While banks in the Nordic country recorded higher net income in 2021 than in 2017, inflation and increasing house prices may prove challenging in the near term.

The operating environment for banks in Hungary looks set to worsen over the coming months. But its largest lenders are well fortified.

CIMB Group was the only banking group in Malaysia to see a plunge in profits in 2020, but has rebounded nicely in its most recent annual report.

Moody's has revised down real GDP projections for 2022 and 2023.

The year on year supply of socially responsible bonds and loans in Europe dropped in the second quarter of this year. 

Global merger and acquisition deal activity continues to drop year on year, with July seeing a fall of 62% in announced transactions compared with the previous year.

The region has seen strong recovery post-pandemic, but obstacles to growth are forming in the shape of rising energy and food prices, inflation and impending political events.

The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks ranking for 2022 saw a mixed picture for European banks’ capital positions, with almost every lender in the top 10 table for central and eastern Europe seeing a rise in their Tier 1 capital, yet the opposite was true for western Europe. 

Financial services boardrooms in Europe continue to be dominated by men, according to a recent report by EY.