China’s banking regulator is scrutinising property loan portfolios of some local and foreign lenders to assess systemic risks, sources with knowledge of the matter said, as a crisis in the…
Women remain rare visitors to the highest echelons of European banks. The 25 biggest banks by assets have seen 22 changes in chief executive and chair over the past two…
The following are excerpts from a Working Paper "Measuring Competition in the Banking Sector of Pakistan: An Application of Boone Indicator" authored by State Bank of Pakistan's Mahmood ul Hasan…
As Germany rolls out a 750 billion-euro economic stimulus package, officials and experts are discussing whether German lenders, including Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG, will be able to weather…
A global crunch for US dollars that was a hallmark of the early moments of the coronavirus crisis appears to have passed, the latest milestone in a remarkable turnaround in…
As strict coronavirus lockdowns end, some central bankers have started hinting at another kind of exit — from emergency stimulus they launched just three months ago. Markets so far appear…
Based on extrapolation from a 2005 SMEDA survey, and using commercial and industrial electricity connections as a proxy, Pakistan has five million MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises). Out of…
An Israeli-American delegation was set to take off Monday on the first commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi as the US-brokered normalisation agreement between the Jewish state and…
The Development Update of Pakistan has been released recently by the World Bank. The Bank has been the largest and trusted development partner of Pakistan. It has acted as the primary source…
Over more than a century of the Federal Reserve’s existence, the critical job of controlling the cost of money and the availability of credit has fallen mostly to white men,…
