By listing on Nasdaq, Coinbase may undermine itself, giving investors an easy way to bet on bitcoin without paying its own high fees.

Deals such as this leave deeper problems unsolved at Societe Generale and similar banks.

Unlisted banks, especially cooperatives, face less pressure to shrink as a result of low returns. They are gaining market share – but falling behind in digitalization.

Francesco de Ferrari gave up a plum private banking job at Credit Suisse to take over troubled AMP. It was always a tough ask. Personnel mis-steps did not help, but in the end there was not going to be much of a business left for him to run.

With monetary union off the table, a national break-up could make Brexit seem like a skirmish.

April 2021

April 2021

Bitcoin’s move into the mainstream is forcing crypto financiers to develop code switching skills to communicate with Wall Street without alienating online evangelists.

Bitcoin’s boom is dependent on ‘whales’ holding on to long positions, but trading techniques from older markets could create opportunities for whale hunters.

In comedy, timing is everything. And so, it seems, in internal communications.

The perils of marketing to Generation Z.

The country’s banks have successfully weathered a series of crises during the past six years. Will this time be different?

Thomas Gottstein’s first year in charge of Credit Suisse began with a pandemic. The second has been overshadowed by events surrounding a key client, Greensill Capital, whose collapse revives lingering questions about the bank’s operating model.

Bankers sign up to open letter decrying the government’s handling of the crisis.

Eagerly courted high-growth private companies will likely go to experienced Spac sponsors that know the route to high valuations.

While a bid still remains for duration, the EU could achieve much for member states through more flexible borrowing in short-dated instruments.

Non-fungible tokens are the inevitable end-product of the current everything bubble.

Activist investor victory may open the floodgates for shareholder challenges against Japanese corporate management.

Investment bankers head for the exit at Australian business.

The food delivery firm is redefining order flow.

Singapore always knew its fintech superstar might ditch the city state’s exchange in favour of US markets. Now it looks like Grab will do so through a Spac – the biggest yet – as Asia joins the Pipe party.

Less charismatic chief executives will serve Europe’s banks well in the 2020s – unless it simply means that more power will reside with their chairmen.

The data-cloud company has laid down an intriguing marker for its peers

Deliveroo’s pending stock sale gives London a much-needed financial boost, but the global IPO market is becoming a straight fight between China and the US.

March 2021

The ‘bad bank’ asset management company recently launched in the Philippines has not just been designed to make life easier for the banks, it could boost growth as well.

Clubhouse, the San Francisco-based app, is the cool new thing, a unicorn valued at more than $1 billion. On Friday in Singapore, a group of DBS analysts and economists got together on the audio-only platform to discuss the future of electric vehicles. The debate was chatty and inclusive, and a sign of things to come.

The RMB7 billion emergency loan handed out by the New Development Bank to China this week will be the last of its kind, the Shanghai multilateral’s CFO Leslie Maasdorp tells Euromoney.

March 2021

Rob Karofsky will become sole president of the investment bank at UBS, ending his ‘odd couple’ partnership with co-president Piero Novelli.