For policymakers tempted to reopen the post-crisis settlement in the name of competitiveness, the message from BIS is that the reforms are not yet fully bedded in, and that the evidence to justify ...

European Commission seeks further reforms to Italy’s ‘golden power’ law. The European Commission is pressing Rome to make further changes to its so-called “golden power” ...

According to the American Society for Engineering Education, over half of the enterprise cloud infrastructure in the EU is provided by US “hyperscalers”, with Amazon Web Services holding a 31 per cent ...

The Central Bank of the UAE has let banks use overseas data centres for key cloud service functions after drone attacks on local data warehouses caused widespread disruption to local banking and ...

The pace of global change continues to accelerate in 2026, beginning with the “extraction operation” in Venezuela, followed by threats of the annexation of Greenland, and then a decapitation strike on ...

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

Cyber attacks on targets in the Gulf region have trebled since the start of the Iran conflict, as questions are asked about ...

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

The payments sector is already heavily automated, De Sousa says, and the introduction of agentic AI is unlikely to give ...

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

The UK announced its first emergency sanctions package within hours of Russia’s invasion, including asset freezes and ...

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