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"Well, to start, my first campaign platform would be to defend the banks, and you know how well that's gonna sell in this country," Mike...
It's hard to know what's going on: Are moto and cab drivers being drawn slowly into the formal economy through digital platforms, or are digital...
Santander is quietly bucking the trend of banks shedding their merchant acquiring divisions, as it announced the acquisition of Elavon Mexico this week...
China will allow banks to raise NPLs in an effort to mitigate the impact of the shutdown aimed at combatting the spread of the coronavirus. "Affected...
Swiss bank UBS will bring in ING leader Ralph Hamers as its new boss to replace Sergio Ermotti, who has led the bank since 2011.Hamers has been a leading...
Welcome to the re-bundling. A famous graphic from a few years back imagined Wells Fargo's multifarious businesses being unbundled one by one as focused...
HSBC is announcing results and new strategies today, including news that it made a $13.5 billion profit in 2019, which was lower than expectations of...
The African Development Bank has pushed back against criticism that it is pushing too much money into Nigeria and South Africa. As the US agonises over...
Chinese stocks are selling off as uncertainty around the impact of the coronavirus brings parts of the economy to a juddering halt.But midsize lenders...
Energy assets can shift from uneconomic to economic as technology improves: an oil or gas field discovered years earlier can become economic as oil prices...
"'Downtown' is a perfect example of Anglo-Americana," writes the FT, musing on Petula Clark's 1960s pop hit."The lyrics describe...
There should be some red faces in Ireland this morning after the European Parliament blocked the appointment of Irish central banker Gerry Cross as the...
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