Banks ready to weather headwinds from trade, geopolitical conflict. Despite an array of challenges to their profits and capital strength, the big European banks remain well-armed to face the headwinds posed by ongoing global trade disruptions and geopolitical conflicts, says...
Germany’s largest lender’s profit in the first half of the year is the highest since 2007. Deutsche Bank returned to a better-than-expected profit in the second quarter from a loss a year ago as trading earnings helped offset mixed results...
Emirates NBD’s income surged 12% to AED23.9 billion ($6.51 billion) in the first half of 2025 on strong loan growth, regional expansion and innovative product offering. Lending increased by AED41 billion (8%) in the first half of 2025, fuelled by...
Statutory profit before tax for the first six months of the year was £3.5 billion. Lloyds Banking Group reported its profit for the first half of the year rose 5 per cent, beating analysts’ forecasts, as income grew even as...
The UAE’s banking sector expanded modestly in April, with total banking assets rising to 4.75 trillion dirhams ($1.29 trillion), driven by higher lending and a sharp increase in non-resident deposits. According to data from the Central Bank of the UAE,...
Global coal demand is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year and next, despite short-term fluctuations across several major markets in the first half of 2025, according to the IEA’s latest update on the sector. The Coal Mid-Year Update shows...
European infrastructure may not scream urgency. Yet in Zurich, at the Private Equity Insights Swiss Conference, Harold d’Hauteville made a quiet but pointed case for why it should be at the top of every private equity investor’s agenda. The continent’s...
Global fusion energy investment grew by $2.64 billion in the year since last July, an industry group said in an annual industry survey, but companies said they need much more money to take the industry commercial. The investment rise took...
Global hedge fund assets under management climbed to an all-time high of $4.74tn in Q2 2025, fuelled by the largest quarterly inflows since 2014, as institutional investors poured nearly $25bn into the sector, according to the latest HFR Global...
The private credit market will be stronger in 2025 than it was in the previous year, according to the third annual Barnes & Thornburg 2025 Investment Funds Outlook Report, which identified private credit as one of three key sectors...
