The AI boom and a more supportive market backdrop powered emerging markets to one of their strongest quarters in years. South Korea and Taiwan stood out as the clear winners, benefiting from their central role in the global technology supply chain. …

With Eurxt, an initiative by Crédit Agricole, another euro stablecoin has entered the market. It illustrates the rapid rise of these tokens in Europe, where they are also finding applications for institutional investors. However, the growing maze of …

Fundbank Group, including Fundbank Luxembourg, has rebranded as 'IRACE Digital' and appointed a new global CEO and board of advisors. John Cronin has been appointed global CEO of Irace Digital Bank. He joins from Irish firm Zodia Custody, where he served …

Luxembourg is gaining ground in valuation work once concentrated in financial centers such as London, Paris or Frankfurt, according to a survey by the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (Alfi) and Kroll. The survey shows that 44 percent of …

State Street Investment Management is seeing growing demand for customised investment solutions among institutional investors in the Benelux. According to Sabine van Solingen, who leads the firm's institutional business in the region, the trend is being …

Cost pressure, regulatory constraints, and the need to boost efficiency are forcing the threshold of acceptable client wealth to evolve. A “barbell effect” – where “high-touch” services are reserved for the ultra wealthy, while “mass affluent“ clients …

Under the headline Climate (Change) Is No Longer Hot, the Financial Dagblad captured a sentiment that is spreading fast. Concern about global warming appears to be fading. Subsidies are under pressure, and green promises are moving down the political …

The European Union is reopening one of the hardest questions left from the global financial crisis: whether rules that made its banks safer have left them too small, fragmented and constrained to compete. Financial services commissioner Maria Luís …

By now, it no longer surprises me that gurus who repeatedly predict apocalypses, stock market crashes, and even the collapse of entire financial systems continue to be given a platform. Once again, we have another painful example of how many market …

Capital expenditure is set to become the defining theme for investors in 2026 as a new investment wave gathers pace worldwide. A review of midyear outlooks from Pimco, Amundi, Nuveen, PGIM and EFG International suggests artificial intelligence is acting …

Morningstar: Fidelity versus GQG Partners in global emerging markets equity

Proliferation of euro stablecoins creates confusion

Transfers: Fundbank becomes IRACE, Step Benelux

Luxembourg moves up the valuation chain

State Street: demand for customised investment solutions grows

A “barbell effect”: private banking client asset thresholds to diverge

Climate is no longer hot. The energy transition still is

Banking Union faces credibility test

Chart of the week: they got it wrong again!

A new capex supercycle is taking shape