Secure forex trading means having robust, round-the-clock risk systems

As legislators seek to safeguard against future financial crises, US politics again faces the battle between those in favour of tougher regulation and those with a vested interest in seeing otherwise

The new pan-European solvency regime presents significant opportunities for insurers and other financial institutions, say Deloitte’s Michel de La Belliere and Rick Lester

How brokers will be able to expand their clientele, strengthen their position and offer its customers more innovative technologies

Chilean investment bank Celfin Capital is growing fast in Latin America – and has designs to advance north

Multi-platform capability enables fast, reliable and above all secure access to trading accounts any time and anywhere

New standards in capital requirements are coming to the European Insurance industry – and business had best get used to them quickly, writes EIOPA Executive Director Carlos Montalvo

The political will to regulate a central part of the board’s work in financial institutions is an immediate consequence of lessons learned from supervisors – what you expect to be taking place is not, writes Jan Parner

Listening to Jose Carlos de Vasconcellos talk about Rio de Janeiro’s property market is like being transported back to the bubble days in the US or Europe. The 60-year-old, who came out of retirement to join Brazil’s swelling ranks of real estate brokers, is convinced that property in the beachside city is a one-way bet […]

The leader of the populist True Finns party, vying for a key role in the next Finnish government, has said he would demand to renegotiate a package of EU measures to tackle the euro zone debt crisis. “Considering the current preliminary information… we will not accept it,” Timo Soini told Reuters in a telephone interview. […]

Largely shut out by traditional international lenders, Argentina still had a place to turn last year for the billions of dollars it needed to renovate its decrepit railway system – Beijing. The $10bn package agreed with the China Development Bank was another clear sign of China’s surging influence in Latin America, transforming the region’s economies […]

Do what you like. Just count us out. That, in essence, is the message that Britain is sending its European partners as the 17 countries that share the euro move towards closer economic integration. In a departure from half a century of British diplomacy, PM Cameron has adopted a strategy of benign disengagement from the […]

With a leading Republican candidate yet to emerge, the biggest risk to President Obama’s quest for a second term next year is a jobless rate that has hovered between 9 and 10 percent for months. March 4’s jobless report is expected to show nonfarm payrolls soared in February by 185,000 jobs, but the overall unemployment […]

South Africa’s Nedbank beat expectations with a nine percent increase in annual profit, helped by a fall in bad debts, and said it expected further growth in the coming year. South Africa’s fourth-largest bank, like its rivals, was lacerated by bad debts in 2009, after a recession slashed more than a million jobs and left […]

2010 saw the Caribbean region trying to recover from the economic trauma of 2008-9, and despite encouraging signs, the recovery has been a slow one, writes Kris Sookdeo