China unveiled a plan for its first national parks on Friday, the final day of the COP15 conference in Kunming. It reveals the weight of Party concerns about pollution and biodiversity fragmentation, and their impact on political stability.

The banking sector will never pick its way through the climate change jungle without harmonized regulations. To meet global risks, a global sector needs global standards. It is time for Basel V.

With in-house asset managers in vogue, UniCredit chief executive Andrea Orcel might try to revisit the bank’s sale of Pioneer to Amundi.

The rising price of oil and gas in this recovery underlines the need for much greater investment in clean energy.

President Joe Biden’s next round of regulatory nominations might make this year’s surge of regional bank M&A short lived.

Investors must understand the limits of regulatory efforts to measure climate stress at banks.

Relief on dividends is not enough to propel the sector back to greatness.

Brazil’s central bank attempts to redress the country’s woeful environmental reputation with climate-related stress tests.

Evergrande is in trouble, drowning in debt and besieged by angry investors. It is bad news for shareholders, but it also raises harder and darker questions about investing in China.

Other Latin American countries watch with interest as El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment gets off to a faltering start.

DeFi is not a strategic asset allocation for mainstream investors yet, but big gains on cryptos and now high yields are drawing in the front runners.

Deutsche Bank’s restructuring has not been thrown off course by the pandemic, but upside surprises can hide risks. Discipline will be needed to avoid the temptations of the past.

No access to reserves, sinking currency, soaring inflation. Now what?

The new SDR programme raises more questions than it answers.

In September, the EU will issue bills through the auction system operated by the Banque de France for the French Trésor. But they will not immediately be a reference safe asset for European capital markets.

ESG issues are part of the package with emerging market sovereign bonds.

The European Commission keeps pressing, but a consolidated tape for bonds is not yet realistic – and firms should use AI analytics to create a quasi-tape.

Many are still a long way from understanding the risk climate change poses to their businesses.

The closer central banks come to hard design choices over retail central bank digital currencies, the less clear cut the case is to proceed with them.

Banks received a mostly clean bill of health from the Federal Reserve’s latest stress tests. After a catastrophe like Covid, does that mean the sector is now safe?

Bank CEOs do not like it, but the regulators are fostering competition.

Naysayers were swift to condemn Lithuanian involvement in the German scandal.

The Spac bubble has burst, and while European exchanges try to attract more deals, sponsors that listed in the boom will soon be struggling.

With the acquisition of 80 east coast branches and a slug of online deposits, Citizens has added even more firepower to its national expansion ambitions.

With Goldman and AmBank behind it, Malaysia aims further afield with lawsuits.

Norway pulls out of West Bank-linked companies; Mubadala and Temasek invest in tech and energy.

Other funds have shown how shareholder activism can work in financial stocks, especially in Europe.

While doubling of profit at the investment bank stood out, it was not the bank’s only strong performer.

In recent years, Brazil has endured famine, flood and pestilence. What’s next?

Anthony Tan’s 60% control of the Singaporean fintech’s voting power shows what founders can get away with when spared the rigour of an IPO.