Nearly every time Europe’s Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive is called into play, there seems to be a new justification for using public money.

Why did CIMB sell half its international brokerage business to China Galaxy? It is a coincidence of interests: survival on one side, expansion on the other.

Insanity can be defined as repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. The elites spawned by unfettered global capitalism and a market-driven financial system are still to heed the lessons from the global financial crisis and the rise of populist nationalism.

Goldman Sachs has laid out a three year revenue growth plan that is nothing short of extraordinary

As Stockholm loses its biggest bank, the threat by Nordea’s chairman Björn Wahlroos – peeved at higher Swedish resolution fees – to redomicile to Helsinki proves to have been no empty one, but the bank’s new home under the ECB could hold some disappointments in store.

An appearance by a senior Goldman executive at a forthcoming conference could herald a new strategy for its fixed income franchise

Panic buying of altcoin offerings is an obvious bubble that hints at a far more worrying loss of faith in the world monetary system

In 2003, the average number of high net-worth clients per relationship manager or financial adviser in the US was 170 – today, that figure is expected to be about 280, with advisers regularly claiming to know someone who knows someone who has at least 500.

Reversing the country’s reputation will take a long time. At least a start has been made.

The differences between two landmark access programmes for China’s capital markets need to be understood.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has irritated bankers with efforts to impose its own equivalent to US standards on leverage finance that may be doomed anyway.

There was no shine to the firm’s quarterly results, especially in fixed income sales and trading. They came in as the worst of the top five.

For all their boastful talk of becoming technology companies, most banks still run on core systems installed in the 1970s and 1980s.

In a yield-hungry world, what could be more appetizing to investors than a nation with stability offering 7% on its Eurobonds?

Here is the surprising news about liquidity in the bond markets: it’s getting better.

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

It is no understatement to say that the country is uncharted territory. The news is all good right now. But next year’s presidential election could return it to familiar, volatile territory.

The banking industry has stopped fretting about a full-on Brexodus of jobs to other EU cities outside of London and started worrying about what comes next.

The US Fed’s journey to balance sheet normalization might not be as steady as many have assumed as inflation stubbornly refuses to play its part.

In the spirit of summer supplements, here is Euromoney’s must-have guide to some of the main winners and losers of the past year in central and eastern Europe.

There was an air of mild incredulity in some quarters of the City of London when John Varley, the former CEO of Barclays, was charged with fraud alongside the bank he once headed and three ex-colleagues.

Why did CIMB sell half its international brokerage business to China Galaxy? It is a coincidence of interests: survival on one side, expansion on the other

Greater transparency on CSR would save banks from duplicated efforts while learning from each other.

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged Barclays and four former managers with fraud in June, alleging misconduct relating to two capital raising deals in 2008 and a loan to Qatar.

Sometimes we can’t see the trees for looking at the woods.

A big depositor run in Spain spells trouble for some – but the country’s biggest bank thinks it has spotted an opportunity.

European wealth managers are battling it out in Asia but North America is where private banking revenues are.

Azeri default reminds investors that implicit guarantees aren’t worth the paper they’re not written on.

The Barclays case may have saved the SFO, but the UK fraud agency needs to change the way it deals with whistleblowers.

Lines are being blurred as advisers get better at financing, and firms that used to lead through balance sheet up their game in advisory.