Transaction banking is being quietly re‑engineered. Banks are sharpening corridor strategies, layering new payment rails onto existing networks and investing in real‑time visibility without abandoning ...

Ten years ago, when Stefan Ermisch moved to Hamburg to become chief financial officer of HSH Nordbank, the banking champion of Germany’s largest port was in deep crisis. It looked like it could only ...

Euromoney is in a helicopter high above the frozen planes of Northern Alberta, Canada. The distances here are vast and the flight takes an hour from the town of High Level – itself not much more than ...

Exactly one year ago, San Francisco-based First Republic Bank was sold by regulators amid a US regional banking crisis. Citizens Financial Group, which had seen the sale as a chance to turbocharge its ...

When she greets Euromoney in the bank’s headquarters this summer, Tan Su Shan comes straight from meeting an important client. The client is heavily affected by the fallout from Donald Trump’s trade ...

While an increasing number of central banks are shifting their focus from retail to wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), China’s e-CNY, a retail CBDC, has shown notable progress, despite ...

The global multi-family office (MFO) is growing up fast. It seems that every month, this once-niche corner of wealth management gets a foot taller. The latest firm to catch the eye is London-based ...

It is in difficult times that the best franchises prove their mettle. JPMorgan’s formidable corporate and investment bank – now bolstered through its integration of commercial banking – was the one to ...

Latin America faces a structural issue when it comes to private equity: the region remains a buyer’s market for these funds, while, if anything, the dynamics are increasingly skewed towards those ...

We all know the stereotype: big banks are complex and backward-looking. When it comes to setting up businesses based on digital technology and new consumer habits, they’re bureaucratic and risk averse ...

It is a year since Indian prime minister Narendra Modi turned his country’s transactional finances upside down with his demonetization programme. The dust has now settled. People will argue for years ...

Citi’s trajectory over the past 15 years has epitomised the much wider changes in the global banking industry. Until the sub-prime crisis, the group had consumer franchises spread across 50 countries ...