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.

Most new challengers are attacking retail, but a few ingenious startups are moving into the more fragmented and poorly served small business market. It is here that concepts of open banking and banking as a platform may first become real.

Euromoney looks at the approach taken by regulators to encouraging fintech innovation in North America, after the announcement of a formal information exchange arrangement between the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Collect everything and store it for ever, or only collect some data and destroy it as soon as possible? That is the question facing bank compliance officers struggling with Mifid II and GDPR.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) director in charge of stamping out market abuse sees her work as a dialogue with the industry.

Efforts to improve the speed of payments being made to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has not seen success, so technology might be used to fill the gap.

Industry experts on whistleblowing have been lobbying hard for reform, but it is still often the case that whistleblowers with the best of intentions have found themselves in legal grey areas, ending up blacklisted, bankrupt and unable to work in the City again.

The collapse of Carillion has raised perennial questions about PPP.

Equities is a business where only the top handful of banks traditionally make money. It is also a sector with shrinking volumes and revenues. So why are two banks outside the top tier – Citi and HSBC – trying to boost their franchises?

Corporates are now refocusing their efforts on internal fraud as well as external threats of cybercrime, following some high-profile cases.

‘Budgie’ always made his passion for cycling clear during his banking career.

London-based Cash Netting Services is aiming to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in annual costs for banks by helping them find netting opportunities on a bilateral basis.

The demands of post-crisis regulation mean that banks need to take a more flexible approach to the compliance function.

The Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) has heralded a decision to include one of its members in a working group looking at the replacement for Libor.

StanChart is through the worst of its crisis, but nowhere near where it needs to get to

After restructuring, is Barclays' markets business the right engine for growth?

Tucker and Flint must not squander Gulliver's legacy at HSBC

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.

Analysts’ confidence that there is untapped demand from Chinese banks to trade offshore RMB is good news for R5, which last week announced a joint venture with Shanghai Clearing House designed to connect these institutions to the London FX market.

Without fanfare, BNP Paribas is building its network among UK corporate clients. It’s following a template that’s already paying dividends in Germany. Is it on track to be Europe’s pre-eminent bank?

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

UK banks scraped through the latest stress tests with no need to raise capital, but add a disorderly Brexit onto recession and overseas investor flight, and they could face serious trouble.

Banks in the eurozone will not be able to count any of their English-law bail-inable debt toward their pending requirements if no Brexit deal is reached between the EU and UK – translating into some €126 billion of subordinated bonds.

Are non-bank market makers simply repackaging existing liquidity or are they genuinely adding to market flows?

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.

The first rule of Finance Fight Night is to write about Finance Fight Night.

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

Fees and regulatory uncertainty remain a concern for traders as cryptocurrency exchanges continue to broaden the range of fiat currencies they support.

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

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.