The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development may have found a new and much-needed source of infrastructure funding in pension funds, but the problem is far from solved, as governments still need to set up the framework to help them invest. 

European bank balance sheets are set to shrink, but bankers and regulators alike should think carefully about how to divest assets.

Latin America's up-and-coming 'multilatinas' appear to be succeeding where many have previously failed: in achieving a form of unification across the region. However, if the financial sector is to emulate its business counterpart, the tricky task of reaching a broad regulatory consensus will be essential.

Are banks' depressed earnings the result of a temporary crisis or are they a new characteristic of an increasingly regulated industry?

Raising bank capital ratios is the wrong solution at the wrong time.

When looking for models to emulate, banks are better off picking Apple rather than Google – Apple, after all, has branches. 

As developed economies throughout the world continue to struggle with spiraling debt problems, it is time the rethink the model of money creation.