In September Sanoma Corporation, the Finnish learning and media company, became the first corporate to issue and list a ...

Close Brothers has paused all motor finance lending, while Lloyds Banking Group, which owns the UK’s largest car finance ...

UK challenger Metro Bank has been fined £16.7mn by the Financial Conduct Authority for failing to address flaws in its automated anti-money laundering system installed in 2016. The FCA said that ...

Project mBridge is a blockchain-based payments ledger, which is designed to support real-time, cross-border payments and ...

China’s banks have been told to reduce the interbank deposit rate, as part of the latest round of stimulus measures ...

BBVA’s €11bn hostile takeover bid for rival Sabadell has hit a setback, as Spain’s antitrust regulator, the CNMC, announced a more stringent phase 2 competition review on Tuesday. The regulator’s ...

A Trump-Vance administration, under a new secretary, would likely return to an activities-based analysis, looking for market ...

US banks and private equity firms are gearing up for potential deregulation as Donald Trump returns for a second term as US ...

What is fortunate for Lazard’s 2030 strategy is that analysts expect its operating performance to improve in 2024 and 2025 after a challenging 2023 for the advisory division.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of COP29 in Baku. © Sean Gallup/Getty Images In the opening plenary of COP29 on ...

Italy’s UniCredit has closed its acquisition of a 90.1 per cent stake in Alpha Bank Romania from Greece’s Alpha International ...

Taken as a whole, the 240 banks represented in The Banker’s Top Islamic Financial Institutions for 2024 registered a 9 per cent increase in sharia-compliant assets for 2023, compared with 5.4 per cent ...