Ravneet Shah, CTO at Allica Bank, is on a mission to build a better bank for SMEs.

The data and intelligence satellites provide are being leveraged on a wider scale within financial services in areas such as financial inclusion and climate risk. 

Last year was the most profitable year on record for Romanian banks, but this year is set to be different.

The president of the EBRD, Odile Renaud-Basso, on the bank’s support for Ukraine following its invasion by Russia.

The rapid pace of change means such questions are not out of the realm of possibility.

Banks have begun to take tentative steps into the metaverse, exploring how they can bring their services to this fully-digital channel. With questions around the use of cryptocurrencies and the form regulation may take, there is still some way to go before banks are offering a full metaverse experience.

The UK bank has teamed up with IBM on quantum computing use case experiments in financial services.

The Banker brings together fintech investors and start-up hub facilitators to comment on record levels of investment, scale-up strategies, the desire for unicorns and the need for diversity in the sector. 

Banks are looking at how they can repurpose the tops of their urban footprint to better serve their staff and the community, as well as demonstrate their sustainability credentials.

Today’s world of smartphones, e-commerce and open-banking initiatives have drastically changed access to financial services via banking-as-a-service and embedded finance.