Switzerland’s top bank, UBS, is facing the threat of a huge increase in its mandatory capital requirements, two years after ...

At the beginning of the last decade, Swiss investment firm UBS Investment Research began partnering with satellite companies such as Remote Sensing Metrics LLC in order to gauge changes in the ...

Coming hot on the heels of accounting scandals involving Enron and Tyco, both of which sent financial markets into tailspins, the fraud committed by WorldCom, one of the world’s biggest ...

On October 22, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the latest edition of its “World Economic Outlook”. Published twice a year, the report’s October issue confirmed that the organisation ...

As the world continues to deal with the grim spectre of surging inflation this year, countries worldwide are scrambling to contain runaway prices whilst also attempting to prevent their economies from ...

The US banking system is unique in its history and industry structure. The incredibly shrinking US banking landscape is probably no surprise to the rest of the world. At the end of 2021, the United ...

With an economy that grew by a stellar 8.2 percent in the financial year ending March 2024, India remains one of the world’s fastest-growing big economies this year—as well as one of the great hopes ...

With prices reaching all-time highs in July above $2,450 per ounce, the gold market has been in fine fettle of late. With a price rally that has now broadly persisted for almost two years, the ...

In the decade following the global financial crisis, banks have faced a flood of new laws and regulations. The pace of change has been furious. Banks have been forced to hire more and more bodies to ...

As of early 2024, fraud and cybercrime within the global banking system show little sign of abating. On the contrary, the comprehensive ongoing digital transformation undertaken by many of the world’s ...

The financial-services sector is one of the most regulated industries worldwide. Every day, banks, asset-management firms, insurance companies and other institutions must sift through hundreds of ...

Inspired by a wave of disruptive digital innovation, the last decade has witnessed perhaps the most rapid evolutionary change ever within the global banking system. Thanks mostly to a combination of ...