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UK Payment Failures Test Banking Resilience
Customers across several UK banks and fintech platforms faced payment and transfer problems on 27 July, bringing fresh attention to the resilience of...
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Dollar Inflows Swell India’s Banking Liquidity
India’s banking system is carrying a record liquidity surplus after an unexpectedly large wave of dollar deposits flooded lenders with rupees, giving...
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Revolut Pushes Beyond Banking
Revolut’s ambition to dominate banking is moving from slogan to strategy as the fintech expands from payments and money transfers into a broader...
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Higher Bond Yields Raise Stock Market Risk
Rising global bond yields are creating a tougher backdrop for stock markets, as investors reassess the cost of money, the value of future earnings...
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Fintech M&A Shifts Toward Banking Infrastructure
Consolidation in fintech is moving away from consumer-facing apps and towards the infrastructure that banks and payment companies rely on. Recent...
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Scottish State Bank Reports £138mn Loss
Scotland’s state-backed development bank has reported a £138 million net loss, bringing fresh scrutiny to how public capital is used when governments...
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UK Lenders Could Gain £270 Billion Balance Sheet Boost
The Bank of England’s plan to ease capital rules for UK lenders could give banks more room to support borrowing, investment and market activity. The...
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European Lenders Face Four-Month AI Cyber Deadline
European banks are being pushed to move faster on cyber security as regulators warn that frontier artificial intelligence could make attacks on...
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Stablecoin Networks Become Banking’s Next Battleground
Stablecoins are moving from the edge of crypto into the centre of institutional finance. For global banks, the question is no longer whether...
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Inside Umoja Coin’s Bet on African Payments Infrastructure
In much of Sub-Saharan Africa, the language of digital finance has moved faster than the infrastructure beneath it. Payments are meant to be instant,...
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US Banks Clear Federal Reserve Stress Tests
The United States' largest banks have cleared the Federal Reserve's latest annual stress tests, demonstrating sufficient capital strength to...
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Rate Hold Highlights New Banking Reality
The Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged underscores a growing challenge for the banking sector: navigating an environment...
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Japanese Rate Shift Boosts Banking Margins
The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate to 1%, a move that would take borrowing costs to their highest level since 1995...
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Fraud Challenge Tests Financial Sector Resilience
The UK financial services industry is confronting a rapidly evolving fraud landscape as criminals deploy increasingly sophisticated tactics to target...
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Banking Access Probe Raises Governance Questions
A widening US investigation into alleged “debanking” practices at some of the country’s largest financial institutions is placing governance,...
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Singapore Pushes Banks To Cut Onboarding Delays
Singapore is pressing private banks to shorten account-opening times for wealthy clients, aiming to bring the median process below one month by the...
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UK SME Lending Falls As Banks Retreat
Bank lending to UK businesses has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 30 years, intensifying concern over how effectively the financial system is...
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Sanctions Tests Bank Compliance Controls
Deutsche Bank’s London branch has been fined £165,000 by the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation after processing payments that...
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Stablecoin Rules Signal Faster Market Modernisation
The Bank of England is preparing to publish draft rules for systemic stablecoins in June, as policymakers move towards a year-end regulatory...
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Brussels Banking Rules Test Financial Reset
Brussels is facing mounting concern from City figures over planned banking rules that could disrupt lenders, complicate the UK-EU relationship and...
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