Western Europe

Banking

Digital banking: Tech elite size up investment banking opportunity

Outsourcing technology brings rewards – and risks

Banking

Scottish separatist momentum shock shakes up banking

Banking

Emilio Botín, the best banker of his generation, dies

Capital markets

ECB jumps gun with ABS purchase programme

Capital markets

ICMA tackles activist sovereign holdouts

Corporate banking

Concerns rise about intraday liquidity risk reporting as 2015 deadline looms

Private banking

International tax provisions crush Swiss banks

Banking

Greece seeks swifter NPL resolution regime

Rising Bitcoin adoption emboldens crypto-enthusiasts

Corporate banking

South-south trade flows come of age

Falling US real rates complicate Fed-ECB divergence story