New sole president’s success in building non-traditional strengths put him ahead of rival Schwartz

China is going cashless and cardless fast, with hundreds of millions of wealthy consumers leaping ahead to mobile wallets and providing some valuable insights for the possible future of open banking in Europe.

Comments at Las Vegas conference suggest banks ‘should have the right to do the leveraged lending that they want’.

Talk of exchange-traded funds offering exposure to additional tier-1 debt may not be as worrying as it sounds

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Next month, all UK employers with more than 250 workers must disclose the gender pay gaps for both salary and bonus.

One senses Douglas Flint is enjoying life after HSBC.

Pension reform in Brazil is going nowhere.

Cross-border exchange cooperation is back in focus in Asia – and at scale.

Barclays CEO has to deliver now he has the bank the way he says he wants it to be.

Family offices looking for yield need to be extra vigilant as the cycle turns.

South Africa’s reputation for insalubrious dealings under Zuma makes it fertile ground for maverick short-sellers.

For too long, the country has been at the top of the world’s news agenda for all the wrong reasons.

Blue finance is set to take off this year, buoyed by growing appetite for investments in sustainable fisheries, conservation and alternative plastics. It’s further evidence of the influence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

When banks get around to reporting first-quarter 2018 results in April (the US banks) and May (the Europeans), it is already safe to say that their fixed income, currencies and commodities numbers will look particularly good.

An investment of around $10 billion in shares of a reinsurance firm does not seem like an obvious move for a technology conglomerate like SoftBank, but its founder Masayoshi Son relishes any opportunity to surprise the markets.

Outsiders struggling to make sense of the investing tactics of SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son can take some comfort: his own directors often seem just as puzzled.

Everyone used to want to be on the sell side; now they want to be on the buy side.

Have banks finally learned not to hold their customers in contempt?

After a year in the recovery ward, 2017 results show some banks are healing. The most serious illness, negative rates, is stubbornly resistant however. The danger remains that banks may not recover before another disease –financial or technological – strikes.

Many investors are misreading the risks in Mexico.

The recent price collapse shows how far bitcoin and the rest have veered from working like currencies, but one cryptocurrency just wants to be used to pay for stuff.

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein wants to remind everyone of the importance of non-static resource commitments – and how they can move in both directions.

The political opponents of former president Lula look to have ruled him out of the next election, but this risks an even more volatile outcome.

M4 money supply growth could fuel inflation more than higher interest rates lower it, causing a predicament for central bank policy should inflation spike.

Italy’s banking crisis might move Mediobanca ever further away from its past as the country’s corporate gatekeeper. But its merchant banking legacy still gives it valuable links and a clubby prestige cherished by clients and shareholders.

After a lot of provisioning and restructuring, CEE banks have returns on equity that others can only dream about.

On a recent visit to the Russian central bank on a wintry day, Euromoney’s eye was caught by a chap holding a large and surprisingly professionally produced billboard.

Blackstone-owned GSO Capital’s provision of financing for building firm Hovnanian, on condition that it defaults on debt in order to trigger a payout on default swaps, highlights the reputational risks for investors as they supplant banks in setting the agenda for the credit markets.

The recent disclosure that rare wine worth more than $1.2 million was stolen from Goldman Sachs co-president David Solomon, allegedly by a personal assistant, raises questions about which other Wall Street titans may have suffered the indignity of losses they would rather not discuss.