Mobile banking and instant payments have been the hot topics at Sibos, with their commercial viability becoming increasingly evident to banks.

China's tech capabilities are evident in a number of areas, particularly e-commerce. Brian Caplen looks at what the county needs to do to demonstrate its technological might on a global scale.

The World Payments Report 2015 states that hidden payments are now too big to ignore. Brian Caplen says that banks and regulators must take note.

With the financial crisis all but negotiated, banks and bankers may be looking forward with optimism at long last. However, reports from McKinsey and Deloitte suggest that the next big challenge – the impact of fintech firms – needs their imminent attention.

The post-financial crisis push in Western countries towards low interest rates, QE and encouraging corporates to utilise the capital markets has had an impact beyond the borders of the developed world, leading to some unintended consequences.

The US Federal Reserve's decision not to raise interest rates was a political one, and not driven by economics. The long-term consequences of prolonging this 'managed depression' will not be pretty...

Bankers need to walk a fine line between embracing regulation while remaining innovative and competitive.

The concept that bankers know when they are going to make a loss – which forms part of the IFRS9 rules launched in in 2018 – is fundamentally flawed.

Blockchain and the Internet of Things have plenty of advocates in the financial world, but could it be the big banks that give them the scope to become all-encompassing?

The slowdown in China is hitting export-dependent emerging economies hard. It is those that planned for the bad times during the good, however, that will suffer the least.