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Deutsche/Barclays: two contrasting IB stories

The two European banks are both trying to de-emphasise their investment banks and want to build up areas where they see weakness. Barclays is later to this party than Deutsche, but both will have found encouragement in the first three months of 2024.

Mark Baker, April 25, 2024

Treasury

Is trade finance ready for DNI integration?

Digital negotiable instruments offer the prospect of improved working capital and better liquidity, but they face implementation challenges.

Paul Golden, April 25, 2024

CAPITAL MARKETS

Direct lenders face double-dip threat

Direct lenders to risky borrowers take comfort from their seniority in the creditor hierarchy. But stressed borrowers could jeopardise this as they struggle to attract new funding.

Peter Lee, April 24, 2024

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

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A new payments paradigm

As the financial and digital landscape rapidly evolves, corporate treasurers are at the forefront of navigating emerging payment trends. To succeed, preparation is key.

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

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