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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...