News broke last week of an intriguing insolvency petition in India: under the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, high-profile disputes are now commonplace, but what’s interesting here is it pits a Chinese policy bank against an Indian private-sector corporation.

It won’t be long before banks are going to be answering to the public about their role in advising clients on tax avoidance.

Jon ‘Mystic Mac’ Macaskill looks ahead at possible highlights for markets in 2018.

Nordea shares big problems with other big European banks – it offers no easy solution to them.

Investor Access, the electronic book-building initiative run by US-based fintech Ipreo, celebrated its first year of operation in early November with some healthy usage statistics.

The mood among bankers attending Felaban’s annual conference in November was conspicuously relaxed. Why relaxed? Well, business is good

As European banks are recovering, Nordic banks are facing perhaps their biggest challenge since the 2008 crisis. Their time as the darlings of the sector may be over

Anyone trying to keep track of attitudes to cryptocurrencies among Russian policymakers could be forgiven for feeling a trifle dizzy going into December.

DNB set up payments application Vipps just two and half years ago and has seen its in-house disruptor grow so fast that it has now spun it out and let it merge with other fintechs.

Attempts to refocus the global banking division led to culture clashes at an institution that is notoriously hard to bend to an individual’s will.

Analysts are glowing in their praise of Piyush Gupta’s digital strategy – how has he done it?

The UK regulator thinks that bond markets could step up their approach to reporting market abuse

Deutsche says it welcomes any investor who sees potential in the German bank’s share, but holders are growing impatient for delivery.

Several trends emerge from the year-to-date league tables, and not everyone will like them.

The People’s Bank doesn’t want a crypto-free country – it wants to own the market.

Hard-ball US-style activism is unlikely to succeed in Europe.

Investing in a sustainable matter does work – just look at the numbers.

SEC action just delays a final reckoning on the rules.

HSBC’s next chief executive must quickly show he’s the man to take the bank forward.

Just imagine if it all goes right in Brazil.

Banks face lawsuits over pay inequity as regulators now take diversity into their own hands.

The conviction of former HSBC trader Mark Johnson for front-running a customer FX order could transform the way dealers hedge client trades – and how they communicate with each other.

Banks’ third-quarter results show fixed income trading still depressed and CIB revenues mostly down, but UBS is looking remarkably perky, especially in equity capital markets. What’s up?

As Xi Jinping heralded the dawn of a new era of Chinese politics and power at the Communist party congress in Beijing in October, a forgotten but important anniversary was about to be passed.

Europe’s banking industry should pay attention to the woes of Provident Financial – its problems go to the heart of how to modernize a lending model without destroying the franchise, losing workers and racking up credit losses.

It’s obvious that Brazil’s government needs to reform pensions and get hold of social spending – easy to say, not so easy to do.

Back in June, holders of Eurobonds bailed in during the state takeover of Ukraine’s PrivatBank last year hired a clutch of upmarket American PRs to make the case to western journalists that the nationalization was illegitimate.

Barclays CEO Jes Staley has staked his future on the ability of four markets veterans to produce a fast turnaround in performance at the firm’s investment bank.

When rates start to rise, the big action will be in credit markets. Banks are already staffing up amid efforts to unfreeze the market structure and make it easier to take on and lay off risk

I realize my mistake within minutes of sharing with a colleague the notice from Dentacoin of the first blockchain solution for the global dental industry, including its own cryptocurrency token to pay for dental care products on a new trading platform.