Investors must understand the limits of regulatory efforts to measure climate stress at banks.

One sustainability expert takes humanizing the narrative to new levels.

Relief on dividends is not enough to propel the sector back to greatness.

Sustainable finance and renewable energy are becoming more important for the French firm, as it reduces its emphasis on equity derivatives.

China faces tough choices in the months ahead. Make the right decisions and it can become the global leader in ESG, a country determined to shed its industrial past and embrace a cleaner, greener future.

China’s use of financial acronyms began in 1980 and has since morphed into an all-out love affair that shows no sign of abating.

Brazil’s central bank attempts to redress the country’s woeful environmental reputation with climate-related stress tests.

Evergrande is in trouble, drowning in debt and besieged by angry investors. It is bad news for shareholders, but it also raises harder and darker questions about investing in China.

Other Latin American countries watch with interest as El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment gets off to a faltering start.

Singapore’s DBS has unleashed an unlikely new weapon against impersonation scams: a strange blue-haired man called Kim Huat.

September 2021

September 2021

When emails go wrong

From Beijing’s plans to overhaul its small-business stock exchange to Shanghai’s push to be a global financial services leader, legislators never seem to rest in China.

DeFi is not a strategic asset allocation for mainstream investors yet, but big gains on cryptos and now high yields are drawing in the front runners.

Bank of America struck a disjointed tone in its announcement that chief operating officer Tom Montag and vice chair Anne Finucane are to retire at the end of the year.

Credit Suisse is stacking its board with risk management experts, but banks need to do more than fight the last war they lost.

Deutsche Bank’s restructuring has not been thrown off course by the pandemic, but upside surprises can hide risks. Discipline will be needed to avoid the temptations of the past.

How much right does a bank have to instruct your behaviour when working from home? At Nomura in Japan, plenty, it seems – though the bank has only concern for your health at heart.

The corridors of power echo with the voices of the bank’s alumni.

No access to reserves, sinking currency, soaring inflation. Now what?

The new SDR programme raises more questions than it answers.

A tough-minded, independent thinker revered by many and disliked by some, Thomas Montag has been a dominant figure that will be hard to replace.

In September, the EU will issue bills through the auction system operated by the Banque de France for the French Trésor. But they will not immediately be a reference safe asset for European capital markets.

Bright people, information overload and impenetrable jargon: our ESG editor Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker reflects on her first 12 months covering a fast-growing sector.

ESG issues are part of the package with emerging market sovereign bonds.

Afterpay’s out-of-nowhere success has captivated Australia for some time, dividing the nation into fans and critics of the pay-later fintech. Now it is part of Australia’s biggest-ever M&A deal.

David Wildermuth, the new chief risk officer at Credit Suisse, may have much of the heavy lifting done by the time he arrives at his desk in Zurich.

JPMorgan wants to have fun being a disruptor, but persistently low valuations for even the strongest banks limit its options.

A digital-only cryptocurrency artwork takes the non-fungible token virtual investment trend along a new track.