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The comments section of the FT's story about cranky bankers and agitated sheikhs in Saudi Arabia last weekend throws up some real gems. Subscribers...
Visa will ramp up its digital capabilities in Mexico after entering a strategic partnership with nonbank merchant acquirer Clip, which raised a further...
Between reality and the goal of a United Kingdom severing its connection to the red-tape monster of Brussels is a $640 trillion clearing market with a...
Data schmata. If only we could organise everything efficiently, eh? Big tech is piling into banking services with Google this week announcing its intention...
The Qataris who own close to one-tenth of Deutsche Bank decided they had enough of chairman Paul Achleitner last month, after the veteran operator failed...
Visa has swooped in on Nigeria's Interswitch with a $200 million investment in the future of digital payments in Africa, in a move which values the...
Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain. Switzerland is quietly nabbing a lot of blockchain business with one of the world's major blockchain initiatives...
Rana Foroohar, the FT's associate editor, has brought a new perspective to the paper's coverage of technology and business, and today she's...
It's barely six months since Softbank's reputation was so good that it stepped in to help out Wirecard with a $900 million convertible cash bond...
Now that the UK won't be around to complain, the EU's federalists are back with a bigger banking plan. Germany has given up its opposition to...
There's been an uptick of African banks growing their networks laterally across Africa, the latest being Nigeria's Access Bank. The lender, which...
The world's richest IPO will go ahead this year as Saudi Aramco – allegedly the world's most profitable company – announced that it will list...
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