With a fresh, effective strategy projected for the coming decade, Costa Rica’s oldest bank is working towards establishing absolute market leadership

Germany’s second biggest bank by assets has finally seen profit after months in the red, due to risky loans in the country’s ailing shipping industry. The profit could just be enough for the firm to avoid a regulatory intervention

World Finance speaks to Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, Professor in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University, about how Argentina will disentangle itself from economic chaos

The financial journalist and author of new book Bad Banks calls for a return to “plain vanilla utility banking”

World Finance speaks to Kah Chye Tan, Chair of the ICC Banking Commission, about whether regulatory clampdowns on financial institutions will help or hinder Europe’s growth

In an effort to raise serious capital, ING Group has sold its shares in NN Group NV as part of a large-scale IPO

BNP Paribas is set to dole out almost $9bn and plead guilty to criminal charges after the bank’s top leaders spent all weekend preparing for the verdict from US authorities, which could prove seminal in banking history

BofE’s cyber security framework could be extended to sectors including power, energy and telecoms, suggests insider

Amid a slew of bank statements, Bank of America is looking to settle several probes with a record multi-billion dollar fine

Australia’s leaders have presented the toughest budget in 20 years in an attempt to deal with a growing budget deficit. Critics say that the tough measures are unnecessary and may do more harm than good to the Australian economy

Recent results suggest that Japan is winning the war against inflation, with consumer inflation having again risen for its tenth consecutive month

Central bank transparency has increased these past two decades since the former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson made public the consequences of secretive monetary policy

Agency announces deficit expected to drop to lowest since 2007, before rising again from 2016

The Washington-based development bank has trimmed its economic outlook for the East Asia and Pacific region

A rebasing calculation conducted by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics has leapfrogged the nation above South Africa in terms of GDP