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More focus on keeping a client happy than keeping the bank solvent; a risk management department that wasn’t tough enough and enabled bad practice; a willful reduction in margin; and two co-heads who each believed the other ran the relevant business. The report into Credit Suisse’s Archegos debacle makes grim reading.
The Swiss bank claims a resilient performance lies beneath the meagre returns after de-risking post-Archegos and Greensill, but big questions remain.
Barclays wants to be compared with the big five US investment banks. So let’s do that.
We are at the peak of the hype cycle for central bank digital currencies, now being touted as one of the most fundamental innovations in the history of central banking. It is time for central banks and governments to be honest with unenthused populations.
Non-resident Indians are a powerful force in wealth management from New York to Singapore. But as the pandemic devastates the subcontinent, this vast diaspora is reassessing its priorities.
Uche Orji is approaching 10 years as head of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority. Covid spurred a year of outstanding market returns, but now Orji’s focus is on domestic infrastructure before he steps down next year.
Private equity has been slow to join the ESG revolution. More firms are waking up to the opportunities on offer as well as the downside risks.
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Guaranty Trust Bank’s chief executive Segun Agbaje is confident what to expect in the next five years -
Chief executive Bruce Van Saun highlights the benefits of Citizens’ forward-looking agenda
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Uche Orji, chief executive of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, looks to the Singaporean SWFs
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Antony Welfare, executive director at blockchain company NEM, sees CBDC as part of rebuilding the system
The big six US banks are releasing the loan loss reserves they built up in the pandemic. Where might this end? The answer could be surprising.
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