Its profit before tax for 2025: £6.7 billion, up from £5.97 billion the year before and better than the £6.4 billion average of analysts’ forecasts. Lloyds Banking Group said that its annual profit rose by 12 per cent, beating expectations. It...
Geopolitical risks and sustained market volatility are likely to dominate the investment landscape this year, according to an annual survey by the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS). Some 85% of respondents anticipate heightened geopolitical risks and market volatility, up...
Australia, Japan, and India are emerging as key private credit growth markets. Private credit assets under management (AUM) are set to cross $4t by 2030, with the APAC and EMEA regions gaining traction, according to an estimate by Moody’s. It is...
Emirates NBD, a leading UAE bank, has reported a record profit before tax of AED29.8 billion ($8.1 billion) for 2025, up 10% from a year earlier, driven by strong lending growth and higher fee income. Total income rose 12% to...
Two officials dissented from the decision, preferring a cut. The Federal Reserve pushed the pause button on its interest rate cuts Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at about 3.6% after lowering it three times last year. The central bank said...
Investors are set to face a “multi-dimensional” 2026 market, with diverging rate cycles and uneven regional growth reshaping allocation priorities globally, according to BNY’s 2026 investment outlook. The US is expected to lead the global cycle, helped by resilient consumers...
The Earth’s interconnected environmental systems are deteriorating at unprecedented rates, driven by escalating human pressures that now threaten the planet’s capacity to sustain life and support equitable development. The global population expanded from 3 billion in 1960 to 8 billion...
The global energy sector faces a $17 trillion infrastructure transformation cycle where artificial intelligence (AI) and digital workers have become essential to unlocking operational value from unprecedented capital deployment into generation capacity. This transformation timeline has accelerated significantly, with industrial...
The central bank vowed to raise rates if economic and price developments move in line with its projections. The Bank of Japan raised its growth estimate and maintained its hawkish inflation forecasts on Friday even as it kept interest rates...
Gerald Group, one of the world's leading global commodity traders focused exclusively on metals and minerals, has announced the sixteenth annual refinancing of its committed unsecured Revolving Credit Facility ("RCF"). The new RCF was oversubscribed and closed at US$365...
