If everyone else is keen on consolidation, why aren’t shareholders?

Tax changes are likely to boost their performance far beyond US domestic markets.

Investors can support their local lenders by preparing to sell them.

The collapse of Carillion has raised perennial questions about PPP.

Like many truly bad ideas, state ownership of banks is a concept that refuses to die.

Banks are learning the damage that being on the wrong side of environmental issues can cause.

Deutsche’s CEO is telling the world just how much the bank still needs to do to improve, but struggles to make investors see the cost of fixing things as investing for the future.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia appoints new CEO.

The good, the bad and the insidious in Asian high yield bonds.

As GSO’s controversial Hovnanian refinancing ends up in court, the wider credit default swap (CDS) market is the loser.

When companies are allowed to borrow aggressively at ultra-cheap rates, things can turn ugly fast when trouble strikes.

Some of the blips thrown up by the launch of the new regime look like more than just teething problems.

Big data concerns and growing protectionism mean many Chinese deals will stumble.

The search is on for masters of the bitcoin universe to rival the bond traders who appalled and fascinated the public in the 1980s.

European bank mergers should be of more interest to European than US investment banks.

French bankers, like its politicians, do best when they promise less and achieve more – especially on the international stage.

Any attempt to deal with Europe’s non-performing loans always seems to end up in a fight.

Woori’s woes shine a light on a banking system that is backward and lacks ambition.

The spectre of collusion may not hang over the US wealth industry for much longer.

An important step to confer respectability on trading in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies was taken in mid December when analysts from Deutsche Bank highlighted the role played in the emerging market by male leveraged foreign exchange investors from Japan.

Initiatives designed to attract investment to conservation got a boost at the end of the year.

Colombia will elect a new president in the first half of next year and, if the urgency to address the country’s financial position wasn’t already clear enough, the country’s December downgrade by Standard & Poor’s to one notch above junk throws the need for fiscal reform into sharp relief.

The region’s political highlight of 2017 went well.

Marco Abele, former head of digital for private banking at Credit Suisse, plans to tokenize billionaires’ luxury assets so millionaires can enjoy them too.

The eventual impact of the revised capital rules will be less severe than bankers feared a year ago, even though many lament regulators’ pivot away from internal ratings.

Outgoing chief executive was determined to leave HSBC without the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) continuing to loom over the bank’s entire business and reputation.

What’s holding up a key appointment for the Ukrainian economy and banking system?

It has been over 10 years since the start of the global financial crisis, which means we are overdue another one.

While growth forecasts for Brazil for 2018 are turning optimistic, a few – a surprisingly small number in fact – are warning about a growing downside risk for next year: a negative hit from a persistent drought.

Australian banks will face a year-long review into their conduct, but it’s not clear what they will expose that’s not already out there.