Credit Suisse had bumper years, particularly during the dotcom boom, and it weathered the 2008 financial crisis reasonably better than UBS. But trouble was never far from the bank’s door. 

The sale of Credit Suisse to UBS may have preserved market stability for now, but economists warn we are not out of the woods yet. 

Robust cloud-based payments systems are seen as a crucial way for incumbent banks to compete more effectively with fintech start-ups.

A year in, how are the sanctions imposed by the West on Russian entities, goods, assets and individuals taking shape?

The central bank of Turkey’s macroprudential adjustments has made the operating environment for the country’s banks increasingly complex.

Now is an opportune time to consider introducing UK regulatory investigation time limits in order to achieve better fairness and proportionality.

Despite gains at the boardroom level, women are still largely absent from the executive level within European banks. So, what will move the needle?

We should err on the side of caution when risk-weighting climate-exposed assets, but delaying action in its regulation is making a difficult problem worse.

With a multitude of open avenues for litigation, here are the key areas that banks should keep tabs on in the coming year.

The anti-fraud duty has gained recent prominence as upcoming legal challenges threaten to increase banks’ responsibilities in the context of increasingly sophisticated fraud.