UK banks are being criticised for unfair practices, and are not good role models, says Andy Mullineux.

Asia is underepresented and Europe and the US must accordingly accept some loss of their overblown status – but all in good time.

While expanding internationally, Europe’s big co-operative banks are at the same time drawing closer together, despite claims to the contrary by some of their CEOs. 

Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s prime minister, tells Karina Robinson that the city state’s continued success depends on self-betterment of the unskilled.

National Australia Bank has revamped its UK holdings, Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks, as local financial centres with an in-house manager style reminiscent of the 1970s. Stephen Timewell reports.

United Arab Emirates banks face a descent from the dizzy heights of last year’s boom. By Richard Dean in Dubai.

The kingdom is to build a vast financial centre to service its growth and employment needs thereby avoiding the need to import expatriates, write James Gavin and Jon Marks.

Phillip Thorpe, chairman and chief executive of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority, tells Richard Dean of a heady year spent establishing a workable framework.

Construction and oil booms are allowing Qatar to shrug off its stock market woes. Richard Dean in Doha explains.

After a rocky period, profit-laden Omani banks are eyeing new and wider markets, writes Mark Ford.