ECR survey results Q4 2019: Risk down for Greece, Russia, Nigeria, but Argentina, Hong Kong, Turkey dive
There’s light at the end of the tunnel, but not all are on the right track The mean average global risk score improved from the third to fourth quarter as business confidence stabilized and political risks calmed, although it was...
Many corporates are still wary of mobile wallet solutions
The Worldpay from FIS 2020 Global Payments Report has predicted that digital wallets could account for more than half of global e-commerce sales by 2023. However, it also highlights a number of regional discrepancies. In the US, for example, mobile...
Minefield of risks faces investors in Japan and South Korea
Asian investors may be comforted by the fact China’s economy was brought back to life in the second quarter, after the lockdown-induced collapse in the first months of the year, but the difficulty of managing the region’s risk-return profiles remains....
Asia relocation: In the Vanguard
Shanghai skyline At one level, it can be argued – no, not really. The Pennsylvania-based group has long struggled to break into Hong Kong’s retail market. In a statement, Vanguard said it would, after an “extensive review”, wind down its...
Orchestration platforms to ease payments complexity
Kristian Gjerding, chief executive of CellPoint Digital, a company founded in Copenhagen in 2007 to help travel merchants handle payments in a mobile-first world, tells Euromoney: “Think about airlines, for example, that may have different online storefronts in different countries. They...
Covid’s long Latin tail
If quantitative easing is seen to be ‘cost free’ by policymakers, then what has started out as a one-time emergency policy response could be used next time the economy is sluggish and the fiscal accounts are tightened. After all, low...
Capital markets: Reasons to be positive on Europe
Euromoney has delved deep into the detail of just how the EU might conduct the large new borrowing programme for the €100 billion emergency SURE programme and the €750 billion recovery fund that was agreed in July. This programme was...
Blackstone-Takeda deal is good news for Japan investment bankers
For some time now, investment banks in Japan have been counting on a theory being correct. It goes like this: as corporate governance and investor activism have belatedly become fixtures of Japanese corporate life, the country’s tangled conglomerates will streamline,...
Fintech and the regulators: Bridges to nowhere?
Fintech bridge agreements are described as “a bespoke agreement outlining collaboration between two governments, cooperation between regulatory bodies and connectivity between ecosystems that encourages the sharing of information, including emerging trends and regulatory issues, with counterparts and discussions around areas...
US and China: The odd couple, decoupled
In March 2001, America’s hawkish defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld handed a report to George W Bush. It urged the new US president to see not Russia but China as the primary threat, and to redeploy more military resources to Asia....