UniCredit chief executive Andrea Orcel said on Tuesday the bank is prepared to let its €14bn takeover offer for its smaller domestic rival Banco BPM lapse, as regulatory hurdles and government-imposed ...

Anita Hawser joined Barclays’ AGM in London and found a mix of disillusioned retail shareholders nostalgic of the old days (and higher share price), pro-Palestine protesters disrupting the gathering, ...

Financial fraud results in annual losses of more than £1bn for UK consumers and the financial sector, despite banks’ growing efforts in preventing the misuse of payment systems.

“Qatari banks are well capitalised and profitable, and we expect this to persist in the next 12 to 24 months,” says Juili ...

See the full rankings as well as the region’s top 10 banks scored by performance ...

The chief executive of Banco BPI, the Portuguese arm of Spain’s CaixaBank, has pushed back against concerns over Spanish influence in Portugal’s banking sector, saying foreign investment has been ...

Research from the UK regulator published on Friday shows that approximately 3.5mn adults relied on high-cost credit in the 12 ...

South Korean and Japanese lenders with stakes in Vietnamese banks could be the biggest winners from the liberalisation of the ...

UniCredit said on Friday it plans to file a claim with Italy’s administrative court to assess the legality of conditions ...

Not all joint ventures in private credit between banks and alternative asset managers will survive, say analysts and bankers. The sheer number of partnerships competing for business, combined with a ...

Overall, only seven of the 30 banks in the ranking recorded a Tier 1 capital decline. Profitability, however, was patchier across the region. Thirteen banks in the overall ranking recorded a decline ...

A draft version of the government’s banking reform bill, due to be published on June 6, is expected to require UBS to fully ...