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Investment Banking Revenues Soar as U.S. banks report 2024 revenues

16/01/2025 No Comments

It’s that time of year again. U.S. banks have started to report results for 2024. And there is a different feeling in the markets today …

The Five Largest Banks in Central Eastern Europe in 2025

16/01/2025 No Comments

The largest banks from across Central Eastern Europe have all grown in 2024. To confirm ...

Why Italy’s Largest Bank is Embracing Bitcoin

15/01/2025 No Comments

In 2017 the head of Italy’s biggest retail bank Intesa Sanpaolo called digital assets a ...

The Hidden Cost of Ignoring DORA: Why Financial Institutions Must Act Now

15/01/2025 No Comments

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)—set to take effect on January 17, this year—is knocking, ...

FX Rigging Scandal: Why is nobody going to prison?

December 6, 2021

Every now and again, something happens in the banking sector that makes you amazed nobody is going to prison. Last week it was reported that the European Commission has fined four of the world’s largest banks for involvement in price fixing on the foreign exchange markets.

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Why ION MarketFactory is focussed on Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

December 2, 2021

MarketFactory and TradeFeedr's partnership will allow market participants across the sell-side, buy-side, regional banks, hedge funds, brokers and central banks to connect, analyse their trading data and collaborate. The entire foreign exchange market will gain the most from our partnership.” Trading Cost Analysis TCA

Banking

Supercharge at Money2020

November 23, 2021

Supercharge is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe, according to Financial Times (FT1000) and Deloitte (Fast50). Supporting customers from their hubs in Amsterdam, Budapest and London, their digital experts are united in the pursuit of discovering and building better futures.

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Bitcoin ETFs bring regulated crypto to global banking

November 15, 2021

ETFs have been the buzzword for both the finance and crypto industries in the last quarter of 2021. Australia’s contribution has been the BetaShares ETF (a fund investing in global crypto-linked companies) launching in early November and delivering over $40m in trades on the ASX debut.

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From the CFTC to ‘CryptoDad’

October 28, 2021

‘CryptoDad’ was discussed in an interview between Scott O’Mallia, Chief Executive Officer of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA) and J. Christopher Giancarlo, Senior Counsel, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and former Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) Chairman. The conference forms part of the ISDA Regional Events program.

Banking

HSBC Reports Earnings, Announces Share Buyback

October 25, 2021

HSBC reported its revenue was down 3% from 2020 to $37.6bn, last year the bank made over $50bn in revenue. HSBC also expects adjusted costs of approximately $32bn for 2021 and 2022, meaning they have a chance to beat the Cost:Income ratio that Barclays have generated.

Asia Banking

Empowering Finance with the Agricultural Bank of China

October 15, 2021

China’s ‘Big Four’ banks include the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the China Construction Bank, the Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China. Together they have a reported combined asset value of $17.321 trillion.

Asia Banking

Customers, Regulation and China with Standard Chartered

October 14, 2021

Standard Chartered or StanChart is not a bank that is shy about it’s aspirations when it comes to China. Many of the speakers at this year’s Sibos have talked about China as well. Apart from CBDCs, digital transformation and the generous plethora of leaders involved in this years’ event, the Regulator and the Customer were also talking points.

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View from the Top with Kenneth Harvey, Chairman of CLS at Sibos 2021

October 12, 2021

CLS Group work with many of the central banks around the world though. Kenneth Harvey joined CLS Group as Chairman from his role as Group Managing Director for HSBC Holdings, in October 2014. His ‘View from the Top’ kicked off proceedings at the second day of #Sibos 2021.

Banking

Reimagine Corresponding Banking Services – The Future is Now

October 12, 2021

As correspondent banks do not have an adequate inspection program, and respondent banks often do not have a good compliance team, the transit of illegal money is very common.

Banking Events

HSBC’s Noel Quinn opens Sibos 2021 with strong focus on Sustainability

October 11, 2021

“We’ve been around for 156 years bridging east and west. We still believe there’s a need to bridge east and west, from a corporate point of view and a trading point of view.”

Africa Banking

South Africa’s challenger banks can make rapid payments inroads

October 1, 2021

For the challenger banks, winning customers from entrenched incumbents will not be easy. New entrants such as Bank Zero and Discovery Bank have been targeting millennials with mobile banking offers but to date have failed to really take off, Mokgabudi says.

Banking Events

#Money2020eu, Open for Business with CBDCs and more

September 21, 2021

Moderated by Carline Emch, Director of Government Affairs at American Express, the discussion focused on ‘How should CBDCs be designed and what function should they perform to become a trusted medium for payments’:

Banking

Why higher interest rates could help lenders earn more profits

September 17, 2021

“Banks are attractive,” Jason argues, “because they are one of the few business models around that – within reason of course – prefer higher interest rates.”

Africa Banking

Nigeria: Open banking will trigger survival of the fittest

September 1, 2021

There are 73m active bank users, creating a huge amount of customer data which remains underexploited. Nigeria’s national target is for 95% of the adult population to have access to formal or informal financial services by 2024.

Banking

Questions that UBS Banking & Financial Services Clients are raising today

August 13, 2021

The findings of UBS' Banking and Financial Services Division are interesting. They reflect the major concerns of their clients as global economies emerge tentatively from the disruption of the pandemic.

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