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.
By HELEN AVERY
Any important new market needs its innovators, cheerleaders and pioneers… As banks try to build more responsible and sustainable businesses, these are the champions of impact banking at 10 of the world’s biggest firms.
By PHILIP MOORE
Iceland’s banking crisis still fascinates and appals in equal measure.
By GRAHAM BIPPART
There’s a rush to find an alternative to ‘ibors’, but with just three years to go before banks might stop submitting Libor altogether, regulators and market participants are still trying to figure out the right questions to ask.
By PETER LEE
It took an outsider to turn around Credit Suisse, to force executives and shareholders to accept that they had been following a false dream of a trading-dominated business that could somehow avoid blow-ups and produce acceptable returns.
Stories of corporate treasury innovating to mitigate external threats.
Following a recent warning from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that banks were facing the possibility of an imminent global cyberattack targeting ATMs, banks are being urged to review the operating systems used to run the machines and the security measures in place to detect and prevent cybercrime.
European bank chief executives speak obsessively to Euromoney about new and rebooted digital banking arms – read on for a guide to Dominic O’Neill’s in-depth examination of the strategy and rationale behind these projects, and their chances of success.
By DOMINIC O’NEILL
Partnership could replace broken Barclays links; follows rumours of sale of Société Générale South Africa custody unit to Absa.
By HELEN AVERY
Any important new market needs its innovators, cheerleaders and pioneers… As banks try to build more responsible and sustainable businesses, these are the champions of impact banking at 10 of the world’s biggest firms.
By CHRIS WRIGHT
Islamic finance has become too focused on getting arcane structures to be technically Shariah compliant, but a new initiative in Malaysia attempts to make Islamic finance socially positive once more – and to measure its success.
By LUCY FITZGEORGE-PARKER
The transition to capitalism has brought prosperity to much of emerging Europe but left large sections of society struggling to catch up – now Austria’s Erste Group is going back to its roots to bring prosperity to the region through social banking.
Choosing the right path will open up new investment opportunities.
Highly leveraged and discomfited by escalating tariffs, the world’s most populous nation is holding steady in Euromoney’s survey, with a stronger risk profile than other Brics.
By CHRIS WRIGHT
Islamic finance has become too focused on getting arcane structures to be technically Shariah compliant, but a new initiative in Malaysia attempts to make Islamic finance socially positive once more – and to measure its success.
By LUCY FITZGEORGE-PARKER
The transition to capitalism has brought prosperity to much of emerging Europe but left large sections of society struggling to catch up – now Austria’s Erste Group is going back to its roots to bring prosperity to the region through social banking.
By HELEN AVERY
Vancity is the largest credit union in Canada, but by 2007 it was acting like a commercial bank – yet now, after steering every part of the business back to being mission-based, it is delivering record profits, lower risk, new membership and improved employee engagement.
By ELLIOT WILSON
By LUCY FITZGEORGE-PARKER
By ROB DWYER
By DOMINIC O’NEILL
By DOMINIC O’NEILL
By CHRIS WRIGHT
By LUCY FITZGEORGE-PARKER
By LUCY FITZGEORGE-PARKER
