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The European Parliament this week confirmed Thomas Gstadtner as the new executive director of the European Banking Authority (EBA) following a plenary vote. Gstadtner will serve a five-year term, which ...

Independent phone and ​laptop makers are redesigning products, testing incoming chips for fakes and passing on costs ‌as a memory shortage they expect to last through 2027 squeezes the lower end ...

The Bank of England held its key interest rate at 3.75 per cent on Thursday, but signalled a more cautious approach to monetary policy as higher energy prices push inflation higher. ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said he shared Anthropic’s ‌focus on safely managing AI, but flagged risks in the way it trains its Claude chatbot on ideas ...

The head of the UN’s shipping agency has urged governments to prevent geopolitical conflicts from becoming a pretext for attacks on merchant vessels, after 80 verified attacks around the Strait ...

Fintech giant Revolut on Wednesday applied for a Swiss banking licence and pledged to invest more than CHF 150 million in the country over the next five years as it seeks ...

International Organisation Maritime (IMO) Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez put seafarers firmly at the centre of his message for World Maritime Day 2026, warning that shipping has faced a difficult year marked by ...

The National Bank of Greece (NBG) will cancel 11.58 million treasury shares and increase the nominal value of its remaining shares to €3 as part of a capital restructuring, while the bank ...

Aegean Airlines returned to profit in the second quarter of 2026, but it was not enough to prevent a €3.3 million net loss for the first half, as higher fuel and emissions ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) ​may need to gradually raise interest rates further to curb inflation before an Iran ‌war-driven rise in fuel costs starts seeping through to wages and ...

More than one in 10 consumers could be regularly using AI agents to shop and make purchases online on their behalf by 2030, according to a new Mastercard report examining the future ...

The Middle East’s oil map is being rewritten at sea, as attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea push exporters towards pipelines, alternative ports and longer tanker ...

3.1 million unemployed people aged 15 to 74 in the EU moved into employment between the first and second quarters of 2026, while 7 million remained unemployed, according to Eurostat data. The 3.1 million people who ...

Businesses across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have largely moved beyond debating the importance of artificial intelligence, but many are struggling to deploy it at scale while keeping costs ...

Global tax cooperation is becoming increasingly fragmented, with businesses facing greater uncertainty as negotiations at the OECD and United Nations progress along different tracks while governments pursue regional and unilateral ...

Businesses are increasingly looking to secondary software licences as a way of controlling IT costs, as subscription-based models put pressure on budgets, according to an analysis by software broker Forscope. ...

EU market production fell in June, with construction and services driving a monthly decline despite a modest increase in trade, according to figures released by Eurostat. Compared with May, total ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will bring regulators, industry representatives and other stakeholders together in Paris on November 24, 2026, to examine how technology and better use of data can ...

Companies that can control the rapidly rising cost of artificial intelligence could gain a competitive advantage as AI models become increasingly commoditised, according to PwC. The professional services firm said ...

Global shipments of extended reality (XR) headwear fell 38.7 per cent year-on-year to 1.9 million units in the first half of 2026, as growing demand for XR glasses failed to offset a steep ...

Services production across the euro area fell in June as the sector’s recovery from the previous month’s growth lost momentum, while data from Cyprus showed a more mixed ...

Argentina’s rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region’s cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has found that synthetic securitisation provides only a marginal boost to corporate lending, raising questions about how far the growing market can contribute to European ...

The ​European Space Agency is considering increasing the launch rate of its Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets in the ‌coming years to overcome a potential bottleneck in satellite deployments, the agency’...