Inside the Global «Club» That Helps Executives Escape Their Crimes

Two financiers convicted of embezzling more than $300 million from an Indonesian bank used little-known arbitration to fend off Interpol, shield their assets, and effectively nullify their punishment. An 18-month investigation into the murky world of ISDS, or investor-state dispute settlement. – August 28 / Buzzfeed

Inside Deutsche Bank's Russian «Mirror Trades»

A look inside the German bank's controversial «mirror trades» for Russian clients, tracking the bank's former head of Russian equities to Moscow and Bali. – August 22 / New Yorker 

The War on Cash

Digital payment systems have declared the death of cash. Doing away with cold, hard bank notes in favor of attempting to digitize all transactions like in Sweden is linked to the broader issue of privacy – and of informal, unaccounted-for behaviour.  – August 19 / The Long and Short

Bond-Trading is Being Turned on its Head

Hedge funds and asset managers are upending the global bond market as increasingly influential players. A look at the buy-side's rise to power. – Bloomberg / August 16

Tidjane Thiam: «I Will Never Declare Victory»

The Credit Suisse boss talks about his vulnerabilities, what being a black CEO means, and a slightly cryptic welcome to Switzerland from tennis champion Roger Federer in a 5,000-word spread including a series of stark black-and-white photographs . – August 9 / «Bloomberg Markets»