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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka’s economy is currently experiencing a phase of strong growth, driven by an increase in domestic consumption and a pickup in business and infrastructure spending. Furthermore, the ...

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 ...

It was recently reported that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) had rated a third of large US national banks as having unsatisfactory management. That report raises serious questions ...

Following the end of the Second World War, Japan’s economy experienced several bouts of phenomenal growth. Perhaps most famously, its consumer-electronics industry grew to make Japan the industry’s ...

Both of these buildings in downtown Houston, 1400 Smith Street and 1500 Louisiana Street, were formerly occupied by Enron. August 2021 marked the 20 th anniversary of arguably the most notorious ...

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, financial institutions all across the world are under intense pressure to improve efficiency, reduce costs and boost productivity. Indeed, there is ...

It’s one of the world’s scarcest metals. With many qualities making it highly sought after across such diverse industries as automotive catalytic converters, jewellery, refining, new hydrogen ...

The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, the representation of US economic might on the global stage and the de facto currency unit for the overwhelming majority of financial assets. Throughout ...