Close Brothers has paused all motor finance lending, while Lloyds Banking Group, which owns the UK’s largest car finance ...

The biennial appointment cycle saw the inclusion of 26 women, making up 27 per cent of the new partners, a slight decline from the 29 per cent share in 2022. Of the new partners, 69 per cent were in ...

European banks are undermining the energy transition, says French non-profit Reclaim Finance, which published new research revealing that 20 of the region’s largest lenders had provided more than ...

US banks and private equity firms are gearing up for potential deregulation as Donald Trump returns for a second term as US president with a Republican-controlled Senate. As reported by the Financial ...

The Trump-Vance administration will usher in a significant shift in federal financial regulatory policy. I should know: I ...

In The Banker exchange’s final episode for 2024, Aliya Shibli sits down with Barbara Pianese, Farah Khalique and Antonia Mannweiler to discuss the results of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s ...

UniCredit in September acquired a 9 per cent stake in Commerzbank, leading to speculation about a potential tie-up. The bank ...

Promoting a CRO to chief executive also conveys to watchdogs that a troubled company wants to get back on track. Geary, the author of How to be a Chief Operating Officer, says it “sends a message to ...

Those countries are facing a triple crisis. The economic and social impacts of climate change are becoming more frequent and more severe. The loss of nature and biodiversity are approaching dangerous ...

Italy’s UniCredit has closed its acquisition of a 90.1 per cent stake in Alpha Bank Romania from Greece’s Alpha International Holdings. The transaction, valued at approximately €255mn ($277.76mn), ...

CIBC’s interest in Luxembourg’s public sector business grew from a desire to extend its long-standing sovereign, supranational and agency expertise to a broader set of clients in Europe and Asia. The ...

Bettina Orlopp, Commerzbank CEO, speaks at the IIF during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington © Ting ...