September brought Formula One to Singapore once again, and with it the usual draconian restrictions on advertising by anyone who is not firmly contracted to F1.

In early October, Euromoney accepts an invitation to Bloomberg’s inaugural ETF event, at which the future of these popular investment vehicles is to be chewed over in detail.

Front End went to our local DBS bank branch in Singapore to find it had been closed – sorry, not closed: merged.

A visit to the executive dining floor at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Bryant Park headquarters in Manhattan is always a pleasure.

It has been a challenging few years in emerging market banking, so it is hard to blame lenders for wanting to put a positive spin on difficult situations.

Asia-based payment wallet fintechs like to boast that they involve themselves in every area of a customer’s life.

One interesting diversion in the vast and sprawling 1MDB scandal is working out which movie might be dragged into it next.

The challenge has become a regular fixture in Singapore, an annual 5.6-kilometre run from the city’s National Gallery to its F1 Pit Building.

China’s landmark Belt and Road Forum – not, we are told, to be abbreviated as Barf – has been hailed as a success for the country’s sprawling infrastructure agenda.

Who said marketing stands at banking conferences have to be dreary?

The one-year anniversary of the UK vote to leave the European Union is fast approaching and still most banks clustered in London haven’t disclosed plans to relocate staff to deal with EU clients, senior management to answer to regulators, or even any support staff.

Steve Ashley, head of wholesale and global markets at Nomura, is bullish after the international arm of the Japanese securities house delivered a profit

This investment banker believes the importance of having relationship business all the way down the corporate ladder is limited when it comes to winning lucrative advisory mandates

Ant Financial’s Jia Hang confirms suspicions that the scope of Jack Ma’s ambitions in finance are very great indeed

In the small German city of Bochum on March 31, Bundesbank executive board member Andreas Dombret made a heartfelt paean to Rolf Gerlach, exiting president of one of Germany’s savings banks associations, at the latter’s leaving do.

All sorts of things can go wrong when you start pledging cows as collateral.

On April 21, Donald Trump directed his treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, to begin the administration’s long anticipated attack on the Orderly Liquidation Authority, created as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act to ensure the smooth management of US banks at risk of failure.

An insider explains the Indonesian finance minister’s ire with JPMorgan

The sad death of Australian-Kiwi satirist John Clarke causes us to remember with a smile the time Euromoney was sent up in the great man’s Clarke and Dawe segment, a post-news staple on Australia’s ABC network since the 1990s.

Lloyd Blankfein’s swingeing cost cuts at Goldman Sachs really hit bankers where it hurts in March: their phones. No longer will their employer simply pick up the tab for their smartphone usage – Goldman bankers now face the indignity of having to itemise their monthly bills and (good grief!) claim their money back.

Who’d be a regulator? David Tweedie, who was chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board for a decade right through the global financial crisis, knows more than most about the challenges involved.

There just aren’t enough bankers in the US government, said no one ever… oh, except the American Bankers Association.

Money laundering is surely one of the most persistent and pervasive risks faced by banks. The practice is said to be just as common in the Middle East as anywhere else. So how do financial institutions there train their staff to deal with this threat?

Christian Meissner, head of GCIB at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has changed his own outlook to the long term, while forcing his division to do the same

An HSBC insider reacts to news that Mark Tucker, chief executive of Hong Kong-based insurer AIA, will be the next chairman of the bank

Rumours that hip hop musician will.i.am might be about to announce a tie-up with UK start-up Atom Bank raises the intriguing possibility that the man behind classics like Elephunk might be about to make board meetings even cooler than they presumably already are at the mobile-only bank.

Lloyd Blankfein may think that Goldman Sachs’ bankers have a monopoly on doing God’s work, but HSBC seems to be giving the US firm a run for its money.

Samuel Tsien, the CEO of Singapore’s OCBC Bank, was in the mood for love…

The Inter-American Development Bank’s decision to hold its annual meetings in Asuncion this year has been well received domestically as validation of Paraguay’s strong recent economic growth and free-trade policies.

The considerable wealth of Mike Smith, former ANZ CEO and long-time HSBC globetrotter, is a subject of some contention among Australian investors who feel he earned a ton of cash for eroding shareholder value during his time at the helm of the Australian bank.