SHANGHAI] China kept benchmark lending rates steady on Monday (Apr 21) for the sixth successive month, matching market ...

RBI has eased short-term liquidity pressures through various tools, but these are no substitute for the stable, long-term ...

Nigeria’s broad money supply (M3) jumped 24 percent to an all-time high of N114.2 trillion in March 2025, defying the Central Bank ...

Nigeria is a cash-driven economy. Yet, today, when cash is needed, the default option isn’t the bank’s ATM but the nearest Point-of-Sale (POS) agent. ATMs, once the backbone of convenience bank­ing, ...

The rise of biometrics as a global standard and efficiency booster Unlike physical identifiers, biometric traits are ...

WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee warned against efforts to curtail the central bank’s ...

Grant Thornton is investigating IndusInd Bank's treasury transactions, focusing on whether 'internal hedges' were properly ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to prolong its discussions with Bangladesh, aiming to reach a staff-level agreement for the next tranche of its $4.7 billion support package.

TOTAL assets of the Philippine banking system rose to P26.952 trillion as of end-February 2025, according to the Bangko ...

The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) has rolled out significant enhancements to its Direct Debit service, marking a strategic ...

The implementation of Basel III across the global banking system has been ongoing since 2019, but the United States has not ...

THE PHILIPPINE banking sector’s assets rose by 8% year on year as of end-February, preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed. Philippine banks’ combined assets increased by 8.