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LATEST ARTICLES
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The collapse of Carillion has raised perennial questions about PPP.
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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?
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Corporates are now refocusing their efforts on internal fraud as well as external threats of cybercrime, following some high-profile cases.
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‘Budgie’ always made his passion for cycling clear during his banking career.
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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.
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The demands of post-crisis regulation mean that banks need to take a more flexible approach to the compliance function.
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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.
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StanChart is through the worst of its crisis, but nowhere near where it needs to get to
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After restructuring, is Barclays' markets business the right engine for growth?
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Tucker and Flint must not squander Gulliver's legacy at HSBC
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Jon ‘Mystic Mac’ Macaskill looks ahead at possible highlights for markets in 2018.
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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.
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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.
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Are non-bank market makers simply repackaging existing liquidity or are they genuinely adding to market flows?
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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.
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The first rule of Finance Fight Night is to write about Finance Fight Night.
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The UK regulator thinks that bond markets could step up their approach to reporting market abuse
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Fees and regulatory uncertainty remain a concern for traders as cryptocurrency exchanges continue to broaden the range of fiat currencies they support.
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HSBC’s next chief executive must quickly show he’s the man to take the bank forward.
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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.
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US bank enters UK retail just as BoE raises alarm on consumer credit.
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While foundations may be known for their giving, their investment portfolios lack creativity when it comes to solving environmental and social challenges. Some are taking their missions further.
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In true clickbait style, Euromoney offers some highlights from this year’s IMF/World Bank meetings.
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The UK Treasury’s plan to boost SME banking competition by paying RBS customers to go elsewhere doesn’t make sense if they are simply pushed into the arms of another huge, global player.
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Investment managers are not only bullish about their ability to manage FX volatility in their portfolios no matter what the market throws at them – they continue to see it as an opportunity to generate additional returns.
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For years, much of the hype in payments has been around mobile payments and blockchain technology. But the innovation that has done the most to change British shopping habits has been contactless cards, which launched in 2007 but have really come of age in recent years.
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The pioneering fintech lender has grown fast by offering much needed working capital in hours – rather than weeks – to small business customers poorly served by the banks. But now the banks want their share of iwoca.