Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Germany's concession that could unblock progress towards a eurozone banking union, investor moves against Deutsche Bank chairman Paul Achkleitner, and what's behind the recent spate of personnel changes in investment banking. With special guest Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, chairman of Société Générale.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Martin Arnold, Frankfurt bureau chief, Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt correspondent, Jonathan Guthrie, Lex editor, David Crow, banking editor, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Google's move towards banking that could see it team up with Citigroup, why Australia's big four are facing difficult times and what's in the report on TSB's software failure last year. With special guest Masha Cilliers, Specialist Payments Partner at Be.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Tim Bradshaw, global tech correspondent, Robert Armstrong, chief editorial writer, Jamie Smyth, Australia correspondent and Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. Producers: Persis Love and Aimee Keane.

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the health of German banks in the wake of bearish comments from Moody's and the Bundesbank, Unicredit's potential share buyback and why European banks appear to be retrenching in the US. With special guest Magdalena Stoklosa head of European banks research at Morgan Stanley.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the EBA report on mounting risk in the European banking system, Goldman Sachs’ first ever investment day and why the pensions of UK banking CEOs are being cut. With special guest Mario Quagliariello, director of economic analysis at the European Banking Authority.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Persis Love

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss whether regulators are easing up on bank capital rules, tough times for UK peer-to-peer lenders, and why Goldman Sachs is planning to bring wealth management to the masses. With special guest Harald Benink, professor of banking and finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the latest from the World Economic Forum in Davos, the outlook for Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase's decision to buy a second office in Paris. With special guest Brian Moynihan, chief executive of Bank of America. 

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Laura Noonan, US banking editor, and Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Matthew Vincent and colleagues discuss Goldman Sachs and Amazon - another big tech tie-up for the Wall Street name, Deutsche Bank's profit targets, and what a case of stealing from a workplace canteen tells us about the current climate for ethics and compliance in banking. With special guest Russell Quelch of Redburn, the equity research house.

Contributors: Matthew Vincent, regulation correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Robert Smith, capital markets correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Matthew Vincent and colleagues discuss the hunt for new chief executives among Europe's top banks and JPMorgan's plans to launch a digital bank in the UK. With special guest Sir Mike Rake, former CBI president, and former deputy chairman of Barclays.

Contributors: Matthew Vincent, regulation correspondent, David Crow, banking editor, Stephen Morris, European banking editor, and Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Businesses like buying contemporary art to show off their forward-thinking and investment savvy. Fair enough – but it still sits oddly with artists’ desire to provoke and subvert  

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As Sotheby’s prepares for a selling exhibition of the street artist’s work the FT’s arts writer reflects on shock culture – and the art market’s appetite for it.  

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Facebook plans to shake up the finance world with a new digital currency called Libra - we hear about its pros and cons. Next up, we discover what Moll Flanders, the literary anti-heroine, can tell us about modern day bank fraud. And finally we find out how smaller shareholders can stand up for their rights. 

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As research shows modern couples are more likely to keep their finances separate, presenter Claer Barrett and guests debate how women in particular are managing their money. Plus, ahead of the new university term we reveal finance tips for students and their parents, and ask what could emerge as the next consumer misselling scandal after PPI.

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Reduction is second in under a month as country braces for an extended coronavirus lockdown

Century-old agriculture lender is latest state group in need of government support

Pandemic puts more pressure on Masayoshi Son’s bet on beleaguered WeWork

Office group founder files lawsuit over largest investor’s decision to pull out of $3bn tender offer

David Enrich’s salutary tale of Deutsche Bank’s overreaching ambitions

Guido Sandleris says it is ‘too soon’ to declare that stability has returned to peso

Fitch says scale of support points to the systemic importance of $55tn asset management market

Falling interest rates, weak trading volumes and automation have led to an exceptionally brutal summer for global investment banks, which have shed tens of thousands of jobs, particularly on trading desks. Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, discusses the bleak outlook for bankers with Robert Armstrong, US financial editor.

Contributors: Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, and Robert Armstrong, US financial editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Former deputy set to take over as country faces sharpest economic contraction in decades

Start every week on the front foot with a preview of what’s on the global agenda

First-quarter volatility deals $39bn blow to SNB as it steps up fight for Swiss franc

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

Analysts fear unintended consequences of central bank’s vast foreign-currency holdings

Regulators must ensure that lenders’ defences are sufficiently robust

A bailout is the Mediterranean country’s only option to refloat its sinking economy

Christian Noyer believes projects available to consumers are a way off yet

Acquisition allows group to build bigger share of the $6.6tn-a-day market

Industry associations demand detail to manage risk of trading from home

Hedge fund calls for court investigation into 2018 transfer of MyTheresa

Business tycoon’s GFG Alliance makes first foray into fast-growing market after long court battle

In future it may have to be budget stimulus that rides to the rescue

First state company to enter business rescue since end of apartheid

Telecoms group seeks to turn mobile payments unit into provider of wider services

Suspected suicide comes as Angolan billionaire indicted for money laundering

Japanese tech group’s splurge on its own shares is not enough to impress investors

The Japanese tech investment group is looking increasingly challenged

Lobby groups led by UK Finance warn there is likelihood of ‘severe’ impact to borrowers

Coronavirus lockdown hits lenders’ ability to offer mortgages and evaluate properties

Regulatory action sought to prevent intervention from having unintended consequences

As young renters feel the pain, parents are having to bridge the financial gaps

Former chancellor urges lenders to keep credit flowing and not just weather the storm

PwC’s finest scientific minds attempt to prove banks can exist in two states at once

Wuhan and the future of banks; digital insurance with Artificial; Robinhood’s $8.3bn valuation

Since their peak almost a month ago, European banks indices have plunged 40 per cent

Alternative providers fear it will harm competition in market for loans to small business

Horseman Capital’s Russell Clark has sold his holdings in government bonds

Citigroup was biggest lender but Deutsche, Barclays and SocGen are also on the hook

Future of finance: Brazil’s main Latin rival for the attention of emerging market fund managers is Mexico