Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank move up the best performing rankings as restructuring efforts bear fruit.
Italy’s largest lenders moved up in this year’s best-performing bank table, while last year’s top performers saw their fortunes wane.
BBVA, Kutxabank and Banco de Sabadell are the three top performers in Spain this year, with the latter increasing its pre-tax profits by more than 87%.
BNP Paribas is crowned France's best-performing bank for 2023, but pre-tax profits for most French banks are hit by characteristics unique to the French retail market.
Following record profitability for Turkish banks in 2022, Akbank is Turkey’s best-performing bank in this year’s rankings.
Major UK banks fall down the performance table, while building societies improve their positions.
UK challenger Monzo debuts in the Top 1000 while Turkish banks dominate highest return on capital and assets
To build on MiCA, nuance is needed to avoid overburdensome regulation.
The consequences for firms do not end with the looming deadline of July 31.
Banks are sitting on a trove of unexploited data for predicting consumer behaviour to meet new consumer protection standards.
The FCA’s crypto asset marketing rules are approaching their final state, but firms have been given a matter of months to comply.
The UK needs to focus on supporting companies in a range of diverse sectors.
UK banks and the wider financial services sector in the UK are taking measures to protect their employees’ mental health, according to Mental Health First Aid England.
In the Irish market – reflecting a wider trend – traditional banks’ loss has been NBFIs’ gain.
The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority has published detailed principles for banks to follow on managing their model risk.
The FCA has set out plans for a revival of the country’s equity capital markets post-Brexit.
The board member responsible for corporate clients, Michael Kotzbauer, talks about how the tough retrenchment process has left the German lender in a stronger position to weather further storms.
The country’s banks are in a more solid position than their European peers, but ESG and digitisation remain challenging for the sector, and more consolidation could be on the cards.
Heads of digital assets at buy- and sell-side firms are busying themselves with digital bond issuances on their proprietary tokenisation platforms. But what is behind their newfound love for tokenising traditional financial assets?
A professor of financial economics at Warwick Business School examines the pros and cons of ring-fencing banks and suggests a new method to more effectively protect people’s savings.