Sovereign funds and Japanese banks fared differently in their financial crisis deals. Nomura seems to have achieved the least.

Banks must be front and centre for Europe to mobilize its financial system in the fight against climate change.

We need to change the banking model – and that means every person has to take some responsibility. Perhaps UNEP FI’s principles are the way forward.

The informal economy in effect blocks growth, so why is no one proposing tax and social security reform to bring workers and companies into the formal sector?

As the 10th anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers arrives, I have been asked to share my reminiscences of when I realized a global credit crisis was looming and why so many senior financial figures ignored my warnings.

Delusional clients are complicating the business of collecting fees for advising on mega trades for customers such as Saudi Aramco and Tesla.

A crisis is forcing a spike in small bank mergers in Italy. It is a more tentative trend in Germany, although these banks’ common desire for independence might make such crises inevitable.

The choice of Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund as the next head of the country's sovereign wealth fund is intriguing for both institutions

Are we missing a trick by not tweaking tried-and-true instruments for sustainable finance? Can we talk more broadly about commercial viability? And then, of course, there’s Goldman Sachs.

The smooth chief executive transition at Goldman Sachs will increase scrutiny on the potential succession to Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan.

Any slowdown in the economy of the country that consumes so much local output will bring short-term pain and should be a long-term warning.

Cryptocurrencies are still not legal in Russia for now, but that isn’t stopping businesses from preparing to take hold of the future.

If JPMorgan CFO Marianne Lake becomes the banker most likely to succeed Jamie Dimon as chief executive before mysteriously deciding to pursue interests outside the group, she will be in good company.

French, let alone Italian, banks should not gloat. Germany’s banking problem is theirs too, and neither domestic mergers nor French-led acquisitions will solve it.

The country has the right to join, yet EU leaders are stalling.

Restricting Itaú’s purchase of XP is good for competition.

Retail investors are pulling out of ETFs – or are they?

Just ten years after the crisis, banks' confidence about regulatory easing is worrying

While analysts focus on net interest margins and the turning credit cycle, there is an extraordinary risk hiding in plain sight.

The British challenger needs to be more realistic about its future, with Brexit and other risks ahead.

The announcement on Thursday that Shemara Wikramanayake will replace Nicholas Moore as CEO of Macquarie Group in November is significant for two reasons.

A strong quarter for UBS contained a few of the usual curiosities in the investment bank.

The case for smaller deals is clear, but pressure is building higher up the food chain as well.

A listing of a state-owned infrastructure asset owner in Hong Kong sounds old school, but its key investors tell another story.

Financial services give good exposure to the region.

It is easy to see why economists love second-pillar pension schemes. Making workers pay into privately managed funds not only addresses the issue of unfunded state pension liabilities, it also creates a ready-made institutional investor base that can support the development of local capital markets. If only it were that simple.

Unbundling probe will confirm Mifid II distortions.

Inclusion in the emerging market index is recognition of the country’s reforms and could bring $50 billion of foreign investment.

Some banks are doing more than others in building local capital markets in frontier countries.

It may have taken Trump, Brexit and the threat of a global trade war, but the markets in Europe are finally waking up to what the end of QE will look like.