Consumer credit-card debt in the United States has risen along with soaring inflation and interest rates, prompting some banks to tighten their lending practices as debt delinquencies pile up.

Optimising the customer experience should be among any business’s top priorities. For customers, the more personalised their ...

In a mere two years, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has gone from moonshot to reality. Frontrunners are already pursuing use cases across the banking value chain, ranging from marketing, ...

According to PwC’s (PricewaterhouseCoopers’s) “IPO Watch EMEA 2024” report, the European IPO market saw a substantial uptick, raising €14.6 billion from 57 IPOs, a significant leap from €7.2 billion ...

Artificial intelligence technology has leveled the commercial playing field, allowing smaller entrepreneurs to compete with the major players on a … ...

Interest rates impact banks in the United States. Almost 96 percent of banking assets earn interest funded by interest-bearing liabilities equivalent to approximately 69 percent of the balance sheet.

In Mexico, as is true for any economy, the economic theory behind a private company’s valuation is crucial. However, the devil is in the details. We will start with a summary of the accepted valuation ...

Setting capital requirements for globally active banks is a fine balancing act. As regulators learned during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), insufficient capital creates vulnerabilities in the ...

The global landscape has changed rapidly, posing challenges over both the short and long runs that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will need to navigate. On the short-run macroeconomic side, ...

Trade protectionism under US President Donald Trump’s first administration, particularly through increased tariffs, had major implications for global trade dynamics, economic growth and financial ...

Whether it’s the recent launch of DeepSeek, the widespread proliferation of ChatGPT, the expected boom in agentic AI or the revolutionary potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), it is ...