Investment banking: Darwinian capital markets
“Absent a serious effort to amplify their strengths and address their weaknesses, it’s hard to imagine how investment banks will be able to sustain growth in an oversupplied, rapidly commoditizing and increasingly disintermediated industry.” Boston Consulting Group doesn’t pull any...
CEE central banks under siege
Turkey’s president took advantage of a trip to London in May to respond to investor concerns about his country’s collapsing currency by promising to wrest control of monetary policy from the central bank. While deplorable, this is hardly surprising. Recep...
Shareholders snub EBRD’s African ambitions
Much to the delight of sun-starved Europeans, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s annual meeting was held this year on the banks of the Dead Sea in Jordan. It was the first time the bank’s staff and followers had...
Impact investment: Small is beautiful
The impact investment community has seen a surge of enthusiasm of late. At the end of April, KKR became the latest private equity firm to announce a billion-dollar impact investing fund that will reportedly focus on themes tied to the...
Macaskill on markets: Goldman takes pole position for Volcker Rule 2.0
Two of the three global securities co-heads will retire in a move that seemed to be partly timed to spare them the indignity of taking public blame for last year’s trading problems. Management dynamics were also at play in the...
Sideways: Wall Street’s Washington takeover
Craig Phillips was hired by Mnuchin as a counsellor in January 2017 It can instead be viewed as a takeover of Washington roles by Wall Street. Trump shows little interest in the details of key foreign policy issues such as...
Risk metrics favour Portugal despite Italy contagion
Rosy outlook: Portugal’s tourism revenue is on course for another strong year A global economy slowing down, oil prices rising, the prospect of repeat elections in Italy with a populist government aiming to take control… They are hardly the recipe...
ANZ cartel case has Australian banking in further turmoil
The threat of criminal charges has turned a three-year-old ANZ share placement from being just another reputational headache in Australian banking to something that has bankers seriously alarmed. On Friday, two separate regulatory groups announced proceedings related to a A$2.5...
Banks versus fintechs #2: Tension builds with regtech innovation
On the banks’ side, there have been pushes forward. For example, JPMorgan has developed its Data Once platform to streamline know-your-customer compliance. Launched in March, the unique selling point of the product is self-explanatory: customers just need to input their...
FX Survey 2018: Traders warn buy side must embrace the FX Code too
Adoption has continued to increase since then, and all of the top 10 FX banks from the 2017 Euromoney survey have now signed up. But some practitioners are concerned that adherence is not consistent across the whole market and more...
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