S&P Global has yet to see sustained deterioration in UK bank asset quality as country slowly emerges from pandemic.
Outlooks changed to stable for Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, on the expectation that profitability will recover.
Total financial services capital investment into South Africa rose 41% last year, while Nigeria saw a 57% drop.
Digital transition creating surge in well-paid short-term project roles in financial services sector.
Government initiatives helped lure foreign banking and fintech investment last year despite Covid-19 crisis.
Large government debt and vulnerability to external shocks could derail the banking sector’s recovery in 2021.
The country’s banks entered the pandemic in poor shape, and the central bank has warned the NPL ratio could exceed 13% this year.
Push by regulators to force leading tech firms to share data could provide a huge opportunity for other players.
Ongoing protests and heightened risk of political stalemate set to affect profitability and asset quality in the banking sector.
A huge unbanked population and high mobile penetration offers vast opportunities in fintech.
Programme encourages whistleblowers from anywhere in the world to provide info about money laundering to relevant authorities.
Merger set to create Spain’s fifth largest bank and follows approval of union between Bankia and CaixaBank.
Finance and business executives condemn violence that left four people dead and urge peaceful transition of power.
Additional lockdown measures will add negative pressure to banks' profitability, says Moody’s.
G-SIBs can afford core capital ratios to fall by 5 percentage points before eating into capital buffers, according to Capital Economics.
Public confidence collapsed after the global financial crisis but has been steadily climbing, according to Gallup.
Individual shocks could still result in investors suffering losses similar to 1994 or 2013-2014.
Surge in mergers and acquisitions could reduce number of banks in the US over next decade, according to report.
Lenders' profitability set to weaken on the back of higher impairments and lower net interest margins.
Lenders seek secure system to share info about shadowy entities behind dirty money deals.