Banks face a “wave of human-rights litigation” when a new European directive is adopted next year, top law firms have warned. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, a contested piece... Read more

Italy’s banking windfall tax could impair the resilience of the eurozone’s banks and distort markets, the European Central Bank has cautioned. The ECB’s non-binding legal opinion, published on September 13,... Read more

Founded in 2010 as a ‘challenger bank’ to compete against the UK’s high street giants, Metro Bank has a challenge of its own.  For the past five years, Metro has... Read more

Lax compliance processes at neobanks risk contributing to a rise in digital payments for money laundering, Europol has said. In its first-ever report on financial and economic crime in the... Read more

A US regulator's analysis of why First Republic Bank failed pins the blame on loss of depositor confidence, interest rate failures – and huge holes in its own oversight. The... Read more