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FTSE gains on banks and oil. Picture: PA Banks have been weighed down over the past year. After struggling over the past year, banks in the UK have started showing some better performance in recent months. Weighed down by the […]

Photo : BOQ to acquire ME Bank. (Credit: Tumisu from Pixabay.) Bank of Queensland intends to fund the acquisition through an underwritten capital raising of A$1.35bn Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has agreed to acquire Members Equity Bank (ME Bank) for […]

Analysts from the finance house have made a broad statement on hedging investments to investor portfolios. According to a recent note made by the team of financial analysts representing JP Morgan, Bitcoin’s current status functions as an uncorrelated hedge to […]

As part of its initiative to continuously support entrepreneurs in the country by providing financial and advisory services for the growth of their businesses, Titan Trust Bank Limited in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), last week launched an […]

Barclays faces a second consecutive year of shareholder pressure on its position as Europe’s largest fossil fuel financier, after a shareholder resolution has been filed for the bank’s upcoming AGM on 5 May.The resolution calls for financing and exposure to […]

Overview of Amsterdam’s stock exchange interior as Prosus begins trading on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo Amsterdam has displaced London as Europe’s biggest share trading centre after Britain left the […]

Jes Staley, CEO Barclays, arrives at Downing Street for a meeting in London on January 11, 2018. The Barclays chief has said he believes Brexit is ‘more than likely on the positive side’. (AFP via Getty Images) In a post-Brexit […]

The European Commission (EC) will be working with the European Central Bank (ECB) to look at the potential risks of developing and issuing a Digital EuroThe European Commission and the ECB are partnering to consider the potential downsides of the […]

The bank said a major reason for extending the block was the British Gambling Commission’s October 2020 data, with the number of online bets and active accounts rising month-on-month as many workers returned to working from home.“This is a challenging […]

World Bank The World Bank plans to invest over $5bn within the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve agricultural productivity, and promote livelihoods across 11 African countries.It said the countries were on a swathe of land stretching […]