The European Central Bank is hoping for increased cross-border consolidation among banks to improve sector efficiency and boost valuations, ECB vice president Luis de Guindos told Portugal’s Expresso ...

A career in finance seemed like a distant prospect, growing up in a farm in South Africa, recalls Megan McDonald, the head of Daiwa Capital Markets Europe. Her education options were limited: her ...

According to the ECB's Euro Retail Payments Board report published this week, the push for increased digitisation of payment ...

Mergers and acquisitions among UK and European banks are set to increase in the coming year as they come under pressure from ...

Barbara Pianese is the Latin America editor at The Banker. She joined from Mergermarket, where she spent four years covering ...

A UK financial industry body has completed the experimentation phase testing a “regulated liability network” that would be able to make and settle payments in different forms of digital money, whether ...

The sell-offs have also sparked merger opportunities. Last week, UniCredit acquired a 4.5 per cent stake in Commerzbank from ...

Michael J. Hsu, acting US Comptroller of the Currency, speaks about the increasing relevance of non-financial risks ...

The Fed's “dot plot”, a quarterly updated chart that shows the individual projections of policy-makers for future interest rates, anticipates a policy rate of 4.25 to 4.5 per cent by the and of the ...

Russia changed its tune after international sanctions “squeezed” its economy, with exporters facing lengthy payment delays ...

The US stock exchange’s head of capital markets technology says regulation is driving a ‘generational shift’ in the area ...

“A robust permissions and access security framework is required for AI in banking. This is to ensure that sensitive payment ...