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BANKING

Nubank: Credit where it’s due

The Brazilian neobank is growing its number of clients faster than perhaps any financial institution on earth. Combine this with static unit costs and the operational leverage potential is big. CFO Guilherme Lago explains how its business model is now focused on the next five to 10 years as open banking generates unprecedented price transparency, customer portability and opportunity.

Rob Dwyer, April 24, 2024

Opinion

SBTi: Don’t hate the player

The standards-setter has come under fire for announcing plans to allow companies to offset Scope 3 emissions as part of net-zero targets. But this kind of compromise has always been inevitable.

April 23, 2024

BANKING

How worried should we be about private credit?

A private credit market growing so fast, away from the oversight of bank regulators, may be a new source of systemic risk. With smaller investors taking greater exposure to an asset class whose high returns and low losses look almost too good to be true, there could be trouble ahead.

Peter Lee, April 23, 2024

Opinion

Sideways: The bankers are coming for AI!

Junior bankers should relax about the threat to their jobs from AI and lean into opportunities to bluff their way to Wall Street glory.

Jon Macaskill, April 19, 2024

BANKING

Why incumbents keep building neobanks

Intesa Sanpaolo’s Isybank is the latest in-house neobank to run into trouble. But the desire to migrate core-banking systems onto the cloud is still encouraging other banks to follow this strategy.

Dominic O’Neill, April 18, 2024

Treasury

UK CFOs remain cautious but optimistic, Deloitte finds

Quarterly survey reveals that UK finance professionals may be feeling more upbeat about prospects, but that this is yet to translate into a willingness to take greater risk onto balance sheets.

Paul Golden, April 18, 2024

Opinion

Macaskill on markets: How to win the rate-hike PR war

A move back up in rates is creating a PR battle among Wall Street banks. JPMorgan was punished for a cautious outlook, Goldman Sachs promoted strong fixed income trading results and Bank of America projected a Zen approach to rate moves.

Jon Macaskill, April 17, 2024

Fintech

Fintechs fret about lack of scale-up funding

UK fintechs attracted more investment than all European rivals combined in a tough funding market last year, but a broken IPO market leaves them with nowhere to go.

Peter Lee, April 17, 2024

Opinion

CCB petition is a warning for China’s developers

China’s Project Whitelist, launched at the start of the year, exists to ensure bank funding for property development. But it is there to protect projects, not the developers behind them.

Larissa Ku, April 15, 2024

Opinion

Green shoots in Turkey but inflation worries persist

Rumours that FAB is in exploratory talks with a Turkish lender, together with hopes for a big-ticket IPO, point to optimism despite the dire outlook on inflation.

Lucy Frost, April 15, 2024

Foreign Exchange

Decoding China’s FX guessing game

Previous changes of policy direction have left analysts undecided on whether to attribute recent sharp corrections to the renminbi reference rate to accident or design – or even a combination of the two.

Paul Golden, April 12, 2024

CAPITAL MARKETS

Man’s Desmyter on what asset allocators want today

When clients talk to the world’s biggest listed hedge fund, market complexity, the use of technology and the need for customised solutions loom large in the conversation. Man Group’s president Steven Desmyter tells Euromoney how the firm’s evolving structure and approach reflect the priorities of the asset allocators it serves.

Mark Baker, April 12, 2024

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