Middle East and Africa banking series.

More focus on keeping a client happy than keeping the bank solvent; a risk management department that wasn’t tough enough and enabled bad practice; a willful reduction in margin; and two co-heads who ...

There is no single measure of implied volatility for FX markets, unlike those that exist for the S&P500 or for US interest rates. To fill the gap, banks build their own proprietary indices, such as ...

It’s not often that a banker invites you, mid interview, to review documents behind a big real estate financing deal his institution has worked on. And Andrew Bester, member of the management board ...

The sheer pace of AI developments has been breathtaking. AI is no longer just a smart assistant. The slew of AI innovations coming on stream has been relentless. For me, this has been nothing short of ...

There were many bold and audacious cross-border M&A propositions in 2005, some of which didn’t quite come off. Chinese oil company CNOOC’s $18.5 billion bid for Unocal of the US is a prime example.

Schneider FX, which provides forex services to small and medium sized corporates, as well as institutions, is to be renamed Monex Europe. The acquisition makes Monex Group one of the largest ...

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HSBC’s European corporate FX revenues grew 10% during the award period, and the bank ranked first or second for EMEA corporate FX flow across FXall, Bloomberg and 360T, including first for NDFs on ...

While many institutions benefitted from higher market volatility and increased hedging demand during the review period, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) went further. The bank distinguished itself through ...

Bank Muscat stood out from the competition in Oman for its combination of substantial domestic scale, continued growth and improvements to its digital FX infrastructure. In 2025, FX volumes increased ...

Wells Fargo wins this award on the strength of sustained gains in market share, expanding trading capabilities and rapid growth across its institutional FX franchise. Having entered the institutional ...