December 2025 – Page 2 – Financial Updates

Corporate Finance 2025: How US Banks Lead on Revenue as Europe Scrambles to Catch Up

Large corporate and investment banks in Europ...

Performance gaps are widening as cost-efficie...

U.S. fee pools in M&A and ECM still far outpa...

Banks are leaning on AI, automation, restruct...

How Morgan Stanley Beat Goldman as HK’s ECM Market Roars Back

Asia Markets Banking

Hong Kong’s equity capital markets rebounded ...

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs dominated Ho...

Morgan Stanley ultimately overtook Goldman in...

The boom reflects Chinese issuers shifting fr...

Goldman Sachs Tops JPMorgan in UK M&A Fees for Q1 2025 Amid Weak IPO Activity

Europe M&A Banking

Goldman Sachs has overtaken JPMorgan as the t...

Goldman earned about $163 million in UK dealm...

While Goldman leads UK fees and global M&A by...

Goldman’s UK lead depends on continued robust...

Haiti’s Amputee Banker Races Towards 2026 Winter Paralympics amid Immigration Hurdles

Global Firms Banking

Ralf Etienne, a 36-year-old one-legged Bank o...

After losing his leg in Haiti’s 2010 earthqua...

U.S. immigration policy changes that halted g...

Bank of America’s flexible support, including...

LVMH Wins Partial Defamation Suit: What It Means for Analyst Integrity & Disclosures

Europe FYI Consumer

LVMH sued Morgan Stanley in 2002, alleging it...

In 2004 a Paris Commercial Court found Morgan...

On appeal in 2006, the court upheld defamatio...

The parties settled in 2007, ending litigatio...

When Sanctions Meet English Contracts: Enforcing Arbitration & Choice-of-Law Clauses

Global Risk Banking

Post-2022 Russian sanctions have triggered di...

In JP Morgan v VTB, the English Commercial Co...

Related cases involving VEB and RusChemAllian...

These rulings highlight the need for financia...

U.S. Dollar Holds Global Reserve Lead Amid Slow Shift toward Alternatives

Global Markets Financial Services

The U.S. dollar remains the dominant global r...

Gold’s rising share of reserve asset value re...

Dollar dominance is underpinned by deep marke...

Near-term shifts point to slow, incremental d...

EU Pumps €17.5B Into SMEs for Energy Efficiency & Decarbonization, Unlocks €65B+ Investment

Europe Policy Renewables

The EIB Group and European Commission will pr...

The initiative aims to mobilise over €65 bill...

A one-stop-shop, backed by InvestEU and LIFE ...

This programme is a core pillar of the EU’s C...

EU Banking Reform 2025: Simplified Rules, Stronger Banks & Shifted Timelines

Europe Policy Banking

The EU is rolling out a broad banking reform ...

Basel III is largely in force from January 1,...

Crisis management and deposit insurance refor...

Supervisory processes, stress tests, and repo...

Global Debt Risks: Rising Refinancing Costs & Foreign-Currency Exposures in 2025

Global Risk Banking

Since the GFC, global finance has shifted fro...

Emerging markets rely more on domestic-curren...

Cross-border and foreign currency credit, par...

High near-term refinancing needs, uncertain h...