The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is under renewed scrutiny after one of two recent whistleblowers, whose identity was improperly disclosed by FCA chair Ashley Alder, accused the regulator of ...

While increasing financial inclusion has been seen as an imperative among banks in Asia, the unbanked market has historically provided high risk and low returns. However, technologies like blockchain ...

The US has also increased the diversification of its development strategy in recent years in a bid to counter Chinese ...

Revolut has said Meta’s action on tackling fraud has fallen “woefully short” of requirements and has called on Facebook’s owner to contribute to the reimbursement of victims defrauded on its sites.

As the English expression goes, the cat has just been thrown amongst the pigeons. The cat in this case is Andrea Orcel (Andrea to his friends and enemies), UniCredit’s calculating chief executive. The ...

France, Germany and Italy have asked the European Commission to consider changes to the EU’s Basel III framework implementation, due to come into effect in January, in order to protect “the ...

Meta’s move follows a pilot with NatWest and Metro Bank, which the company claims helped it close 20,000 accounts after banks shared links of malicious websites where fraudulent transactions took ...

Banks across the globe are facing significant challenges in the adoption of Swift’s ISO 20022 standard. The new transaction format requires an overhaul of many major banks’ legacy systems, functioning ...

European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has said that cross-border bank mergers in Europe are “desirable” to strengthen competition against US and Chinese rivals. Her remarks come as Italy’s ...

UK banks will be given new powers to delay payments suspected to be fraudulent, as the government tackles the millions lost to scammers every year. New laws proposed by the government will extend the ...

Attijariwafa remains in sixth place overall thanks to a 15.6 per cent growth in Tier 1 capital © The picture painted by The Banker’s Top 100 African Banks for 2024 is broadly similar to that from ...

Climate change is perceived as less of a major risk by UK banks, according to the Bank of England’s latest systemic risk survey, with geopolitical and cyber concerns higher on lenders’ worry lists.