“UK financial services M&A activity reached its highest annual volume in more than a decade in 2024, as material signs of economic recovery lifted market confidence, valuations rose and inbound deals ...

Italy’s small and medium-sized enterprises banking market could be shaken up by Banca Ifis’s surprise €298mn bid for Illimity.

The Bank of England’s deputy governor Sam Woods has urged caution against lowering financial regulation standards, warning of the risks of a “race to the bottom” as the US signals potential regulatory ...

Economic data, geopolitics and CBDC developments point to a future fragmented system no longer dominated by the US dollar ...

Is the UN-convened initiative dead in the water, or is the departure by US lenders an opportunity to strengthen the climate ...

Italian lender Banca Ifis has launched a €298mn tender offer to acquire its domestic rival Illimity Bank. The offer, launched ...

UK lender Close Brothers announced on Tuesday that chief executive Adrian Sainsbury has stepped down to focus on his health ...

CaixaBank CEO Gonzalo Gortázar on European banking consolidation, Spain’s booming economy and why London is still the place ...

An increasing number of banks have a diversity and inclusion lead at the C-suite level. Fewer banks, however, adopt the practice of having a chief of diversity to work alongside them for a fixed ...

Issuers can now choose to use the new “European green bond” label, launched on December 21, when marketing a euro-denominated ...

Among the new economic initiatives recently rolled out is a new securities exchange, the Ethiopian Securities Exchange, or ESX, planned for launch on January 10. For decades, Ethiopia’s financial ...

The regulator flagged up UDAP — “unfair or deceptive acts or practices” — risk as some banks take “prolonged timeframes to complete investigations or implement broad account access limitations, ...