UniCredit’s Mustier says EU banking union ‘will never be completed’
Europe’s banking union should refocus on regulatory consistency and transparency, UniCredit chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier tells Euromoney, in an unusually frank recognition of the impracticality of eurozone risk sharing. Jean Pierre Mustier,UniCredit Amid new rumours this week of UniCredit’s...
ECR survey results Q1 2019: Increased risk for US, Canada, Mexico caught in slipstream of protectionism
Euromoney’s first quarterly risk survey of the year reveals a balanced global profile, with 57 countries becoming riskier (having lower risk scores) and the same number that are now safer (with higher scores). For many countries, economic growth is creating...
Private equity sponsors face big changes
Euromoney sits down with a private equity fund manager, a veteran of the investment banking industry, who has concentrated the firepower of the hundreds of millions of dollars former contacts have entrusted to him through their family offices in the...
Why is the ECB so much murkier than the Fed?
Two issues stood out during Andrea Enria’s hearing at the European Parliament in November, when he successfully defended his candidacy to lead the eurozone’s bank supervisor. Andrea Enria, SSM One was the need for stronger action to level Europe’s non-performing...
EBRD: There’s no place like home
Suma Chakrabarti doesn’t give up easily. Less than a year after the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) failed in his bid to persuade shareholders to expand its remit to sub-Saharan Africa, he has announced plans...
In France, banking unions need to be better understood
By: Published on: Monday, April 15, 2019 European bank mergers, especially in France and Germany, will stand or fall on the strength of staff relations. Signal2forex review
Egypt’s CIB looks to east Africa for growth
Commercial International Bank (CIB) announced the opening of an Addis Ababa office on April 18, with the aim of improving the bank’s knowledge of the Ethiopian market, strengthening its relationships with local banks and promoting Egyptian exports to the country....
CSR: Going guerrilla on finance
As Euromoney celebrates its 50th year, I was curious to research where the world was in 1969. I have been left intrigued by the advancements of five decades but also by the similarities between then and now. In 1969, social...
Transaction services: Middlemen aim to smooth bumps in trading relationships
Online business-to-business marketplaces are growing in number, and many are thriving. According to a recent report published by market research company Forrester, the value of B2B e-commerce in the US alone will reach $1.8 trillion by 2023, up from $1.1...
Risk experts never doubted Indonesia
Going places: Jokowi eases through the barriers of the new Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit to continue his journey as Indonesian president Presidential and parliamentary elections held together for the first time in Indonesia earlier in April could be described as...