Western Europe

The new platform for borrowers to display indicated funding terms at which they will strike private placement deals is expanding fast.

Deal-management app promises to transform the new issue process, bringing much-needed efficiency to absorbing investor feedback and roadshow management.

Deutsche Bank is showing it can cut leverage exposure in its corporate and investment bank without slashing revenues. It has a long way to go in its pursuit of acceptable returns, but the new management team is demonstrating an early determination to deliver.

While analysts focus on net interest margins and the turning credit cycle, there is an extraordinary risk hiding in plain sight.

The British challenger needs to be more realistic about its future, with Brexit and other risks ahead.

A strong quarter for UBS contained a few of the usual curiosities in the investment bank.

Those behind blockchain-based trade finance platform we.trade, which completed its first round of transactions this month, have acknowledged that banks will have to support multiple platforms to offer a rounded digital trade service.

Unbundling probe will confirm Mifid II distortions.

Rather than super-CEOs and messianic technology, European banks might find salvation simply in small-business lending by empowered staff. As some of the best-performing banks recognize, keeping to the basics offers good long-term returns.

Euromoney's recent coverage of the eurozone crisis focuses on the macroeconomic, political and banking sector fallout.

It is 10 years since Rajeev Misra left his position as head of credit and commodities at Deutsche Bank in a move that came a couple of months ahead of the failure of Lehman Brothers and a global financial crisis.

Loan margin pressures at the Dutch bank may be structural.

Recent glitches at TSB and Visa hint at the strain.

The French bank hopes with one small acquisition to burnish its green credentials, meet government requirements on renewable energy and show its potential to adapt disruptive financial technology

Private equity house takes stake in UK payments processor

Non-banks eye new funds to triple originations; interest margins at risk across Europe.

UK regulator to examine regulatory impact as current research pricing viewed as unsustainable by investors.

As treasurers and banks grapple with the arrival of real-time payments and open banking, tech companies are looking at the next phase of payment developments.

With less than 10 months to go until the UK formally leaves the European Union, most FX venues remain content to wait for the outcome of negotiations around key issues such as financial passporting before confirming their future strategy.

Kevin Rodgers gives his personal views on the trial and conviction of FX banker Mark Johnson and its ramifications for global markets. Anyone working in banking should consider what it means for them.

Higher merchant fees are creating issues for corporate treasurers, who are concerned with the lack of alternatives in the market.

Product diversification high on agenda; bank fund relationships could change.

As they rapidly lose market share, investment banks must evolve their capital markets businesses.

AT1 contingent capital bonds are entering their second generation; issuers have begun refinancing the $200 billion asset class, but just two years ago the market looked close to collapse. What took it to near disaster? And how did it escape?

Despite the latest attempts to stymie them, Eurosceptic populists remain the most powerful political force in Italy – largely thanks to anger at a banking crisis, often fanned by the ECB. Now their approach to power is killing the last chance of fixing the banking union, and possibly the euro.

With six months to go before money market reforms are imposed on all funds in Europe, treasurers hoping to earn a return on their cash are scoping out the best options available.

A soybean trade between two arms of Cargill using letters of credit from HSBC and ING shows the R3 Corda platform is finally set to scale up.

The multiple access points for payments platforms in the UK have been brought together under one new operator

What to do when questions are being asked about the effectiveness of low-trigger CoCos? Issue higher trigger ones, of course.

Expectations of further M&A following CYBG’s approach to Virgin Money might be wildly optimistic.