Pakistan’s goal of making all banking assets sharia-compliant by 2027 remains a realistic prospect says Meezan Bank’s founding president and CEO, Irfan Siddiqui.
Lenders in the UAE are increasingly keen to burnish their green credentials ahead of COP28, which begins next month.
HE Sheikh Bandar Bin Mohammed Bin Saoud Al-Thani, governor of the Qatar Central Bank, talks about the country’s fintech and CBDC strategies and how the bank is nurturing the growth of Islamic finance.
AFC Commercial Bank joins the league of African banks leveraging Intellect Global Consumer Banking to support its digital banking experience.
Experts are divided on whether the government’s bold change of policy will help the sector.
The EIB’s head of ESG hopes for a more “switched on” private sector at this year’s COP28 meetings in Dubai, but says much more could be achieved if the COPs on climate change and biodiversity were combined.
A system enabling newcomers to port their credit scores to the UK is given a provisional industry welcome.
Have financial institutions got the balance right between human and automated decision-making when it comes to fraud detection and management?
Like other challenger banks, Metro Bank has struggled with profitability over the past few years. But unlike others, it also reported a drastic drop in Tier 1 capital.
Disability can make it hard to access vital financial services. But technology, when employed correctly, can help lower the barrier.
Sovereign wealth funds' integral role in the region's domestic economic transformation necessitates higher for longer oil prices.
The Danish renewable energy giant became the first energy company to pursue a new type of financing — a blue bond.
Moving the bloc to a T+1 settlement system was a topic of keen debate on the first day of this year’s AFME conference.
The GCC’s most diversified economy is set to outperform its neighbours amid this year’s fluctuating oil prices.
Nearshoring is poised to revolutionise Mexico's trade landscape, potentially adding $168 billion to its non-oil exports in the next five years, reshaping the nation's place in the global market.
The imminent presidential elections will decide which of three paths will be taken to fix the country’s ailing economy. The IMF continues — for now — to tolerate its main debtor.
Olugbenga Agboola, founder and CEO of Flutterwave, talks to editor Joy Macknight.
The sector was described as stable by the IMF in September, but the ongoing conflict with Israel is set to change the outlook.
Société Générale has grown its service offering in Italy by expanding its agreement with Spectrum Markets, which allows the bank to list its products on the platform.
Experts say different supervisory approaches mean mid-size US banks are still vulnerable to interest rate risk, while European banks remain relatively safe. But banks should set aside more capital to ensure a more resilient system.