Shareholder proposals to support policies around climate change mitigation have had some recent wins that deserve celebrating.

Veteran investor Carl Icahn has filed a lawsuit accusing Occidental Petroleum chief executive Vicki Hollub of being played by Warren Buffett in accepting aggressive terms for a $10 billion financing from Berkshire Hathaway to complete an agreed bid of around $56 billion for Anadarko.

As technology spending escalates, financiers now face a temptation to reframe costs as an investment in future growth, safe in the knowledge that it is extremely difficult to check their assertions.

Frustration is building quickly in Brazil. What was supposed to be the beginning of a credit cycle – and a structural improvement in long-term economic growth – is becoming just another false dawn.

HSBC, JPMorgan and Mizuho lend Mexico’s oil company $8 billion after investors show no interest in non-deal roadshow – and that’s the least of the firm’s problems.

A case by Hong Kong’s ICAC against an individual on bribery charges is another example of Asia-Pacific regulators targeting the person as well as the institution.

Banking and capital markets in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Africa have been transformed over the last 50 years, but the change in Asia is particularly breath-taking.

The bidding for Pakistan’s power plant privatization shows that the country’s problems aren’t putting off foreign bankers.

Metro Bank’s credibility had been in question for a long time – that is what made it acutely vulnerable to online attack.

Long-standing fears that the business model cannot work have hit Uber’s post-IPO performance.

Citigroup president Jamie Forese and his Morgan Stanley counterpart, Colm Kelleher, are bowing out after contrasting quarters for their investment banks.

Bank of America is reportedly excited about the potential of a tool it calls the Predictive Intelligence Analytics Machine, or Priam.

Greater consideration has to be given to financing conservation. That includes questioning the financing of firms that produce pesticides and herbicides.

Ten years on from the crisis, Morgan Stanley was already a different animal, with a shift to half its revenues generated from wealth management – what will it look like in another 10 years? Maybe more like Bank of America or JPMorgan…

The 100-day mark of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has recently passed; no one – not even the government itself – pretended the time had been well spent.

The phony war has been long, but the first real battle has now begun in Brazil’s fintech space.

The deluge of bids for the debut issuers shows how reliant investors have become on primary allocation.

Humanitarian crises are emerging market issues and local banks are the best way to distribute aid. Banks should make it easier and cheaper to get funds to them.

Investors and issuers increasingly view leveraged loans and high yield bonds as practically one and the same from a risk perspective.

Expectations of the valuation investors are likely to put on Uber when it lists are falling in line with the shares of its closest competitor that beat it to public ownership.

Authorities are being more proactive in uncovering trouble.

European bank mergers, especially in France and Germany, will stand or fall on the strength of staff relations.

This month, Euromoney’s 50th anniversary coverage comes to the global capital markets.

Debate around the UniCredit-Commerzbank merger will centre on its impact on European banks’ share prices as Eurosceptic populism makes cost cutting more difficult.

Cash will be around for a long time – but its role will change.

Firms are funding social and environmental projects on the one hand and fossil fuels on the other – it’s time to show they care.

Germany may conduct a strange experiment in state-sponsored investment banking if a merger between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank proceeds.

The news that Garth Ritchie, head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank, is being paid €250,000 a month for extra responsibility 'in connection with the implications of Brexit' has been condemned in Germany, where politicians and union leaders are preparing to oppose a potential merger with Commerzbank and associated job cuts.

The sharp sell-off in credit in December and rapid recovery in the first quarter is a worrying sign of market dysfunction.

However the situation plays out, it might be the smaller firm that ends up in the stronger position.