Western banks are bulking up in Japan, attracted by record investment banking fees and expectations of a rise in deal-making as cashed-up companies in the world's third-largest economy step up…
Western banks are bulking up in Japan, attracted by record investment banking fees and expectations of a rise in deal-making as cashed-up companies in the world's third-largest economy step up…
Big banks in Britain are preparing for any future escalation of Western sanctions on China and have shared their “scenario planning” with the British and US governments, a senior banking…
Some of Europe’s biggest banks are preparing back-up generators and to dim the lights as they brace for potential power cuts and energy rationing that threaten the money system underpinning…
Like many people in crisis-hit Lebanon, Elias Skaff used to wait for hours to withdraw cash at the bank but now prefers money transfer companies as trust in lenders has…
Turkey's deteriorating finances are hurting the country's banks whose reliance on dollar funding makes them vulnerable to the worst-case scenario: a sudden halt or reversal of foreign investment flows. International…
Indian refiner Essar Oil is looking to raise over $1 billion from trading houses after its new Russian owners could not raise loans from major Western banks due to sanctions…
Tougher US sanctions against Cuba have led international banks to avoid transactions involving the island, while prospective overseas investors put plans on hold and foreign firms operating in the country…
Wildly exaggerated numbers have been floated on the amount of black money belonging to Pakistanis lying in Swiss banks. The claims with regard to such sums of money stashed abroad…
In an article in these pages, ‘No one wins a war’ (June 17), the writer Abdul Sattar has attempted to assess the prospects for settlement of the conflict between Russia…
