All eyes will be on the next Brazilian president’s first steps towards a much-needed fiscal adjustment. That will likely be Jair Bolsonaro – who is well ahead of Fernando Haddad as the final round of voting approaches on 28 October.

Euribor’s administrator is confident that its reforms to the benchmark will make it eligible to be published and used after the Benchmark Regulation’s transition period ends. But don’t bank on it.

Cornered by Euromoney, former Aussie PM Kevin Rudd was less scathing of his political rival Wayne Swan in person than he is in print.

Rates are only rising because economies are doing so well and there is no need to panic, even if risk assets do sell off, at least according to the sell side.

Why is nobody in Asia worrying about trade wars and rate hikes?

UBS’s path to China JV control raises questions for others.

A prestigious award in economics could encourage complacency, rather than forceful action, on fossil fuel consumption.

Funding Circle demonstrates the pitfalls of IPO-ing a marketplace lender.

Brazil’s banks are now an election issue.

Momentum for Sibs is growing – which banks will take the lead?

The problem with India’s state bank mergers.

Isda needs to take action over manufactured defaults.

No one is surprised by the money-laundering revelations from the Baltics.

The resignation letter of Luis Caputo, until September 25 the president of Argentina’s central bank, is effectively the IMF’s receipt for the purchase of the country’s monetary policy.

The smackdown on greenwashing is coming – and ‘commitments’ to clean energy and environmental practices will not be enough.

The UK's financial market regulator finds firms still struggling with suspicious transaction reports, but it could be bolder in its criticism.

Wall Street is turning into a self-driving market, long before automation transforms the physical experience of transportation.

Larger family offices are taking on the private equity firms as they focus on investing directly.

The Santiago Principles have elevated governance in sovereign wealth funds – but not consistently across its membership.

The frequency and severity of UK banks’ IT failures are troubling their customers even if their regulators remain calm.

Absa’s efforts to establish wholesale-banking partnerships outside Africa, possibly with Barclays or Société Générale, underlines the importance of international links to African finance.

BNPP's role on a government sale of Safran shares has made its paltry year in French ECM look a bit better, but the ultra-tight deal also reflects the pressure of low volumes

One thousand pages tell us plenty about bank misconduct – but nothing new, and it’s all in the price. Asic is the most embarrassed institution in Australia today.

Jon Macaskill profiles the two new co-heads of investment banking at UBS.

Investment bankers hope for an autumn thaw after a spring freeze.

Front End looks back 10 years, on the views of the chief executives of 11 big banks interviewed in the wake of the banking crisis.

As political headaches dog efforts to bolster banking integration, fostering European champions through mergers is the least of the single supervisor’s worries.

Finally, some progress in Indonesian infrastructure – but familiar battles remain.

Credit scoring changes could be the key to breaking Brazil’s interest-rate burden.

Open banking requires incumbents to improve users’ experience of everyday services.