A strong third quarter from Morgan Stanley was the highlight of a mixed bag of numbers, while Goldman Sachs’ incoming CFO offered more glimpses of the future.

Morgan Stanley looks best in the third quarter, but was just pipped by Goldman over a longer term analysis

A Greenwich investor survey projects continuing growth in fixed income ETFs as the likely response to deteriorating bond market liquidity.

The Swiss bank is pushing into new territory by taking automated trading into a more complex and less liquid market.

Jon Macaskill profiles the two new co-heads of investment banking at UBS.

Investment bankers hope for an autumn thaw after a spring freeze.

Is former ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet the real villain of the piece?

Strategic tensions as much as short-term underperformance brought about BAML investment banking head Christian Meissner’s departure, but the corporate and investment bank remains in a strong position

Following a recent warning from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that banks were facing the possibility of an imminent global cyberattack targeting ATMs, banks are being urged to review the operating systems used to run the machines and the security measures in place to detect and prevent cybercrime.

Without a robust mechanism for handling chargebacks, merchants will continue to face sizeable losses from both misguided and malicious fraudulent claims.

Citi is mostly playing catch-up with its new corporate and investment banking (CIB) structure: it makes obvious sense, but despite coming later than many rivals it is still a work in progress.

New efforts to execute equity transactions on blockchain are emerging, for now concentrated in private equity, as disruptors seek to build investor and regulatory confidence in security tokens.

As the 10th anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers arrives, I have been asked to share my reminiscences of when I realized a global credit crisis was looming and why so many senior financial figures ignored my warnings.

Delusional clients are complicating the business of collecting fees for advising on mega trades for customers such as Saudi Aramco and Tesla.

Traders have been staying away from the Turkish currency this year as they watched a steady decline in its value against the dollar, but the recent deterioration of relations between Turkey and the US sent the currency spiralling into a full-blown crisis.

Undeterred by the SEC’s recent disapproval of bitcoin ETFs or cryptocurrency price falls, Circle is intent on building a framework for the tokenization of finance with its stablecoin as the next big step.

The smooth chief executive transition at Goldman Sachs will increase scrutiny on the potential succession to Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan.

If JPMorgan CFO Marianne Lake becomes the banker most likely to succeed Jamie Dimon as chief executive before mysteriously deciding to pursue interests outside the group, she will be in good company.

Retail investors are pulling out of ETFs – or are they?

Stock coverage to double, says partner; hiring spree turns to the US.

Just ten years after the crisis, banks' confidence about regulatory easing is worrying

US asset manager sets sights on Germany with new direct lending fund.

The case for smaller deals is clear, but pressure is building higher up the food chain as well.

Euromoney was an accredited reporter at the Trump-Kim North Korea-US summit in Singapore in June.

Equity capital markets moves at Citi and BAML say more about the two firms than they do about ECM.

One big deal might kick off a new round of mergers, but the risk of over-paying remains.

Deutsche Bank’s failure of the recent Federal Reserve stress tests drew attention, but while the regulator was happy to kick the battered European bank while it is down, this was in stark contrast to its treatment of favoured home-town players Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Europe may not be enough after Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran deal.

A wave of regional mergers will be the nail in the coffin of the small banks and credit unions.

The eighth biggest bank in the US is on a roll. It has absorbed multiple acquisitions aimed at rebalancing its franchise, broken into corporate banking and wealth management, continued its digital development but at the same time espoused a philosophy that does not consider the branch to be dead. And it has done all this without losing sight of its corporate responsibility goals. Euromoney’s choice this year as the US’s best bank is BB&T.