The first three months of the year have been tough for many investment banking business lines, but Europe’s banks are putting up a good fight against the might of the US firms.

Euromoney hosts its first private banking dinner since 2019.

The global cryptocurrency platform is sponsoring the relaunch of a 122-year-old live music venue in London.

The Swiss bank is still paying for its misdeeds, but this might be a taste of what’s to come for others.

This one is welcome in Australian banking.

The pressure for a short-term boost to ROE might force Bradesco to re-evaluate its insurance portfolio.

Credit Suisse is making heavy work of meeting its obligations under a 2017 RMBS settlement with the US Department of Justice. If it wants to make real progress, it will have to bite the bullet soon.

Crédit Agricole’s purchase of a 9.18% in Banco BPM could have benefits, even if it doesn’t presage a full takeover.

The IPO of Indonesia’s GoTo is a big moment not just for the issuer but for the exchange that changed the rules to accommodate it and for the entirely domestic joint lead manager group.

April 2022

April 2022

Banks need to be hyper-vigilant as threats grow from both malign and accidental disruption.

Private equity’s relationship with the Spac asset class? It’s complicated.

A combination of geographical position and commodity strength is working in the country’s favour.

It looks like Chelsea bid heartbreak for the structuring team at asset manager Centricus, but football financing is a funny old game and it’s never over until the final whistle blows.

The event was a showcase for both sustainability and trade agreements.

Corporates want to improve sustainability in their supply chains, but, if anything, the barriers to doing so are getting worse.

Is a bank called a trust a bank to trust?

With consumer business sales mostly finalized in Asia, attention turns now to Jane Fraser’s commitment to devote the proceeds to growth in the region. We are seeing early signs.

A blunder in its exchange-traded notes business is set to cause Barclays a fresh headache that it doesn’t need.

ESG has been an intense focus for banks in recent years – not least for their communications teams. But with war in Ukraine, ESG has hit its first real test – and the talking has stopped.

Margin hikes are raising the table stakes in markets from commodities to stock loans. Margins may be a better risk signal than curiously subdued measures like the ViX index of equity volatility.

China’s approach to ESG is a jumble of grandiose and contradictory state planning alongside often marvellously successful bottom-up plans by banks and fintechs to instil in consumers a more sustainable lifestyle.

Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea’s new president, is seen as pro-business and pro-market reform. Bankers are delighted, but there’s also a nagging doubt that populist policies that favour retail investors over institutional have crept in to win votes.

Brazil’s banks stand firm against fintech’s rise.

What practical steps do banks have to take when a client falls foul of a sanction list?

Vaca muerta is an enormous oil and gas field, but it may be too late to exploit it.

Where do the borders of ESG lie – now and in the future? Investors from the US to China are revisiting these questions and finding thorny and often unpalatable answers, even as they dump Russian assets for ethical reasons. The results are set to shape the financial world’s relationship with sustainability for years to come.

March 2022

March 2022