October 2014

Main

Top stories

Downfall of a dynasty: The last days of Ricardo Salgado and Banco Espírito Santo

Espírito Santos and Queiroz Pereiras: Duel of two dynasties

Transaction services

How to engineer a cash management monster

Asia Pacific

Rajan’s surgical strikes

AIIB struggles for lack of investment

Philippines fumbles its infrastructure

Latin America

Videgaray pulls Mexico into shape

Argentina: Can Kirchner hold out?

Scandinavia

Regulation: Sweden’s unfinished finish

Banking

Danske Bank: Good luck, or good business?

Debt markets

Nordics show local authorities how to borrow

Local-government agencies: AFL – The new enfant on the bloc

Cash management

Electronic billing tops agenda for cash clients

Euromoney Cash Management Survey 2014: HSBC voted top international cash manager for third successive year

Cash management survey 2014: results index

Banking news

Aldermore: Challenger banks are growth stocks

Three challenges facing Barclays’ new head of wealth

Markets news

AT1 market braced for year-end surge as AQR results loom

High yield: That’s dividend recaps 4U

Regulators seek to restore FX’s broken trust covenant

Asia news

Doubts raised on Singapore-Taiwan exchange link

Asian bankers bathe in Alibaba afterglow

Latin America news

Neighbours won’t infect Uruguay

Mexico: Bimbo warms up large equity follow-on

Brazil faces tough future, say economists

EEMEA news

Goldman mounts LIA defence

Russia: Banks will shrug off sanctions

South Africa sukuk draws in Middle East and Asia

Kenyan corporates to raid Eurobond market

Comment

HSBC shrugs off $550 million FHFA settlement

Market braces for FSB’s ‘scary’ TLAC number

Arab Bank: The tyranny of KYC

The real emerging Europe

Electronic bank billing: Bills, bills, bills

Intra-African trade: Protect against protectionism

China trade finance: What lies beneath

Brazil elections: Don’t bank on Marina

Columns

Abigail with attitude: Pimco – the Tom and Jerry show

Abigail with attitude: Blackstone’s disengagement from Russia

Abigail with attitude: Botín’s legacy

Macaskill on markets: Tesco – we’re not as bad as Barclays

Macaskill on markets: Sideways – Penalty augury

Against the tide: Draghi’s dilemma

Inside investment: Fed not alone in its dottiness

Front End

IPOs: Alibaba and the performing Virgin

BES and Eurofin: Leaning on Lamps and Post

BES: Ronaldo’s own goal

South Korea: Macquarie man’s highway dreams

Quotes of the month

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