Transaction banking, at its core, supports day-to-day commercial activities: buying and selling goods, making payments, issuing guarantees, and collecting receivables. These activities are not fundamentally different in Islamic and conventional… read more →
Over the past year, there has been steady, if uneven, progress for African women in trade and finance. On the one hand, there is far greater visibility and intent around… read more →
On Wednesday, 28 January, ADCB Egypt, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) Group, announced its partnership with Swiss tech company Temenos. The collaboration allows ADCB Egypt to… read more →
2025 was a unique year for banking, and 2026 will only continue this trend. This year’s banking market landscape will continue to be disruptive, marked by geopolitical crises, macroeconomic instability,… read more →
Listen to this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Podtail, ListenNotes, TuneIn When Russian tanks rolled into the Donbas, Sumy, Kherson and other regions of Ukraine in the early morning of 22 February 2022, the world… read more →
Listen to this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Podtail, ListenNotes, TuneIn Alternative lenders – non-bank entities that provide financing outside traditional banking channels – are no longer peripheral to the trade finance ecosystem. Their increased… read more →
Announced yesterday, 29 December 2025, Ecobank Group’s memorandum with Bank of China (Mauritius) follows Standard Bank’s integration with China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System in November. Both initiatives aim to reduce… read more →
Imagine you are walking towards a coffee shop to fuel up for an important meeting. A button appears on your phone. You hit yes. You walk into the shop, and… read more →
The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has reduced its benchmark capital requirement for UK banks to 13% of risk-weighted assets, down from 14%, a move that could provide… read more →
In the early days of cartography, map makers would trace the borders of the known world and, once they got to the end of the lands they knew, write “hic… read more →
