The coronavirus pandemic has sped up European banks’ digital strategies, with huge investments going towards organic and acquisitional growth in technology and innovation. 

The rapidly evolving landscape for fintech and digital assets opens up opportunities for financial institutions to evolve their business models.

First end-to-end digital platform for syndicated bond market nears full production mode after successful pilot of benchmark transactions. 

The country’s banking sector has shown strength and resilience by offloading problem assets during the pandemic and maintaining improved compliance and regulatory standards.

Cyprus’s finance minister talks to The Banker about how the country’s economy has coped during the pandemic and the recovery ahead. 

London-listed neobank Tinkoff is on a growth trajectory undeterred by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Banker spoke to its newly appointed co-CEO about the bank’s expansion plans in south-east Asia. 

As US cryptocurrency markets continue to grow, so too does regulatory interest. But there is also an increasing acceptance of the central role that crypto will play in the financial system of the future. Kiara Taylor and Marie Kemplay report.

A host of benefits have continued to entice banks to adopt cloud-based technology, but as with any large-scale transformation it is not always straightforward. 

As the passion economy grows and offers people fresh and flexible ways of making money by building businesses around what they love, is the industry ready to offer services to this smaller-sized, but fast-growing segment of the corporate market?

Revolutionary change is sometimes hard to understand – but we are on the cusp of a new reality.