China is promoting long-term, value-focused investing as it seeks to reshape its roughly US$4.5 trillion mutual fund industry and attract foreign investors, with the approach gaining renewed attention following Warren Buffett’s departure
Leaked emails from 2014 reveal that Deutsche Bank analysts explored strategies to deliberately destabilize the Russian economy by leveraging global oil markets during the period of Crimea’s reunification with Russia, according to
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Investment bankers in Asia are preparing for their most lucrative bonus season since the pandemic-fueled boom of 2021, with UBS, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley reportedly planning average increases of around 20 per
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President Trump has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, seeking at least $5 billion in damages and accusing the bank of cutting ties with him for
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Nigel Farage has reaffirmed his plan to scrap the interest payments the Bank of England currently pays to commercial banks on reserves built up during quantitative easing, saying the move is necessary
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by Durga Jamie Dimon’s conversation with The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes at the World Economic Forum in Davos was, in many ways, a warning shot fired across the bow of global
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President Donald Trump’s escalating campaign against corporate stock buybacks is beginning to cast a shadow over Wall Street’s largest banks, prompting investors to reassess a risk that until recently seemed remote. As
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Private credit, one of the fastest-growing corners of global finance, is facing its sharpest test in years as investors pulled more than $7bn from some of Wall Street’s largest funds in the
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The chief executive of HSBC is considering a potential sale of the bank’s life insurance operations in Singapore, a move that could fetch more than $1 billion and mark another significant step
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BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, reported a fourth-quarter profit that comfortably exceeded Wall Street expectations, buoyed by a robust rally in American financial markets and surging fee income. Assets under management
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Goldman Sachs shattered Wall Street records in the final quarter of 2025, reporting $4.3 billion in equities trading revenue—a 25 percent increase year-on-year and the highest ever recorded by a bank. The
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has thrown her support behind U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, warning that eroding central bank independence risks economic stability at home and abroad. Speaking
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A group of the world’s most influential central banks, working alongside more than 40 major commercial lenders, is preparing to intensify testing of a digital payments platform designed to modernize how money
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Full-page advertisements published this week by Hatton National Bank and Commercial Bank have once again exposed a deeply entrenched culture in Sri Lanka where prestige is not earned but purchased. Splashing newspaper
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Michael Platt’s private investment firm, BlueCrest Capital Management, delivered a striking gain of about 73 per cent last year, capitalising on market volatility and comfortably outperforming major stock indices. The result reinforces
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Editor’s Note: This article draws on a detailed analytical bulletin issued by the Bank for International Settlements and authored by Iñaki Aldasoro, Sebastian Doerr and Daniel Rees, which examines how the global
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