Since the financial crisis, plenty of former bankers have sought to restart their careers in a completely new environment. But few have taken the change as far as Heidi Golding.

A top executive at a leading European bank questions the credibility of the firm’s new leadership

-John Cryan, co-CEO of Deutsche Bank, knows his options are limited as he tries to halt the bank’s decline

First there was M-Pesa, Kenya’s innovative and highly popular text-banking service that turned mobile phones into mobile ATMs, transferring money by SMS.

Neel Kashkari has wasted little time in promoting his personal brand as the new president of the Minneapolis Fed.

When attending green finance events Euromoney has been amused and astounded by the inventive ways conference organisers can support the cause.

Argentina’s new Macri government seems to have radically altered the country’s business and financial climate, but not everyone is necessarily benefiting.

“He’s got an important client meeting in Australia. He’s setting off tomorrow”

Goldman Sachs launched an apprenticeship programme in partnership with Queen Mary University of London in late January.

It wasn’t quite John Simpson on the plane with the Ayatollah returning to Iran in 1979, but nonetheless Euromoney experienced a bit of history in January.

As the UK’s tax deadline day loomed at the end of January, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs helpfully sent out a reminder to editors that it is not a body to be messed with.

Is there a finer name in all of financial services than Sherwood Dodge?

“These are proprietary numbers and we don’t want to share them widely..."

“We now refer to Puerto Rico and its restructuring plans as the Kardashians. Everyone wants to talk about it but there really is no point”

“If I stop my so-called bulimic development, in five years I would have no debts…then what? That would be stupid because I would not have grown for five years”

“Best wishes for a great 20165!”

What are Gupta, McKay and Blankfein doing to get their troops onside where the likes of Stumpf, Moynihan and Gulliver lag behind? And at what point does a poor approval rate from your employees spell danger?

Investor access, for the first time, to a basket of Indian public-sector bonds through an ETF listed in London has elicited sceptical groans, not because it poses liquidity risks or that corporate governance and transparency of the underlying securities barely conform to international best practice.

Three days before Facebook’s market debut in May 2012, underwriting banks increased the IPO price range from between $28 and $35 to between $35 and $38 and the deal was priced at $38.

Sandy Frucher, Nasdaq

A year ago, we at Euromoney marvelled at the near perennial progression of personages passing through the portals of Bucharest’s finance ministry in the 25 years since Romania’s tyrannical Nicolae Ceaucescu was toppled: 21 finance ministers since 1989.

“Fixed income is the area in the firing line because it used to make so much of the money but now accounts for so much of the leverage”

“Fitch could decide to do this but if they did we would simply ignore it”

“I’m absolutely delighted. He once told the CEO in a management committee meeting that he was like a second father to him. We all wanted to be sick”

"My role has flipped in a matter of months from trying to interest people here in thinking differently about the potential of the blockchain to struggling to contain their expectations. It isn’t the answer to all banks’ problems”

Rumours about the future domicile of HSBC have now reached silly-season proportions.

What unites Jaime Caruana, the head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Stanley Fischer, a veteran monetary official and now vice-chairman of the Fed, and Elvira Nabiullina, the Russian central bank governor?

October 21 was a monumental day in history. It was a day celebrated across the globe. A day that some had waited over 25 years for. It was Back to the Future Day.

The work being done by banks globally in the corporate and social responsibility sectors continues to impress.

Places and events where you can guarantee to bump into the elite of the banking industry are not that frequent: there’s the IMF and Davos, of course, and the Chelsea Flower Show, and certain members’ clubs in London; plus, we should not forget to mention, Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence dinner.