Europe’s retail banks are being pulled in two directions at once. While digitalisation is completely changing the banking landscape, demographics are ageing fast, with more than one fifth of the EU ...
Not that long ago, stablecoins were off the menu for European banks, but as digital assets mature and regulatory frameworks take shape, stablecoins are moving from the margins of financial ...
UniCredit’s headquarters – Italy’s tallest building – tower over the Milan skyline in a blunt celebration of growth. Given that the bank’s share price has tripled in the two years to June 2024, the 32 ...
Ten years ago, when Stefan Ermisch moved to Hamburg to become chief financial officer of HSH Nordbank, the banking champion of Germany’s largest port was in deep crisis. It looked like it could only ...
As real-time domestic payments become ubiquitous across major economies, the spotlight is turning to cross-border transactions. As the global cross-border payments market is expected to reach $290 ...
While an increasing number of central banks are shifting their focus from retail to wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), China’s e-CNY, a retail CBDC, has shown notable progress, despite ...
Not long ago, Miami was known as a place middle-class Americans went to retire. Today, it is a burgeoning financial hub full of high net-worth families, private equity firms and hedge funds – and it ...
Christian Sewing has turned Deutsche Bank around. The firm has a resilience now that would have seemed unlikely when he was appointed chief executive five years ago. By his own admission, some of the ...
DBS’s private banking business has achieved impressive growth, driven by a strategic focus on talent, client retention and a thriving family office segment. The bank demonstrated impressive growth ...
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 ...
Euromoney is in a helicopter high above the frozen planes of Northern Alberta, Canada. The distances here are vast and the flight takes an hour from the town of High Level – itself not much more than ...
Soon after graduating in law from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2019, Özge Doğan sized up her career options. The obvious choice was to follow in the footsteps of her father Murat, one of the country’s ...