Asset growth is likely to accelerate in 2019-20 for GCC Islamic banks after a difficult 2018.

For the first time since 2013, when AFME started tracking capital ratios at systemically important banks in the EU, the average end-point CET1 ratio had declined slightly year-on-year by the end of 2018. 

African banks enjoyed an improved 2017 on the whole, according to The Banker's Top 100 African Banks ranking.

Globally, M&A activity is down on the first quarter of 2018, though it is business as usual in the US.

New research shows the extent that leaving the EU might affect British financial services exports, with shocks likely to be felt beyond London. 

European investment banking fees are down by about a quarter over the first three months of 2019, compared with the first quarter of 2018. 

Shanghai has beaten out Singapore as the leading Asian destination for financial services FDI, but inflows are down across the board. 

Data from Boston Consulting Group shows that North American banks have paid more in terms of value than European institutions over the past decade. Kat Van Hoof reports.