 17, 2015

Opinion

Inside investment: Bankers and regulators – Let’s all take the oath

The wisdom of ages needs to be heeded by bankers, investors, policymakers and regulators alike if we are to avoid lurching from crisis to crises, to the end of days.

Andrew Capon, September 17, 2015

Opinion

Against the tide: Is Italy turning?

Renzi’s reforms and favourable winds seem to be working some magic on the country’s numbers.

David Roche, September 17, 2015

WEALTH

Bank of Palestine: Banking against the odds

By anyone’s book, Bank of Palestine has recorded fantastic figures for the first half of 2015. The fact that it has achieved these numbers in such difficult circumstances is testament to the resourcefulness of its people. It’s a trait shown across the Territories. How do they do it?

September 17, 2015

Treasury

Corporates beef up internal operations amid rising bank risk

Corporates are shaking up their internal payment operations as they re-assess the risks in their banking relationship.

Kimberley Long, September 17, 2015

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