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LATEST ARTICLES
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I can’t seem to stop worrying about Argentina in its election year.
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New numbers suggest there could be trouble ahead for Asian high-yield issuers.
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Restructuring shows vulnerability of highly indebted firms as cycle turns.
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Spanish-based group will struggle to overcome fall-out of recruitment U-turn, while Orcel’s situation raises broader questions for banks’ hiring and compensation strategies.
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Banco Santander’s board has botched the appointment of the bank's next CEO in the clumsiest way possible.
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New penalties from China’s bank regulator suggest a firmer stance on trying to bury bad debts, but it’s not just a bludgeoning.
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From payments to full retail banking services, tech companies are encroaching on the banking space.
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Any bank with a gross NPL ratio of 27.5% has a problem – Italy’s Banca Carige can’t avoid insolvency unless it comes up with a radical solution, fast.
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A swingeing new bank tax in Romania is inequitable, misconceived and just plain dumb.
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To bring about fundamental change and to find long-lasting solutions, isn’t always pretty and it is certainly not always a win-win in the financial sense.
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The successor to Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank (ECB) may provide more support than expected to corporate credit markets if borrowing conditions deteriorate.
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As Mario Draghi begins his victory lap before stepping down as president of the ECB in October 2019 and his colleagues get down to the serious business of competing for the succession, they will no doubt give thanks that they do not face trial by Twitter in the same way as Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell.
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As Mifid II and shrinking margins pile pressure on single-country firms in Europe, Kepler Cheuvreux is an equities mirror for how Amundi has grown a multi-local asset management platform. Can other businesses replicate their practical solutions to Europe’s fragmented financial services market?
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European capital markets bankers’ fortunes in 2019 will turn on how quickly the withdrawal of the central bank bid can be offset by the return of a real market.
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By under-investing the vast funds raised at big expense to their end clients and then delivering shrinking returns, private equity sponsors are prompting customers to demand new approaches.
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Santander’s Brazilian bank took lots of deserved acclaim when Santander released its global third-quarter results, but keep an eye on Mexico.
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The US market is due a shakeout as recession looms.
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Bankers are nothing if not excellent at spinning events to their advantage: 2018 was no exception…
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The damage done to mid-cap equities coverage by unbundling research is ever harder to ignore. It will not be easy to lower this self-imposed barrier to improved capital-markets access for fast-growing businesses in Europe.
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In Africa, digital payments are still the future, not the present.
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The decision of Singapore regulators not to allow Noble to re-list wrecks a 19-month restructuring process and points towards insolvency.
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Investors' sudden obsession with whether or not a flattening yield curve heralds a recession is a distraction from more profound concerns about the state of financial markets.
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The landmark corporate governance (CG) report raises renewed concerns about dual-class structures – which is a bit awkward given CLSA underwrites them.
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Banks in the eurozone periphery have need, and some justification, for a new targeted LTRO.
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UniCredit’s €3 billion deal is a harsh demonstration of market dynamics.
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A lower-profile announcement caught Euromoney’s eye after the bluster of the G20 meetings in Buenos Aires.
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There's been a stay of execution, but for how long?
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The Trump administration has begun the process of ostracizing Iranian finance. Bankers there are hanging on to some rare good news, but how long will it be till they are back to square one?
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Euromoney's feature on Hillhouse Capital lifts the lid on a style of investment that we all need to understand more clearly.