The ongoing war in Ukraine is causing significant disruption to the political framework of Europe and the financial markets. However, the technology and business operations are holding up. 

Turkey’s banks are coping well with the financial, digital, economic and geopolitical risks confronting them

Sustainable finance and digitalisation helping to keep Turkey’s bankers positive

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.

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.