HSBC will not shift to fully virtual annual meetings, the bank’s chair said at its annual meeting in London on Friday. Responding to a question from a shareholder at Friday’s meeting about whether the ...

Investors to press HSBC on net zero backtrack at AGM. A coalition of 30 investors managing £1.2tn in assets has urged HSBC to reaffirm its commitment to the net zero transition a ...

NatWest has changed how it defines women in its employment advertisements after The Banker reported that the lender’s work experience ads could be deemed unlawful under current UK law.

One company trying to bridge this gap is Tel Aviv-based Pecan AI. Its CEO Zohar Bronfman, says he founded the firm to “solve a growing imbalance — demand for predictive models and AI was accelerating, ...

But these robust earnings came before the latest skirmish in the trade war between the US and China — and that is a problem for boutique banks. A greater percentage of their revenues comes from M&A ...

Spain’s competition authority has approved BBVA’s €11bn hostile takeover bid for its smaller domestic rival Banco Sabadell, ...

Concerns have resurfaced about sales practices at Wells Fargo almost a decade after the bank was embroiled in a fake account ...

He said that while Santander does not expect a recession in the US this year, the bank is observing signs of an economic slowdown. He also said that customer performance in its US car finance business ...

Mark Carney’s anti-Trump platform saw him pull off a remarkable turnaround for Canada’s Liberal party in the vote to elect a ...

Deutsche Bank reported a 39 per cent rise in first-quarter pre-tax profit to €2.8bn on Tuesday, exceeding analyst ...

Outside the top end of the table, the biggest movers up the top 30 Nordic rankings, included Norway’s SpareBank 1 Ostlandet, ...

Among the top 10 Nordic banks ranked by Tier 1 capital and total assets, Finland’s OP Pohjola Group was the only bank that improved its position, moving from seventh to sixth spot, pushing Sweden’s ...