Private credit, which refers to loans from non-bank entities, has grown rapidly, offering investors higher returns and borrowers an alternative to traditional bank credit. Bloomberg predicts the ...

Global banks are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence tools to tackle intractable legacy issues that their workforce is either unable or reluctant to address, or that works out ...

Singaporean financial services providers are “falling short” of their responsibilities to mitigate money-laundering risks and must update their systems to avoid fines and cancellations of their ...

Which advisors would UniCredit chief Andrea Orcel want in his corner if he were to launch a hostile takeover bid?

Multilateral institutions like the World Bank and IMF have long been called on and been vocal about the role they can play in catalysing private sector investors and lenders — by absorbing part of ...

The allegations at ANZ Bank, reports The Banker’s sister publication Banking Risk & Regulation, include manipulation of bond markets, massaging trading data to win a government contract, work meetings ...

As the English expression goes, the cat has just been thrown amongst the pigeons. The cat in this case is Andrea Orcel (Andrea to his friends and enemies), UniCredit’s calculating chief executive. The ...

France, Germany and Italy have asked the European Commission to consider changes to the EU’s Basel III framework implementation, due to come into effect in January, in order to protect “the ...

US Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has called on Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Michael Hsu, to impose growth restrictions on Citigroup due to the bank’s ongoing regulatory issues.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is under renewed scrutiny after one of two recent whistleblowers, whose identity was improperly disclosed by FCA chair Ashley Alder, accused the regulator of ...

While increasing financial inclusion has been seen as an imperative among banks in Asia, the unbanked market has historically provided high risk and low returns. However, technologies like blockchain ...

Banks across the globe are facing significant challenges in the adoption of Swift’s ISO 20022 standard. The new transaction format requires an overhaul of many major banks’ legacy systems, functioning ...