Speaking at the FIN/SUM 2026 conference in Tokyo, Kazuo Ueda said the combination of smart contracts and generative AI could ...

But despite this ongoing turmoil, Canadian banks fared well overall in 2025. Royal Bank of Canada kept its place at the top ...

Lenders’ cyber defences called into question as Middle East conflict escalates ...

Gulf banks may be more vulnerable to retaliatory cyber attacks by Iran and its proxies, with experts in the region warning of increased network probing in recent days as the conflict between Iran, the ...

The UK government is considering regulating the use of agentic AI in payments as European banks and global card networks begin testing the technology in live financial transactions.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia was the only lender among Australia’s big four banks that saw positive growth year on year in pre-tax profits. Profits for fiscal year 2025 jumped by almost 5 per cent ...

International banks operating in the Middle East have told their staff to work remotely until further notice. At least six major lenders — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Houlihan Lokey, UBS, Deutsche Bank ...

This is not a forecast of inevitable crisis. It is an acknowledgment of altered conditions. Financial crime risk is increasingly shaped by geopolitical movement rather than by regulatory cadence alone ...

The outages came after Amazon Web Services said its cloud services had been disrupted on Monday after unidentified objects ...

Tensions in critical chokepoint of Strait of Hormuz prompt banks to mobilise multibillion-dollar relief packages ...

In a response to a Treasury consultation reported by Bloomberg, trade body UK Finance, whose members include HSBC, Bank of ...

Banks face “heightened financial crime and compliance risk” with sanctions screening and vessel “due diligence” tipped to become more “resource intensive” for lenders following US and Israeli strikes ...