Investec retains its crown as the best-performing bank in the UK, boosted by a high return on assets. The bank, which is dual listed in London and Johannesburg, South Africa, posted a 1.23 per cent ...

JPMorgan’s board approved a $50bn share repurchase plan, while Morgan Stanley reauthorised a multiyear buyback programme of up to $20bn with no set expiry. Last week’s stress test was a departure from ...

Santander is set to acquire TSB Bank from Banco Sabadell in a £2.65bn deal that will see the Spanish lender become the third-largest bank in the UK by personal current account balances and ...

According to exclusive data from The Banker, the number of staff employed by banks in Britain dropped by 32,000 in 2024 ...

The sharp depreciation of the Mexican peso over the course of 2024, due to a mix of domestic and international political ...

The 2025 list hasn’t yet fully seen the effects of US President Donald Trump’s trade disagreements, but fragmentation of ...

Liquidators for Malaysia’s scandal-hit sovereign wealth fund 1MDB have filed a lawsuit against Standard Chartered in ...

A surge in Saudi corporate lending during the first three months of the year has fuelled the country’s fastest ...

A 2024 study found that media bias alone costs African sovereigns $4.2bn annually in excess interest on Eurobond issuances.

Under the new proposals it is envisaged that the amount of capital GSIB holding companies must hold will be reduced to a ...

Europe was home to around half of the bank mergers and acquisitions involving Top 1000 lenders in 2024. The largest European banking merger of 2024 was Nationwide’s acquisition of Virgin Money in the ...

Many of the world’s largest banks, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, were quick to capitalise as the ...