Editor’s Letter

Increasingly, among commentators on the financial services industry, there is a perception of bankers and banks as hungry carnivores, pouncing on every opportunity to take profits and showing no remorse when faced with a weaker prey...

One year ago, as we looked ahead to 2009, the financial world was a bleak place. In the depths of the credit crunch, one of the most crucial elements of global business—trust—had all but evaporated...

As Global Finance was going to press, details were emerging of JPMorgan Chases proposed $58 billion takeover of Bank One, which would be the biggest bank merger in the US in more than five years...