One PR chief goes coy on the prospects of a traditionally convivial night during the IMF meetings after a recent change in senior management

Stefano Visalli, founder and managing partner of Oxy Capital, gets right to the heart of Italian banks’ bad-debt problem

Former City spin doctor is now one of the key lieutenants to UK prime minister Theresa May.

One bank in the US has come up with a failsafe way to increase footfall in its branches – place Pokémon Go characters there. Florida-based CenterState Bank decided to cash in on the popularity of the augmented reality game last month by placing lures in two of its branches in Lakeland and Jacksonville.

Does life imitate art, or art life? This is one of the deeper questions to arise from the ever-expanding 1MDB scandal in Malaysia, where in late July the US Department of Justice moved to seize $1 billion in assets as part of its anti-money laundering investigation into the sovereign fund.

Francisco González, executive chairman of BBVA

Both tasks suggested by this banker seem equally impossible at this stage, to be honest

CEOs offer their tips for the best holiday books that ambitious bankers should be devouring

Singapore’s ever-changing waterfront was revamped afresh in June with the arrival of a five-storey-high inflatable slide across the road from the Marina Bay Financial Centre.

When Deutsche Bank launched its magazine Konzept in November 2014, then co-CEO Anshu Jain described it (rather bizarrely for a print magazine) as “a new way of delivering its best ideas to clients and the wider world”.

View results This banker’s pitch is long on enthusiasm but short on detail

Apologies came more easily than smiles as Michael Sherwood, Goldman’s top UK banker, explained on Tuesday the firm’s relationship with Philip Green, and gave MPs the lowdown on how investment banking works.

Star photographer Annie Leibovitz was in Singapore recently, promoting a new exhibition commissioned by UBS.

ICMA’s annual gathering in May kicked off this year with a speedy whizz through key global events since 1963, when the association was launched.

When an investment bank sponsors a national award in investigative business journalism, there will occasionally be inevitable tension between the bank that rewards the journalism while also being on the receiving end of it.

Doubts that are helping to keen the share price of Barclays at well below book value – just one of the challenges that new CEO Jes Staley faces

The chairman of one of the world’s biggest banks apologises for the size of his company’s annual report, which his PR chief had just handed to us

Congratulations to Schroders for an unexpected and extraordinary triumph in piling in on Leicester City’s coronation as English football champions at the weekend.

Rhydian Lewis, co-founder of UK marketplace lender RateSetter, is calling for the death of banking as we know it, and visited the House of Commons in London in April as part of his campaign.

Diversification, as any portfolio manager will tell you, can cap downside risk and even boost smart beta across the board. But is it also true in the real economy? Some think there’s evidence – albeit of a correlational, rather than the causal, kind – that it can.

Shaukat Aziz has had a remarkable career, from a 30-year stint as a senior executive in Citibank’s global empire to a period in politics, first as finance minister and then as prime minister of his native Pakistan.

Mayfair, April 2016: an increasingly common sight on the UK capital’s streets.

Martin Blessing may have stepped down as CEO of Commerzbank, but it does not sound like he is done with banking

After a tour of the leading lights of Silicon Valley, this bank CEO wasn’t so sure tech giants like Apple and Amazon really wanted to become banks

The CEO of one leading European bank has some sympathy for peers that are struggling to deliver positive results for their banks, and thereby raising questions about their futures

Banque de France’s Robert Ophèle does a regulator’s take on Bob Diamond’s old line about an end to banker bashing

February brings with it the cherished annual sight of ANZ coming out in flamboyant fashion ahead of Sydney’s Mardi Gras festival.

Stuck to a phone booth in Zurich.

BNP Paribas takes the issue of diversity in the workplace very seriously. A quick glance at its website tells you as much.

It is tempting to wonder if the Libyan Investment Authority’s actions against Goldman Sachs and Société Générale could end up going the same way as Jarndyce and Jarndyce.