Close Brothers has paused all motor finance lending, while Lloyds Banking Group, which owns the UK’s largest car finance ...

The Trump-Vance administration will usher in a significant shift in federal financial regulatory policy. I should know: I ...

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

Italy’s UniCredit has closed its acquisition of a 90.1 per cent stake in Alpha Bank Romania from Greece’s Alpha International ...

US banks and private equity firms are gearing up for potential deregulation as Donald Trump returns for a second term as US president with a Republican-controlled Senate. As reported by the Financial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Promoting a CRO to chief executive also conveys to watchdogs that a troubled company wants to get back on track. Geary, the author of How to be a Chief Operating Officer, says it “sends a message to ...

Spanish bank Sabadell concluded its €365mn lawsuit against US private equity group Cerberus on Monday in London’s High Court. As reported by the Financial Times, the case stems from Cerberus’s alleged ...

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 ...

Ahead of the formal opening of its banking sector to foreign investors, Ethiopia awarded a mobile money licence last May to Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom, enabling it to launch its influential ...

European banks are undermining the energy transition, says French non-profit Reclaim Finance, which published new research revealing that 20 of the region’s largest lenders had provided more than ...