By DOMINIC O’NEILL
Scandals and losses are ending the co-dependency between European banks and retail shareholders, highlighting the conflict of interest in relying on depositors for capital – and showing up a barrier to Europe’s new bail-in framework.
By PETER LEE
A string of jumbo strategic corporate deals made 2018 one of the busiest years ever in M&A, but falling equity markets, slowing economies, rising debt costs and geopolitical uncertainties have now dimmed the outlook severely.
By LOUISE BOWMAN
The amount of dry powder that private equity firms now have means they are sometimes putting even more than 50% equity into deals – it’s a huge cushion that is contributing to reckless lending behaviour in the debt markets.
By CHRIS WRIGHT
It is worth over $50 billion and its deals are among the most important and influential in Asia, it is at the vanguard of Chinese private equity and yet it talks to nobody, but market participants in Asia and beyond need to understand it.
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.
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.
In Africa, digital payments are still the future, not the present.
By CHRIS WRIGHT
The decision of Singapore regulators not to allow Noble to re-list wrecks a 19-month restructuring process and points towards insolvency.
By LOUISE BOWMAN
The utility’s sustainability performance will partly determine the cost of servicing its new bank credit line, with any savings going to charity.
By KANIKA SAIGAL
The continent is implementing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement to boost intra-regional trade, economic growth and industrialization, but can 54 countries overcome so many obstacles and ratify the agreement?
By ELLIOT WILSON
The corporate titans that have dominated Hong Kong’s economy for decades are slowly handing over the reins of power to the next generation, but will they prove as loyal to international investment banks as their parents have been?
By KANIKA SAIGAL
Bankers believe that Vivo Energy’s dual listing in May has opened the taps on the IPO pipeline in Africa, but with primary equity markets suffering globally, is the continent really an exception?
By DOMINIC O’NEILL
Lay-offs part of 'disciplined' strategy targeting growth in UK and US.
Banks in the eurozone periphery have need, and some justification, for a new targeted LTRO.
UniCredit’s €3 billion deal is a harsh demonstration of market dynamics.
Euromoney’s survey experts doubt that Jair Bolsonaro will make a successful stab at the presidency, as his controversial personal style and lack of experience make it difficult to legislate for reforms.
The tests say little about the increased or decreased risks to bank stability, but Euromoney’s country risk survey can help fill in the gaps.
A reform-minded government and resilient economy have instilled confidence in Chile’s prospects among analysts, despite the risks.
