Makhtar Diop, managing director of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, speaks about the implications of the recent partnership agreement signed with other multilateral development banks.

Pakistan’s goal of making all banking assets sharia-compliant by 2027 remains a realistic prospect says Meezan Bank’s founding president and CEO, Irfan Siddiqui.

Lenders in the UAE are increasingly keen to burnish their green credentials ahead of COP28, which begins next month.

HE Sheikh Bandar Bin Mohammed Bin Saoud Al-Thani, governor of the Qatar Central Bank, talks about the country’s fintech and CBDC strategies and how the bank is nurturing the growth of Islamic finance.  

AFC Commercial Bank joins the league of African banks leveraging Intellect Global Consumer Banking to support its digital banking experience.

Experts are divided on whether the government’s bold change of policy will help the sector.

The EIB’s head of ESG hopes for a more “switched on” private sector at this year’s COP28 meetings in Dubai, but says much more could be achieved if the COPs on climate change and biodiversity were combined.

A system enabling newcomers to port their credit scores to the UK is given a provisional industry welcome. 

Have financial institutions got the balance right between human and automated decision-making when it comes to fraud detection and management?

Like other challenger banks, Metro Bank has struggled with profitability over the past few years. But unlike others, it also reported a drastic drop in Tier 1 capital.