HSBC has faced repeated disruptions at past meetings by groups such as Extinction Rebellion and is under pressure to reduce costs. Chief executive Georges Elhedery has targeted $1.5bn in annual ...

London held on to the top slot in this year’s index, with Zurich, Singapore and Geneva staying in second, third and fourth places. However, the top four centres for green financing saw their overall ...

Santander UK is to outsource more than 200 roles from its fraud operations team to a third party, which could result in a number of lay-offs.

Across 38 loans made between March 2020 and March 2025, totalling approximately $2bn, none of the financed projects appeared ...

Santander is seeking regulatory approval to restructure its UK operations by splitting off its consumer finance division, ...

US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent accused the IMF and World Bank of “mission creep” on Wednesday, saying they need to refocus on reducing poverty and strengthening economies, instead of climate ...

If the US scaled back support, MDBs’ prized AAA-credit rating could be in jeopardy, Fitch Ratings warned in a February ...

Another important application of GenAI in cyber offence is having it write code that exploits known vulnerabilities in the ...

Now, the brutal shift in transatlantic relations unfolding under the new US administration headed by President Donald Trump, ...

It is not only the large US banks that are increasing their private credit firepower. Lenders in Europe are active as well.

Bank of America and Citigroup reported better than expected Q1 results on Tuesday, with earnings and revenue lifted by strong ...

The invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 started to change things. Now, Europe is scrambling to turn its long-stated aim of “strategic autonomy” into a reality, and a growing number of venture capital ...