Italy’s banking sector is undergoing an unprecedented push toward mergers and acquisitions, with the country’s largest financial institutions convinced they must expand to escape being acquired, a ...

Investors use credit ratings to make well-informed assessments of a bank’s condition. Banks with fewer problematic loans and more stable profits are rated more favorably by top credit-rating agencies.

Financial depth is one of the main indicators of an economy’s level of development, reflecting the financial system’s capacity to mobilise savings, transform available resources into financing and ...

European equities completed the first half of 2026 with a powerful second-quarter (Q2) advance. The MSCI Europe Index, covering 397 large and mid-sized companies across 15 developed European markets, ...

Trade facilitation has become one of the most effective policy tools available to countries in Asia and the Pacific. As geopolitical tensions, protectionism and slowing growth reshape the global ...

Picture a financial-crime operations function—not one analyst at one desk, but the entire operation that sits behind the compliance programme of a large financial institution. On one side, sanctions ...

Mr. Simon Hughes of International Banker interviews Mr. Vitor D’Agnoluzzo, Partner, EMEA Head of Technology, Bain & Company, for a discussion on how AI and digital transformation are reshaping the ...

Coming hot on the heels of accounting scandals involving Enron and Tyco, both of which sent financial markets into tailspins, the fraud committed by WorldCom, one of the world’s biggest ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), stablecoins, private credit and platforms are redrawing the banking battlefield. If you’re not a clear leader in select products or geographies, you’re exposed everywhere ...

The jump in oil prices after the outbreak of the Iran-US-Israel war in February and the surge in US and global spending on AI-related investment capex (capital expenditure) have rekindled financial ...

Less than a month into 2021, the world watched in amazement as the stock price of the then-troubled American brick-and-mortar video-game and consumer-electronics retailer GameStop skyrocketed after ...