EU urged to copy UK’s growth mission for financial regulators
Chiefs of finance groups including Zurich and BNP Paribas call for formal goal of supporting growth and competitiveness
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026Investment banking’s liberation year
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reported bumper earnings buoyed by a dealmaking boom and rising stock markets
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026Economists throw down a challenge to UK banks: prove us wrong
It’s a lonely time to be a crusader for tougher regulations of lenders, at least outside of Switzerland
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026Monte dei Paschi chief at odds with billionaire investor over Mediobanca
Rift between Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone and Luigi Lovaglio over Generali stake threatens to unseat CEO
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026Washington moves to strip sovereign wealth investors of US tax perk
Proposed IRS code changes would alter the calculus for SWFs to invest in America
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026Venezuela’s opposition leader gives her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump
María Corina Machado leaves White House meeting without the US president’s backing to be her country’s next leader
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026EU ‘membership-lite’ plan for Ukraine spooks European capitals
Reforms under discussion would tear up accession rules used since cold war to allow Kyiv to join in a potential peace deal
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026How Iran’s regime retook the streets
Details emerge of unprecedented crackdown, raising questions over future of protest movement
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026BBC to show programmes on YouTube in landmark deal
British public sector broadcaster will make unique shows for the platform and generate revenue from ads overseas
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026France warns US that Greenland seizure would endanger EU trade
French finance minister Roland Lescure raised concerns with American Treasury secretary Scott Bessent
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026