UniCredit in September acquired a 9 per cent stake in Commerzbank, leading to speculation about a potential tie-up. The bank ...

In The Banker exchange’s final episode for 2024, Aliya Shibli sits down with Barbara Pianese, Farah Khalique and Antonia Mannweiler to discuss the results of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s ...

Those countries are facing a triple crisis. The economic and social impacts of climate change are becoming more frequent and more severe. The loss of nature and biodiversity are approaching dangerous ...

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

Bettina Orlopp, Commerzbank CEO, speaks at the IIF during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington © Ting ...

CIBC’s interest in Luxembourg’s public sector business grew from a desire to extend its long-standing sovereign, supranational and agency expertise to a broader set of clients in Europe and Asia. The ...

Italy’s UniCredit has closed its acquisition of a 90.1 per cent stake in Alpha Bank Romania from Greece’s Alpha International Holdings. The transaction, valued at approximately €255mn ($277.76mn), ...

Overall stricter IRRBB requirements in the EU are putting European banks in a better position to withstand interest rate ...

Taken as a whole, the 240 banks represented in The Banker’s Top Islamic Financial Institutions for 2024 registered a 9 per ...

Despite digital advances and geopolitical fragmentation, there appears to be little appetite for a rival to Swift outside ...

Santander included the results of its UK unit in the group earnings. Net profit in the UK fell 18.6 per cent year on year in ...

Earlier this year, the FCA asked more than 1,000 regulated financial services firms, including 181 banks, to report all ...