Baft has updated its playbook to help respondents establish and maintain correspondent banking relationships — not an easy feat under current stringent financial crime compliance regimes.

While McKinsey’s latest annual review points to a global banking industry in rude health, there are strong undercurrents emerging to disrupt its trajectory.

Doing banking differently still means making a profit. But following its successful late-night rescue, what does this mean for the UK challenger bank?

The multilateral development bank’s new leader has spent his first four months building bridges across the world, as well as pledging to do more to combat climate change.

For the second year in a row, Vancity has topped the annual Sustainable Banking Revenues league table, which looks at how much of banks’ overall revenue is being generated from sustainable lending, investments and underwriting. 

Banks are once again turning their attention to the payments space, particularly cross-border payments, in the search for growth and margin improvement across geographies and products.

Payments Canada CEO and president, Tracey Black, provides her top tips for leading a large-scale transformation programme at Sibos 2023.

Ahead of İşbank’s centenary celebrations next year, CEO Hakan Aran emphasises the focus on social responsibility and environmental commitments, and outlines what the bank of the future will look like.

The hot topics at the transaction banking world’s biggest annual event are expected to be sustainability, CBDCs and tokenisation, the move to T+1 settlement and, of course, generative AI.

Geopolitical and economic tensions have hampered expectations of a quicker economic recovery and improved market confidence, finds the World Federation of Exchanges.