The first quarter of Donald Trump’s presidency has already been a boon for banks, according to the Banking Compliance Index (BCI).

Ant Financial’s Jia Hang confirms suspicions that the scope of Jack Ma’s ambitions in finance are very great indeed

In the small German city of Bochum on March 31, Bundesbank executive board member Andreas Dombret made a heartfelt paean to Rolf Gerlach, exiting president of one of Germany’s savings banks associations, at the latter’s leaving do.

All sorts of things can go wrong when you start pledging cows as collateral.

On April 21, Donald Trump directed his treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, to begin the administration’s long anticipated attack on the Orderly Liquidation Authority, created as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act to ensure the smooth management of US banks at risk of failure.

Ukraine’s Gontareva should be lauded for her efforts to clean up Ukraine’s rotten banking system.

Virtu’s agreed bid for KCG shows the pain from persistently low equity volatility hurting even the new breed of market makers.

Mulyani’s programme finds success much closer to home than expected.

The sale of Bradford & Bingley’s mortgage book to Blackstone and Prudential could be a blueprint for the Co-op Bank.

Continental European banks have long looked with envy over the English Channel – more than ever since the eurozone crisis – but with UK banks facing Brexit and a more advanced economic cycle, and as a degree of inflationary confidence returns to the eurozone, could the tables be turning?

Many voters now equate environmental protection with job losses, but investing in sustainability can boost employment.

At first quantitative easing offered palliative care to the global economy – now the patient is finally reviving.

Goldman Sachs badly underperformed other US banks in first-quarter fixed income results, setting off a frenzy of speculation about trading positions that could have led to the disappointment.

The news that former president Barack Obama has agreed to speak at a Cantor Fitzgerald healthcare conference for a fee of $400,000 raises two important questions.

Developed markets have much to learn from the spread of digital financial services among the poorest in the emerging world.

The central bank found a way to enforce the rule just before lawmakers attempt to dismantle it.

The fortunes of the Spanish banks show how the recovery story investors have latched onto recently may be just as simplistic as the doom scenario they imagined only a few months ago.

It turns out that part of the reason Indonesia reacted so badly to the JPMorgan equities call was because it was downgraded more than Brazil.

An insider explains the Indonesian finance minister’s ire with JPMorgan

Two elections in Europe in a month will certainly ruffle the feathers of financial markets.

Ant Financial really wants MoneyGram, and has increased its bid by 36% – it’s a whole new style for the company, but getting it over the line will need more than money: it will mean convincing CFIUS… and Trump.

The sad death of Australian-Kiwi satirist John Clarke causes us to remember with a smile the time Euromoney was sent up in the great man’s Clarke and Dawe segment, a post-news staple on Australia’s ABC network since the 1990s.

The BBC is broadcasting on Monday an episode of Panorama that will present new material relating to the Barclays Libor affair: here is a guide to some of the related evidence from the UK Treasury Select Committee inquiry in 2012.

Another election cycle, another chance for a bit of bank-bashing. This time the venue is the Czech Republic, where prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka is trying to drum up support for his Social Democrat Party (SDP) before parliamentary elections in October by promising to tax the country’s banks.

Its HQ has to leave London – why not go to Warsaw?

Lloyd Blankfein’s swingeing cost cuts at Goldman Sachs really hit bankers where it hurts in March: their phones. No longer will their employer simply pick up the tab for their smartphone usage – Goldman bankers now face the indignity of having to itemise their monthly bills and (good grief!) claim their money back.

To keep the spirit of impact investing, it is worth opening up the terminology to be more inclusive of a myriad of strategies.

Who’d be a regulator? David Tweedie, who was chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board for a decade right through the global financial crisis, knows more than most about the challenges involved.

There just aren’t enough bankers in the US government, said no one ever… oh, except the American Bankers Association.

Money laundering is surely one of the most persistent and pervasive risks faced by banks. The practice is said to be just as common in the Middle East as anywhere else. So how do financial institutions there train their staff to deal with this threat?