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September 2016

Main

Cover story – Italy

Inside Italy's circle of NPL hell

Western Europe

Inside Italy’s bad-debt heartlands

Italy

Italy: Too big to bail

Italy: ECB’s first merger brings more worry

Nationalism

Nationalism: Global risks rise as banks beat a retreat

Nationalism: Could digital technology offer hope for a new era of financial interconnectivity?

Nationalism 2

How Argentina beat the bondholder stand-off

Nationalism 3

Banks at the heart of Cuba's existential battle for reform

Nationalism 4

Bhattacharya stakes her reputation on transforming State Bank of India

State Bank of India: communicating to the masses and turning to tech

Nationalism 5

CIMB's Nazir battles Malaysia’s demons

Inclusion

How financial inclusion will change the face of banking

Inclusion 2

Fintech & fraud: Microfinance faces balancing act in Africa

Inclusion 3

Financial inclusion: Biometric banking and the $600 billion opportunity

Understanding India’s push into biometrics

Emerging Europe

Emerging Europe: Latvia looks beyond its big bank clean-up

Emerging Europe: Citi stands firm in CEE as rivals pull back

Emerging Europe: EBRD keeps its appetite for risk

Latin America

Latin America: Brazilian brokers wave the offside flag

Latin America: Valenzuela rides into a new world of challenges

Banks at the heart of Cuba's existential battle for reform

Asia Pacific

Bhattacharya stakes her reputation on transforming State Bank of India

State Bank of India: communicating to the masses and turning to tech

Best Managed Companies 2016: ESG to the fore in Asia corporate governance

Real estate

Real Estate Survey 2016: Brexit – mortal blow for bricks and mortar?

Real Estate Survey 2016: JPMorgan climbs to top of global real estate

Real Estate Awards 2016: Results index

Middle East

Middle East: Constantly tested, Lebanese banks remain resilient

Middle East: Gulf moves from buyouts to mergers

Africa

Africa: Mozambique runs on empty

Banking news

Scandinavia: Handelsbanken coup reveals trouble in paradise

North America: Small banks feel the squeeze in the US

Brexit offers glimmer of hope for challenger banks

Markets news

Bank capital: Italy worries mask wider malaise in Europe

Capital relief trades: Yield hunters chase synthetics as Basel IV looms

Intelligent machines will dominate FX trading – but when?

CSR bonds: Are sustainability bonds better than green?

JPMorgan repo retreat shows cost of rule changes

Asia news

Taiwan’s banks struggle on multiple fronts

Asia: Last man standing – BEA fights Elliott action

Asia: Citi grabs a ride in taxi tie-up

China rings changes in homegrown bond markets

Asia: Mongolia fights fiscal fall-out

Latin America news

Latin America fintech: Brazil’s digital puzzle

Argentina’s banks seek path to normalization

EEMEA news

Africa: Rabobank cuts reg risk in new venture

Saudi Arabia: IPOs open to foreigners in new shake-up

CEE sovereigns: Slovenia regains top-tier borrower status

Comment

The looming crisis in correspondent banking

Regulation: French rail against Basel IV

Asia: GIC’s Vietcombank stake shows long-awaited EM shift

US banking regulation: Poor relations

Money laundering: The UK’s dirty CEE secret

Bulge bracket gets slimmer in Asian investment banking revenues

Asia: SGX’s Baltic Exchange bid seeks a new path to growth

Columns

Macaskill on markets: Trading a Trump upset

Sideways: Goldman Sachs – investing in people

Against the tide: Monetary policy measures – Helicopter money? Not likely

Off message: Jousting, IMF-style

Front End

Handbags between Singapore and Malaysia

Shades of Kafka in Castro’s new Cuba

When shadow banking goes rogue

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