The commodities chief is leaving the company after the announcement last month that JPMorgan’s commodities arm would be sold to Mercuria

OCBC targets China growth with bid to takeover one of Hong Kong’s last family-owned banks

The planned rise of the consumption tax in Japan from five percent to eight percent has taken place as the country tries to tackle its public debt problem

World Finance interviews Mark Taylor, former foreign exchange trader and Dean of Warwick Business School, on the forex rigging scandal

Co-head of investment banking and man touted as future CEO departs for private equity firm Carlyle

World Finance interviews Musa Shihadeh, CEO of Jordan Islamic Bank, on social responsibility and sharia compliance

Swiss trading house Mercuria Energy Group is set to seal the deal in the summer, creating a commodities titan

The new Fed chair suggested in her first news conference that the central bank could raise record low interest rates as soon as April 2015

As well as being one of the most talked-about cities in the world, Dubai is fast emerging as the global leader in Islamic finance. Dubai Islamic Bank is well positioned to play a major role in consolidating that position

Janet Yellen became the first woman to head the US Federal Reserve in its entire 100-year history in February. Will she be remembered as one of the greats who led the world’s most important central bank?

Many banks have been found guilty of interbank rate rigging, but these five in particular had to pay a hefty price for their wrongdoings

Innovative products and an ethical banking approach have helped Türkiye Finans become Turkey’s leading participation bank, but what does 2014 hold for the Turkish banking sector as a whole?

Vietnam’s State Bank has slashed refinancing rates in order to stimulate capital flows into the country’s floundering economy

The country becomes the first developed nation to raise interest rates in recent times, following strong dairy exports and increased construction

With Fitch upgrading KIB’s credit rating from A- to A+, and it receiving the Best Islamic Bank, Kuwait, 2014 award from World Finance, the organisation is set for a record year