Innovation is at the centre of First Citizens Bank, says CEO Larry Howai

Occitan Capital Partners, a London-based startup hedge fund firm founded by a pair of former Goldman Sachs traders, has hired a Nomura banker to take on its chief executive role as the launch of its new fund draws closer, write Matt Turner and Harriet Agnew

ICICI Bank seek to capitalise on a growing market

The fortunes of Switzerland’s private banks are picking up, helped by a ground-breaking deal on taxes with Germany, writes Tara Loader Wilkinson

World Finance interviews Rafael Gascó, Director of Wealth Management at Banca March, on working across generations

Honed by experience in a volatile country, Analytica, Ecuador’s leading investment bank, continues to grow

World Finance interviews Alan Gandelman, CEO of ICAP Brazil, on further growth for Brazil

World Finance interviews Ryszard Petru, Chief Economist and Managing Director for Strategy and Corporate Governance at BRE Bank

World Finance interviews José Sotelo Lerma, Director at Banco Ve por Más, on new ideas in Mexico

World Finance interviews Bisi Onasanya, CEO of FirstBank Nigeria, on being young at heart

World Finance interviews Joaquim Silva Pinto, CEO of Banif Bank, on banking in Malta

The importance of transaction advisory in Islamic finance

World Finance speaks to KBL European Private Bankers’ CEO Jacques Peters about the banking group’s ambitions to expand

In April 2010, the African Development Bank Group was granted a 200 percent increase in capital, boosting it to $100bn, to take effect in 2011

The financial crisis has had a significant impact on project and acquisition finance lending in the past 24 months. Banif group’s revenues are indicative of the turnaround, writes Vasco Pinto Ferreira