Are stablecoins the reinvention of money?
By PETER LEE
Even as the most infamous cryptocurrencies crashed this year, new ones were already emerging, designed to peg their value to fiat currencies.
Asset management: Should Europe’s banks buy back into the buy side?
By DOMINIC O’NEILL
Asset management is one of the few opportunities European banks have for growth and good returns, but regulation is challenging the captive market and margins are falling.
Banking resolution: BRRD on the run
By LOUISE BOWMAN
Even its main architects admit that Europe’s banking resolution directive is fundamentally flawed – and they are in a desperate race to fix its failure to deal with funding and liquidity crises before the next bank collapse occurs.
The carrot and stick that completed Iceland’s banking resolution
By PHILIP MOORE
Part two: The fallout from Iceland’s banking crisis rumbled on for seven years.
Impact banking: Can this generation of leaders change banking for good?
By HELEN AVERY and PETER LEE
From the United Nations and the European Commission to customers and shareholders, the world’s banks face increasing pressure not only to consider their broader role in society but also to take actions that have a positive impact on it.
Euromoney Podcasts: Treasury and Turbulence
Stories of corporate treasury innovating to mitigate external threats.
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Emerging Europe IPO trio gets a mixed reception from wary investors
By LUCY FITZGEORGE-PARKER
Slovenian, Kazakh governments deliver on privatization promises, while price concerns scupper listing plans of Belarusian retailer Eurotorg.
Ping An’s Voyager brings good health to PE
By CHRIS WRIGHT
The fund is deploying $1 billion of the Chinese group’s money into digital medicine and fintech around the world, but profit is not its main ambition.
Will Brazil’s ECM bankers get in their own way?
By ROB DWYER
Buyers and sellers need to show some discipline.
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Asset management: Should Europe’s banks buy back into the buy side?
By DOMINIC O’NEILL
Asset management is one of the few opportunities European banks have for growth and good returns, but regulation is challenging the captive market and margins are falling.
Banking resolution: BRRD on the run
By LOUISE BOWMAN
Even its main architects admit that Europe’s banking resolution directive is fundamentally flawed – and they are in a desperate race to fix its failure to deal with funding and liquidity crises before the next bank collapse occurs.
Monetary policy: Argentina takes its bitter medicine
By ROB DWYER
Another financial crisis has rocked the country.
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Peru’s low risks call for A-ratings across the board
With analysts rating Peru a similar risk to China and Malaysia, Euromoney’s survey indicates that Fitch and Standard & Poor’s should upgrade in line with Moody’s.
Reforms and improved security bolster Egypt’s risk rating
The country is powering ahead as it seeks to tap $20 billion in foreign-currency borrowings through to 2022, starting with Pandas and Samurais, and a $5 billion Eurobond.
Country risk: Asia more resilient than volatility suggests
The region contains countries with current-account surpluses that will benefit from trade relocation from China.
Banking more stories
RBS kicks off wave of digital bank offshoots
By DOMINIC O’NEILL
Mettle starts digital-bank spawn from leading UK lenders; new IT system to enable more user-friendly design.
Investors on high alert for signs of weakness at Italian banks
By PETER LEE
Investors worry that volatility in Italian government bond prices may leave some Italian banks needing to raise capital just as the markets close to them.
Why Spain’s hostile environment matters even to its global banks
Large numbers of domestic retail shareholders mean that public ill-will in Spain hurts Santander and BBVA just as much as other more domestic-focused lenders.
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A deal slump tests LatAm DCM bankers
By BEN EDWARDS
Emerging Europe IPO trio gets a mixed reception from wary investors
By LUCY FITZGEORGE-PARKER
Ping An’s Voyager brings good health to PE
By CHRIS WRIGHT
