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ECB’s payments body warns about ‘increasingly inventive’ fraud
According to the ECB's Euro Retail Payments Board report published this week, the push for increased digitisation of payment ...
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Banks push back against ‘opaque’ US bank M&A rules
Barbara Pianese is the Latin America editor at The Banker. She joined from Mergermarket, where she spent four years covering ...
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UK payments industry makes progress with new digital money network
A UK financial industry body has completed the experimentation phase testing a “regulated liability network” that would be able to make and settle payments in different forms of digital money, whether ...
The Banker18h
Markets rise on Fed interest rate cut; UK banks face increased FCA scrutiny on fair deposit rates
The Fed's “dot plot”, a quarterly updated chart that shows the individual projections of policy-makers for future interest rates, anticipates a policy rate of 4.25 to 4.5 per cent by the and of the ...
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UK and European bank mergers to increase in 2025
Mergers and acquisitions among UK and European banks are set to increase in the coming year as they come under pressure from ...
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Citi COO’s data responsibility cut after $136mn fine; European governments sell €16bn of bailed-out bank shares
The sell-offs have also sparked merger opportunities. Last week, UniCredit acquired a 4.5 per cent stake in Commerzbank from ...
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Expect more – and bigger – large banks, says OCC head
Michael J. Hsu, acting US Comptroller of the Currency, speaks about the increasing relevance of non-financial risks ...
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Push for alternatives to US dollar and new payment systems accelerates as sanctions scale
Russia changed its tune after international sanctions “squeezed” its economy, with exporters facing lengthy payment delays ...
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Nasdaq’s tech pivot targets cloud and tokenisation
The US stock exchange’s head of capital markets technology says regulation is driving a ‘generational shift’ in the area ...
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AI in payments fraud detection expands but needs strong regulatory oversight
“A robust permissions and access security framework is required for AI in banking. This is to ensure that sensitive payment ...
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JPMorgan in talks to take over Apple partnership from Goldman Sachs; ECB scrutinises banks’ private credit exposure
JPMorgan is in early talks with Apple about taking over its credit card programme, currently managed by Goldman Sachs, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday citing sources ...
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UK customers more likely to switch banks than European peers
UK customers are among the most likely to switch banking services providers to a non-legacy institution, with 33 per cent of ...