Banking and Finance

The Mexican arm of Spain’s Banco Santander (SAN.MC) plans to launch digital lender Openbank by the end of March 2024 to offer checking accounts, credit cards and other services ...

UBS UBSG.S has agreed to buy Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse CSGN.S after increasing its offer to more than $2 billion, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, as authorities ...

Ten years ago almost to the day, international lenders made Cyprus an offer it couldn’t refuse – close your second largest commercial bank and seize almost half of uninsured deposits ...

By Maria Demertzis The three Rs of regulation, reserves and (legal) recourse are crucial for the smooth functioning of financial markets. These basic underpinnings are missing in decentralised finance, or ...

British banks are seeing a pick-up in enquiries to switch cash between institutions after the collapse of US tech lender Silicon Valley Bank, as contagion fears prompt some depositors to ...

Analysts worried that a banking crisis is still a possibility despite interventions A $30 billion lifeline for First Republic Bank (FRC.N) hosed down market fears about an imminent banking collapse ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has released a Policy Statement, PS-01-2023, regarding the application of Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Business, and Directive DI73...

The rise in interest rates is impacting many organisations’ investment portfolios, and by extension, the economy as a whole, economist and KPMG board Tassos Yiasemides said on Thursday. “The reduction ...

Large U.S. banks injected $30 billion in deposits into First Republic Bank FRC.N on Thursday, swooping in to rescue the lender caught up in a widening crisis triggered by ...

As SVB Financial Group (SIVB.O) wrestled with a capital shortfall and the prospect of a downgrade to its credit rating last week, it went to Goldman Sachs Group Inc (...

National Bank of Greece (Cyprus) on Thursday announced that George Agioutantis has been appointed to the position of managing director and executive member of the board of directors of the ...

Argentina’s central bank board said it agreed to hike the country’s benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 78% on Thursday after annual inflation hit 100% for the first time ...

The U.S. banking system remains sound and Americans can feel confident that their deposits are safe, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday, but she denied that emergency actions ...

Fears of a recession are growing on Wall Street, as stress in the banking sector following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and worries over the fate of Credit Suisse ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Finance Minister Makis Keravnos are in constant contact with the governor of the Cyprus Central Bank as of Thursday, following a 30 per cent slump in shares ...

The euro and Swiss franc regained some lost ground on Thursday, as markets reacted positively to the Swiss central bank’s support for Credit Suisse, ahead of a difficult meeting ...

State-owned Cyprus Asset Management Company (Kedipes) on Wednesday reported record cash inflows of €439 million for 2022, as well as a state aid repayment amount of €310 million, since the company’s creation ...

Credit Suisse CSGN.S on Thursday said it would borrow up to $54 billion from the Swiss central bank to shore up liquidity and investor confidence after a slump in its ...

Four companies licensed by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) banked with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, the two US banks which recently collapsed, according to statements ...

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has reverberated around the world, sending shockwaves through the global economy, with numerous companies in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region being directly ...

Britain’s NatWest (NWG.L) has imposed new limits on the daily and monthly amount customers can send to cryptocurrency exchanges, seeking to protect consumers from “crypto-criminals”, the bank said ...

Extreme volatility is rattling US Treasury markets in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SIVB.O) collapse and investors fear a prolonged bout of gyrations before calm returns to ...

US regulators are likely to let emergency measures announced Sunday to shore up investor confidence in the banking sector sink in and increase scrutiny of the industry before intervening with ...

Shockwaves from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank further pounded global bank stocks on Tuesday as assurances from President Joe Biden and other policymakers did little to calm markets and ...