MBridge, China’s cross-border digital currency initiative, has entered the minimum viable product stage. It is the world’s most advanced cross-border CBDC and stands on the cusp of playing a pivotal ...

From small beginnings as the offshoot of a British merchant bank in 1969, Macquarie has become the world’s largest infrastructure asset manager, a powerful investment bank, a global commodities player ...

Citi’s trajectory over the past 15 years has epitomised the much wider changes in the global banking industry. Until the sub-prime crisis, the group had consumer franchises spread across 50 countries ...

For years, India’s capital markets underwhelmed. Now, the country is the beating heart of IPO activity in Asia, with a raft of big-ticket stock listings expected in late 2024 and 2025. Fees are up, PE ...

Exactly one year ago, San Francisco-based First Republic Bank was sold by regulators amid a US regional banking crisis. Citizens Financial Group, which had seen the sale as a chance to turbocharge its ...

Emirates NBD cemented its position as the Middle East’s best bank with a landmark year of strategic expansion, digital leadership and record-breaking financial performance. As one of the region’s most ...

In digital terms, DBS can feel like ‘the Terminator’, in that it absolutely will not stop. The Singapore lender simply never lets up: it never stops innovating or finding creative digital solutions to ...

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If asked to identify a place that defines financial services in the US, Miami probably wouldn’t be the first city to spring to mind – and fairly so. In consultancy Z/Yen’s ranking of the world’s ...

One of the paradoxes of banking’s enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is that the technology has excelled more in words than numbers. The ChatGPT model that triggered all the ...

Sourcing illicit funds is one thing, laundering them is quite another. That is what Osman Shahenshah and Shahid Ullah, the then chief executive and chief operating officer of the booming oil firm ...

Cash is out, equities are in, and fixed income remains ripe with opportunity, according to a survey of global financial institutions (GFIs) conducted by Natixis Investment Managers. For years now, the ...