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Banks face a payments dilemma of either collaborating with fintechs or developing systems in-house, and the same issue is now arising in the approach to regulation and the best way to digitize compliance.

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Euromoney magazine has released the results of its 40th annual foreign exchange ranking, the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative annual study available on the FX markets.

…if you’re big, fast or specialized in modern foreign exchange. That has led to dramatic changes in the volume-based rankings in our annual survey. Meanwhile, new customer satisfaction ratings give a different insight into the banks’ relationships with their clients.

The findings of JPMorgan’s 2018 e-trading survey underlined yet again the importance of effective execution policies and systems.

JPMorgan’s annual institutional e-trading survey shows rising appetite for mobile trading, but growth in algo execution has been slower than anticipated.

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UBS Wealth Management voted best global private bank; private banks more bullish on revenues; hiring to increase.

While tax reform charges make a bad year worse for US banks, the timing of the law sets the scene for better results in 2018. But the fundamentals may not change: trading is bad, financing is good.

Banks are booking big charges in the fourth quarter, but the domestic names are sitting pretty for the future as US taxes fall.

No one doubts JPMorgan's global influence, but it still needs to fill some holes in its corporate bank

Several trends emerge from the year-to-date league tables, and not everyone will like them.

Banks face lawsuits over pay inequity as regulators now take diversity into their own hands.

And the big three – State Street, JPMorgan and BNY Mellon – will only be stronger.

Delegates at this year’s IMF/World Bank meetings are managing to look beyond macro concerns to present a more upbeat tone.

As more retail and high-net-worth investors embrace cryptocurrency, lightly structured delta-one synthetics now allow institutional investors to allocate to a new asset class.

Treasurers are exploring the investment options open to them in the face of continued low interest rates and money market reforms.

As JPMorgan’s head of markets execution, David Hudson has an ambitious mandate to bring technological innovation and a willingness to fail to the heart of the investment bank, but why is he “obsessed” with Amazon?

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Euromoney magazine has released the results of the 2017 Fixed Income Research Survey.

The automation of sophisticated treasury methods by assessing data flows is enabling expanding companies to reduce the uncertainty around cash flows and FX rates.

The chief executives of US banks have spent so long complaining about regulations that they can scarcely believe their luck at the impending relaxation.

The banking industry has stopped fretting about a full-on Brexodus of jobs to other EU cities outside of London and started worrying about what comes next.

Euromoney has never before given an award in Afghanistan, but the story of Azizi Bank is compelling. Formed by an ethnic business group in 2006 and owned by Dubai’s Azizi Group, it took over the Development Bank of Afghanistan from the central bank in 2009, then India’s Punjab National Bank in 2014. It is Afghanistan’s largest commercial bank, with more than 140 branches and a million customers, and employs 2,300 people, 17% of them women, which does not sound a lot but matters in Afghanistan.

JPMorgan wins Euromoney’s award for excellence in providing clients with financing.

Investment bankers covering CEE breathed a sigh of relief last year as their market sprang back to life after two years in the doldrums. Eurobond sales from the region rose nearly 60% in the 12 months to March from a year earlier, according to Dealogic, while primary equity issuance more than trebled. The trend was less marked in M&A, which had proved more resilient during the regional downturn, but a 28% increase in transaction volumes was nonetheless welcome.

The top firms this year look like they haven’t moved in 18 years. How can nearly two decades of upheaval appear to have altered the rankings so little in Euromoney’s foreign exchange survey?