Ever-growing penalties for misdemeanours ranging from Libor rigging to money laundering are starting to undermine bank capital ratio calculations.
The financial sector may be moving down the list of global risks, but this does not come as much of a relief to the banks themselves, writes Philip Alexander from the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washington DC.
Eurozone banks that have taken an aggressive stance to risk-weighting their assets may face most scrutiny from the European Central Bank’s comprehensive assessment.
Market participants are disputing attempts by the European Securities and Markets Authority to extend crucial MiFID II rules to address a new political priority.
Both the EU and New York are looking to bring digital currencies under a full regulatory regime, but their approaches are rather different.
The crisis at Portugal’s Banco Espirito Santo has raised fresh doubts about the recovery of banks in the peripheral eurozone.
National Bank of Greece has completed a share offering and a highly successful bond placement in the space of two key months for the bank's turnaround.
A growing number of countries have introduced resolution regimes for their systemically important banks, but making sure they work together globally is a larger challenge.
Key legislation on the structural reform of banks held over from the previous European Parliament and European Commission may now take a back seat.
Austrian banks are complaining that the eurozone stress test is biased against central and eastern Europe.
JPMorgan’s global head of prime brokerage says the bank is ready for tighter regulation of balance sheet usage.
Global banking profits jumped in this year's Top 1000 World Banks ranking to exceed their pre-crisis peak. So is the sector back in good health? Not universally so, reports Philip Alexander.
Market risk-weighted assets decline as a proportion of total assets in this year's ranking, as banks reduce their trading desk activities to meet higher capital requirements.
Chinese banks dominate the top 50 in terms of the best cost-to-income ratios, while Australia is the best-performing developed market.
While bad loan ratios are still high in the peripheral eurozone, some banks have exited the list of worst losses. But there are some new casualties in emerging markets
The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks ranking for 2014 shows that, at 5.86%, the global aggregate capital-to-assets ratio is at a historic high.
John Moore, the head of Morgan Stanley’s Americas equity capital markets business, explains why identifying innovators is a key part of the job
Capital raisings in the wake of a domestic stress test have enabled Greece’s four systemic banks to pull in private investors and begin the return to normality.
The Basel Committee’s net stable funding ratio takes is taking aim at the market for securities financing and lending.
Chinese bank assets are now larger than those in the US. A comparison of the two countries over time may give clues to the sector’s sustainability in China.