The lifers are being cleared out at a bank traditionally known for the long service of its senior management.

Deutsche employees who have recently been fired or face the axe will no doubt take comfort in the successes of fellow alumni such as Sajid Javid.

The FCA’s live market test facility has enabled a variety of capital markets-related fintech companies to test their business models and technologies in a controlled environment.

A recent survey states 92% of financial decision-makers have admitted to paying their suppliers late, but there are tech solutions to some of these issues – and it's about time they were adopted.

The Bank of England and Federal Reserve begin to build the bulwarks against Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra.

The field of contenders in the race to succeed Mark Carney as governor of the BoE is widening to include some unlikely names.

Most UK SMEs applying for loans have their applications approved, raising worries that banks have loosened standards just as risk mounts.

The recent withdrawal of Stater Global Markets from the prime-of-prime broker market has underlined the need for providers to continue to prove their value to clients.

Benchmark reform may have received a lukewarm welcome from corporates, but treasurers would be well advised to quantify their Libor exposures to avoid nasty surprises during the transition to alternative overnight risk-free rates.

The central bank’s new ideas for how to modernize Britain’s financial system could eat into banks’ revenues, while helping them cut costs. For the wider economy, Brexit will still smother the intended fillip to small-business exporters.

Crossing bridges before you come to them.

The father of international finance in the 1960s.

Efficient banks will win the digital race.

1985: The era when the City of London went global (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).

2008: While the GFC raged, Euromoney had an inside view as politicians on both sides of the Atlantic tried to save the banking system (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).

From the City desk of the Daily Mail to a park bench in New York, via conversations with the pioneers of the Eurobond market, Euromoney was the vision of its founder Sir Patrick Sergeant. He managed to create what is now a billion-pound business empire while reinventing financial journalism. His is a remarkable story.

Taking blockchain proof of concepts into production is a slow process, but a new loan-servicing platform shows how banks could cut costs and improve service.

Metro Bank’s credibility had been in question for a long time – that is what made it acutely vulnerable to online attack.

OakNorth shows that SME lending need not be unduly risky and can be highly profitable, and other new banks are following its example.

The news that Garth Ritchie, head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank, is being paid €250,000 a month for extra responsibility 'in connection with the implications of Brexit' has been condemned in Germany, where politicians and union leaders are preparing to oppose a potential merger with Commerzbank and associated job cuts.

Barclays doesn’t want Tim Throsby’s exit to be about Tim Throsby, but it is.

Automating debt and equity new issues comes a step closer with $20 million funding round for a new regulated platform.

Back-office hubs are at greater risk than London.

Option trading has grown, while forwards and swaps have fallen.

A string of due-diligence shortcomings enabled the international fraud that sapped investor confidence in once-booming London-listed oil firm Afren – and has also now led to jail time for its two top executives. What lessons can the banking industry learn from the failings laid bare in the court proceedings?

A recent criminal trial in London has revealed how banking negligence enabled a multi-million dollar fraud at the now defunct oil company Afren. Read on for a guide to Olivier Holmey’s feature in the February issue of Euromoney examining the errors made and what the financial sector can learn from them.

The ability of AI to help retail FX brokers is quickly moving from the theoretical to the practical; the result should be better operational efficiency and better trader services.

Branch closures in the name of digitalization, on top of wider woes in the retail sector, could exacerbate the kind of community breakdown that led to Brexit.

Greenfield start-ups embedded within the core business might be the best way for banks to address their legacy infrastructure problem.

Having tested HSBC FX Everywhere on internal payments, the bank now aims to provide it as a platform service to clients.