The UK Financial Conduct Authority launched a consultation on June 29 proposing targeted changes to the scope and application ...

More than one in three central banks globally plan to increase their allocations to gold over the next three years, despite a fall in prices this year. According to research from investment firm ...

Accusations of tax evasion made by China’s auditor against three major lenders are a sign of tighter scrutiny of the industry ...

The UAE has fined a foreign bank $5.4mn for anti-money laundering failures, in one of the largest penalties imposed on a ...

Financial sector supervisors are meant to keep the system safe and stable. But the primacy of that function — paramount in ...

The European Central Bank is to withdraw around 40 regulatory guides for lenders as part of a drive to simplify supervision ...

Rapid population growth and long execution times make the initiative’s goal of connecting 300mn people to electricity by 2030 ...

The CEO of the Philippines’ largest bank has insisted that its growing use of AI will not lead to reductions in headcount, ...

Stablecoins may be dominating the debate over digital money, but senior figures at the Financial Conduct Authority are keen ...

Anita Hawser is the Europe editor at The Banker. For the past 20 years, Anita has worked as a freelance journalist for a ...

When Jes Staley tried to unmask a Barclays whistleblower”, it is easy to be angry at the individual. Staley’s actions deserve ...

BIS said stablecoins show some of tokenisation’s potential to support faster payments, but current models fall short ...