Spanish lender Sabadell intends to transfer newly acquired UK bank TSB onto its IT platform in a move that highlights the vital role that IT plays in banking strategy.
The addition of a Russian seat on the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication's board of directors should not be interpreted as a political move by the organisation.
As the Bank of England is modernised, with clearer communications between central bank and the City of London at its core, Brian Caplen highlights the problems that a more formalised communications system may bring about.
The role of the central bank has changed since the global financial crisis, says Brian Caplen, with many concerning themselves with social and economic inclusion issues.
Many predict that banks will be the losers in the race to corner the mobile payments market but, what they may lack in innovation, these established institutions make up for in experience and scale.
With Greece and Germany at stand off since the former elected the anti-austerity Syriza party to power, Brian Caplen looks at the actions of the Germans and the European Commission that led to this situation.
The quantitative easing package announced by the European Central Bank is unlikely to be enough to solve the problems plaguing the eurozone.
While consumers are celebrating the recent fall in oil prices, the political and economic ramifications are threatening to destabilise a number of oil-producing economies.
Ring-fencing rules in the UK are creating yet more challenges for the country's cross-border banks, which are seeing their operations further fragmented by the new rules.
As the world's most affluent consumers make the switch to digital, the financial landscape is set to change. And banks that are not nimble enough to adapt are at risk of losing out.
The rethinking of the role of securitisation by regulators is a sensible and welcome development for an area that has been unfairly maligned since the onset of the financial crisis.
As G20 leaders discuss proposals regarding banks' total loss-absorbing capacity in Brisbane, the advantages held in this regard by China's big state lenders are as stark as ever.
Kazakhstan's economy is closely tied to that of three of the four BRIC economies – Russia, China and India – so is it time to start calling them the BRICKs?
The results of the European asset quality review are due, but regardless of what they unearth there is still much work to be done before a banking union is a realistic possibility.
The clauses attached to Kazakhstan's latest sovereign bond show that governments are squaring up to so-called vulture funds in the wake of Argentina's recent default.
The financial sector may be moving down the list of global risks, but this does not come as much of a relief to the banks themselves, writes Philip Alexander from the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washington DC.
Credit scoring is about to enter the digital age, with potentially huge implications for the financial services world.
Brian Caplen remembers Santander chairman Emilio Botín, who died in September.
The dangers of cyber attacks are rapidly becoming apparent to banks, which are having to arm themselves against this new threat at a time when they are already grappling with capital, liquidity and governance risks.
The hot topic at this year's annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, US, will be interest rates – with developed economies still cautious about raising their rates and emerging economies becoming increasingly frustrated by this inaction.