A career in finance seemed like a distant prospect, growing up in a farm in South Africa, recalls Megan McDonald, the head of Daiwa Capital Markets Europe. Her education options were limited: her ...

The European Central Bank is hoping for increased cross-border consolidation among banks to improve sector efficiency and boost valuations, ECB vice president Luis de Guindos told Portugal’s Expresso ...

The Fed's “dot plot”, a quarterly updated chart that shows the individual projections of policy-makers for future interest rates, anticipates a policy rate of 4.25 to 4.5 per cent by the and of the ...

Barbara Pianese is the Latin America editor at The Banker. She joined from Mergermarket, where she spent four years covering ...

A UK financial industry body has completed the experimentation phase testing a “regulated liability network” that would be able to make and settle payments in different forms of digital money, whether ...

According to the ECB's Euro Retail Payments Board report published this week, the push for increased digitisation of payment ...

JPMorgan is in early talks with Apple about taking over its credit card programme, currently managed by Goldman Sachs, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday citing sources ...

Deutsche Bank was busy on July 3, pricing its inaugural €500mn social bond while also raising €1.25bn through a conventional bond.

Mergers and acquisitions among UK and European banks are set to increase in the coming year as they come under pressure from ...

“Life gives you ample opportunity to learn and relearn the lesson of humility.” You could be forgiven for thinking this recent statement from Michael Barr at the Federal Reserve was a rebuke to the ...

Commerzbank chief executive Manfred Knof has said that while he will review any proposals from UniCredit regarding a possible merger, he has his own plans for the bank and hopes it could stay ...