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Next month, all UK employers with more than 250 workers must disclose the gender pay gaps for both salary and bonus.
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Forget your bikini-clad full moon party bitcoin events, because it doesn’t get any cooler than the annual Polar Bear Pitching in Oulu, Finland.
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February marked the start of the Chinese Year of the Dog – it is a moment when it is common for analysts to take a light-hearted look at what Chinese astrology might mean for the markets in the year ahead.
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Cross-border exchange cooperation is back in focus in Asia – and at scale.
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Barclays CEO has to deliver now he has the bank the way he says he wants it to be.
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Family offices looking for yield need to be extra vigilant as the cycle turns.
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South Africa’s reputation for insalubrious dealings under Zuma makes it fertile ground for maverick short-sellers.
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For too long, the country has been at the top of the world’s news agenda for all the wrong reasons.
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Blue finance is set to take off this year, buoyed by growing appetite for investments in sustainable fisheries, conservation and alternative plastics. It’s further evidence of the influence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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When banks get around to reporting first-quarter 2018 results in April (the US banks) and May (the Europeans), it is already safe to say that their fixed income, currencies and commodities numbers will look particularly good.
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An investment of around $10 billion in shares of a reinsurance firm does not seem like an obvious move for a technology conglomerate like SoftBank, but its founder Masayoshi Son relishes any opportunity to surprise the markets.
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Outsiders struggling to make sense of the investing tactics of SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son can take some comfort: his own directors often seem just as puzzled.
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India threatens cryptocurrency crackdown; Ripple argues it has a remittance model.
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Big Society Capital hits £600 million; Portugal, Japan, Israel adopt model.
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Everyone used to want to be on the sell side; now they want to be on the buy side.
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Have banks finally learned not to hold their customers in contempt?
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After a year in the recovery ward, 2017 results show some banks are healing. The most serious illness, negative rates, is stubbornly resistant however. The danger remains that banks may not recover before another disease –financial or technological – strikes.
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Most new challengers are attacking retail, but a few ingenious startups are moving into the more fragmented and poorly served small business market. It is here that concepts of open banking and banking as a platform may first become real.
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Financial markets are woefully underdeveloped in this oil- and gas-rich country. For Baiduri Bank, which is mulling a listing in Kuala Lumpur, that makes growing a tough proposition.
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With the acquisition of Indonesia’s Bank Danamon, MUFG has built a network of southeast Asia bank stakes to go with its presence in the US. Now comes the hard part: persuading them to work together. CFO Aki Tokunari explains MUFG’s international strategy.
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Last year was a record for high yield in Asia, and 2018 has started strongly despite volatility. But behind the scenes there are concerns about an unpredictable regulator controlling supply and worsening practices among unfamiliar bookrunners.
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Three years ago, Raiffeisen Bank International was on the casualty list – today it is again one of the best-performing banks in Europe. New chief executive Johann Strobl discusses restructuring, regulation and getting back to ‘real banking’.
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A former social worker from middle England has suddenly become the biggest influencer in South Africa’s stock market. He called Steinhoff’s collapse correctly. In making banking sector star performer Capitec his next target, has Viceroy Research’s Fraser Perring got it right again? Or, as the bank’s leadership insist, is he a one-hit wonder?
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Collect everything and store it for ever, or only collect some data and destroy it as soon as possible? That is the question facing bank compliance officers struggling with Mifid II and GDPR.
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Some of Africa’s largest banks, as well as its budding fintech firms, are building up their remittance offerings. It is an area largely deserted by global banks wary of regulatory risk, but one that is crucial to the region’s economic future.
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From late-night beginnings in suburban Sydney, a new payments system is transforming shopping down under – and possibly beyond. Meet the two entrepreneurs behind this fintech hotshop.
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Michal Krupinski looks to shake off the legacy of UniCredit with big plans for Poland’s second-largest lender. But will he be given a chance to implement them?
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The recent price collapse shows how far bitcoin and the rest have veered from working like currencies, but one cryptocurrency just wants to be used to pay for stuff.
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) director in charge of stamping out market abuse sees her work as a dialogue with the industry.
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NYSE too strong a lure for tech companies; Latin America needs ‘IPO catch-up’.
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Efforts to improve the speed of payments being made to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has not seen success, so technology might be used to fill the gap.
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Carve out of NPL servicing; minority owner sought for Eurizon.
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The Coincheck cryptocurrency fraud has rocked Japan, which had been the first country in the world to build a regulatory environment for crypto exchanges. The FSA regulator briefs Euromoney on how it built its rules and what Coincheck means for the future.
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Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein wants to remind everyone of the importance of non-static resource commitments – and how they can move in both directions.
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Deutsche’s CEO is telling the world just how much the bank still needs to do to improve, but struggles to make investors see the cost of fixing things as investing for the future.