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, 2026

Investment 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, 2026

Economists 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, 2026

Monte 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, 2026

Washington 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, 2026

Venezuela’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, 2026

EU ‘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, 2026

How Iran’s regime retook the streets

Details emerge of unprecedented crackdown, raising questions over future of protest movement

Posted on Friday January 16, 2026

BBC 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, 2026

France 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