It is less than two and a half years until Libor, the benchmark on which trillions of dollars-worth of financial instruments are based, will disappear.
European banks are trying to put a devastating series of money-laundering scandals behind them, but the crisis is far from over.
Regulators, politicians, competition authorities and central bankers have all been outlining objections to the Libra project from the first day Facebook announced plans to let its 2.4 billion users exchange payments in a new virtual currency.
Countries fall off the global financial grid for a host of reasons: political obtuseness, lack of sovereign recognition, the departure of correspondent banking relationships, even Ebola.
Applications to operate banks in Saudi Arabia show that consolidation has not shut the door to new entrants.
The delay in the introduction of strong customer authentication under the second EU Payments Services Directive has not been universally welcomed, but it represents a valuable opportunity to make consumers more security-aware.
Saudi Arabia is pressing on with capital markets reform and its planned IPO of Aramco in spite of drone attacks on its oil facilities that briefly spooked markets.
With a balance sheet of €486 billion, KfW is Germany’s third-largest bank and a key player in German finance.
It is less than two and a half years until Libor, the benchmark on which trillions of dollars-worth of financial instruments are based, will disappear.
European banks are trying to put a devastating series of money-laundering scandals behind them, but the crisis is far from over.
For many international investors, Liberia isn’t relevant.
It’s not long ago that Kurdistan was on the brink of accessing the international markets.
In the landlocked nation, credit is in short supply and few have bank accounts.
A properly functioning financial system has long eluded the country.
It is 11 years since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, and even now, only about half of the UN recognizes it as a free-standing sovereign state.
The country’s poverty is in marked contrast to the relative affluence of its neighbours.
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After the challenges of Asian and global financial crises and the 1MDB scandal, Zeti Akhtar Aziz is back in the top echelons of Malaysian influence again.
Europe’s banking sector’s investment in fintech and ESG merits more confidence than their exposure to negative European Central Bank rates might suggest.
A push into the regional mid-markets, as well as the international subsidiaries of those clients, is a useful driver of market share at a time of uncertainty.
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The country’s risk scores have lagged its central European neighbours since the financial crisis.
A strong fiscal position means the Netherlands can follow the Keynesian rulebook without upsetting the markets, despite concern the economy is heading the same way as Germany’s.
