Now Mugabe is gone, one of the poorest nations in southern Africa can see the first signs of interest from international investors, but a chaotic currency regime, heavily indebted economy and looming elections are turning initial euphoria into cautious optimism.

South Africa’s new deputy finance minister took a tough stance on corruption under former president Jacob Zuma – now Mondli Gungubele talks to Euromoney about the embarrassing Zuma years and the Ramaphosa government’s plans to turn the economy around.

Distributed ledger technology could be answer to GDPR for banks worried their legacy systems will struggle to cope with customer rights over their records.

The deadline for registering statements of commitment for the global code is only a day away, and market participants are reporting difficulties finding who has signed up, with statements spread out across eight registers – but GFXC has a plan to alleviate the problem.

Asiamoney invites fund managers, buy-side analysts, as well as bankers and ratings agencies to participate in the 2018 Asia’s Outstanding Companies Poll.

Senior institutional investors from around the world assess their sell-side banks and brokerage firms for Asian equities.

Banks are proving so slow to collaborate on blockchain protocols that could reduce costs in financial markets that it almost looks as if they wish to profit from persistent inefficiency.

Open banking might soon become the new standard for retail deposits in Europe as growth accelerates at the German platform service.