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Visitors discover images and models of ’The Line’ project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s non-oil economy shrugs off regional tensions

April 23, 2024

Burgeoning domestic economy set to return country to growth this year as oil revenues lag

Members of the EU Parliament sit in the hemicycle during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Starsbourg, France

Banking groups call for caution as EU advances on common deposit insurance scheme

April 19, 2024

The scheme, first proposed in 2015, has long been stalled because of concerns from some states about sharing risk

Graphical representation of digital buildings and binary code overlaying the Canadian flag’s maple leaf

Canada announces date for real-time payments system launch

April 18, 2024

The new RTR system for fast digital transactions is set to revamp Canada’s ageing payments infrastructure

A man walks past photovoltaic solar panels at the Benban Solar Park in Aswan, Egypt

World Bank and AfDB presidents set goal to bring electricity to 300mn Africans by 2030

April 18, 2024

Initiative to power up Africa will require more than $30bn of investment

Michelle Bowman, member of the US Federal Reserve board of governors

Stop using SVB failure to beat up banks, says Fed official

April 18, 2024

Bank regulators need to think hard about consolidation rules post-SVB, says Michelle Bowman

View over the city of Yerevan, capital of Armenia, with the two peaks of Mount Ararat in the background at sunrise

Armenia’s future increasingly influenced by immigration

April 18, 2024

Closer alignment with the EU is set to boost economic prospects further

Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, during the Institute for International Finance Global Outlook Forum in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

UK is disinflating with full employment, says Bank of England governor

April 17, 2024

Andrew Bailey gave a speech on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank’s spring meetings

The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. logo at one of the bank's branch in Shanghai, China

Six Chinese state-owned banks’ outlooks downgraded by rating agency

April 17, 2024

Downgrade indicates state’s reduced ability, not willingness, to provide ‘same level of extraordinary support’

A woman using a laptop showing financial reports

UK announces taskforce to identify more open finance use cases

April 17, 2024

This is the first step for the UK Treasury to lay the foundations of secondary legislation on open finance

A portrait of Lazaros Papagaryfallou, CFO of Alpha Bank

Asset recovery positions Alpha Bank Greece for growth

April 17, 2024

Alpha Bank turns the corner on asset issues and sets growth trajectory

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