The climate awareness campaign Make My Money Matter has written to the senior leadership of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group to ask them to stop financing the expansion of fossil fuel reserves as part of the transition to achieving net zero.

The cost of living crisis tops the list of near-term concerns in the WEF’s Global Risks Report 2023, but environmental challenges remain in the forefront today and for the next decade.

Data is the foundation of the digital economy. But how can banks truly leverage what they have at their fingertips?

With the global economy on the brink of recession and more market volatility expected, the global banking industry is bracing for another challenging and unpredictable year.

Banks are moving beyond open banking to open finance, which most believe is already having a positive impact and making the industry more collaborative.

The UK government has announced plans to review the bank ring-fencing regime, with the intent to make it simpler and more adaptable. But is this a path to deregulation and divergence with the EU?

For the first time in three years, the leading lights in the global banking industry came together in London to celebrate their successes.

The “other COP” is tackling biodiversity loss and will be attempting to hammer out an agreement on a new set of goals for nature over the next decade.

Central bank digital currencies should be designed as a public infrastructure on which banks and non-banks alike can build innovative digital schemes, products and services.

Setting up virtual branches may be the beginning, but there is so much more to the metaverse that banks need to explore.