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” ...

Basel III must be fully implemented before post-crisis rules are reopened, he argues ...

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 ...

Banks will continue to avoid holding most crypto on their balance sheets as the Clarity Act falters in the US Senate, according to industry experts. The Clarity Act (see Provision ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

Non-performing loans continued to inch up for Canadian banks last year, as a trade war with the US increased uncertainty and ...