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Swedish banks face mixed prospects for 2024

November 28, 2023

The country’s slow growth and investment outlook will reduce demand for mortgages, a key growth driver for its retail banks.

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Open banking and payments figure in UK Autumn Statement

November 24, 2023

A break with the EU and embracing alternative payment rails is where the UK sees the future of financial service innovation.

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Fragmentation arrests EU capital market development

November 20, 2023

Three decades on from the establishment of the Single Market, Europe’s capital markets are failing to keep up with rivals.

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Bye-bye bonus cap

November 17, 2023

The much-hated bonus cap was chucked on the UK’s bonfire of EU regulation on October 31. 

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COP28 preview: Reclaim Finance

November 16, 2023

More needs to happen in the private and public sectors in richer countries if negotiations at COP28 later this month are to have any chance of reaching an ambitious conclusion, says Reclaim Finance’s founder.  

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‘Digital first, human always’ steers the Coventry’s finance transformation

November 13, 2023

Embracing digital, while retaining brick-and-mortar, is the Coventry’s recipe. 

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Pablo Hernández de Cos, governor, Bank of Spain – View from Felaban 2023

November 8, 2023

Watch our interviews from the Felaban event in Miami Beach, Florida.

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EU banks take conservative approach to calculate market risk

November 8, 2023

Lenders are opting for the standardised approach to calculate their capital requirements, rather than internal models.

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Sustainability claims need to be ‘factually accurate’, says Dutch authority

November 8, 2023

Banks and financial institutions in the Netherlands need to ensure that their sustainable claims are “fair, accurate and non-misleading”, says AFM.

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Banks under increased scrutiny as Switzerland proposes AML reform

November 6, 2023

As European regulators crack down on money laundering, Switzerland is the latest to announce reform and place a greater burden on banks.

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