The country’s response to the scandal is a chance to show good governance.

Everyone wanted radical change at Commerzbank, except the bank itself.

Investors should stop pretending to care about ESG risks.

It has become almost fashionable to write off the city. There are important reasons to believe it will endure.

The Covid-19 crisis will accelerate monetization in the Gulf and see Abu Dhabi companies take equity stakes in the emirate.

Nationalist desperation to get ahead in fintech surely explains some of the spectacular regulatory failure in the Wirecard accounting scandal.

The awkward truce in Brazil between XP Inc and Itaú broke down in a very public way in June.

The country is losing the war on the coronavirus, as well as wasting the ensuing digital payments opportunity eagerly grasped by others in Latin America.

Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon’s decision to back a rival to Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may come back to haunt him.

Director Luc Jacquet hopes to fund his next project, to be filmed in the Galapagos Islands, through a securities token offering launched from Monaco.

A complex investment in Wirecard by Deutsche Bank veterans now working at SoftBank has effectively compounded the eventual embarrassment for Germany Inc from the failure of the online payments firm.

The long lines that have appeared outside reopened retail stores will not be enough to stave off the inevitable crisis in commercial real estate.

Banks promised greater clarity on expected loan losses with their Q2 results, which are now looming – but they are unlikely to provide it.

Firms such as Deposit Solutions and Raisin are thriving, partly because Europe’s wealthy are so risk averse.

If a sovereign wealth fund is a coat for a rainy day, then why is hardly anyone putting one on when it’s been pouring down since March?

International diversification counts for little in a pandemic, so shares in Sweden’s Handelsbanken have done better than most other lenders in Europe – but its loan book faces a stern test.

The saga of ESG data looks promising, but the questions about its usefulness for investors drag on.

Will forcing all foreign firms to comply with US audit standards be the straw that breaks the camel’s back in Beijing?

A new law prohibiting the return of banks to their former owners will unlock international funding for Ukraine. But is it really the game changer some are claiming?

BlackRock’s contract with the Federal Reserve to support the corporate bond market leaves the world’s biggest asset manager with no room for governance error.

As credit losses hit banks hard over the next three quarters, one large failure could spark a systemic crisis. Consolidation is the only way out.

Covid-19 may accelerate larger wealth managers’ global ambitions.

Investors looking to profit from – and hedge against – credit deterioration due to Covid-19 will need to pick their spots when fighting the Federal Reserve.

Will it be back to business as usual as soon as lockdown restrictions are lifted?

There is a plausible recovery scenario that would enable Latin America to exit the crisis on a better path than it was on before.

Collapse in Brazilian equities places a question mark over recent growth in retail investment.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority may struggle to show anything explicitly wrong in the awarding of recent equity mandates.

It seems a strange time to want to buy into Australian wealth management.

The digital bank struggled to make an impact in a fiercely competitive field.

Lessors and bondholders had little choice but to keep Norwegian Air alive, but bigger losses will come as the industry gets used to its new normal.