The concept that bankers know when they are going to make a loss – which forms part of the IFRS9 rules launched in in 2018 – is fundamentally flawed.

Blockchain and the Internet of Things have plenty of advocates in the financial world, but could it be the big banks that give them the scope to become all-encompassing?

The slowdown in China is hitting export-dependent emerging economies hard. It is those that planned for the bad times during the good, however, that will suffer the least.

A Chinese recession – or even continued sluggish economic growth – would have global repercussions unimaginable even a decade ago. Yet the lessons of slowdowns and depressions in other superpowers appear to have gone unheeded in the Far East.

Another collapse akin to that of Lehman Brothers would have a significantly lessened impact on the financial world, a Fitch report has found. However, Brian Caplen warns that there is no room for complacency.

The corporate bond market is increasingly coming under threat from stricter regulation on capital, liquidity and proprietary trading. Can new trading platforms such as TruMid and Electronifie come to the rescue?

The traditional banking model is failing a new breed of 'global SMEs', whose business model is reliant upon real-time retail payments. Enter the distributed ledger system...

The problems between Greece and the EU are a result of flawed thinking that no one will admit to. Even still, reaching some sort of deal is in the best interests of all concerned.

With so many governments struggling under the burden of debt, is it time to rethink the way that public wealth is managed? A new book suggests that it is, and proposes that better managed assets could generate annual returns of up to $3000bn.

The good bank emerging from the ashes of Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo is currently being sold, with China's Fosun and Anbang Insurance two of the leading bidders. But, asks Brian Caplen, will either of these companies winning the bid work to anyone's advantage?