The package of prudential reforms for banks, known as Basel IV, is at a standstill due to the strong impact that it could have on the entire sector. The EU fears that the increase in the capital requirements could weaken the...
PZU's takeover of Bank Pekao SA could have become a catalyst for a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the Polish banking sector. It seems that this will have to wait until all the problems associated with the CHF denominated...
"It will take no less than three to four years for us to be able to talk about attracting investors to PrivatBank," said Kateryna Rozhkova, the Ukrainian central bank's deputy governor in an exclusive interview for the CE...
Ukrainian MPs are demanding the dismissal of the management and changes in the scope of responsibility of the central bank of Ukraine.
Poland was one of the last countries in the European Union which introduced the regime of orderly liquidation of banks, known as 'resolution'.
The Ukrainian government has decided to nationalize Privatbank - the country’s largest bank, which belonged to the oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
Worldwide over 80 per cent of people have a mobile phone. At the same time, only a half of them use financial services. There is an opportunity to fill this gap and resolve the problem of financial exclusion which will also...
Ukrainian banking landscape has changed dramatically over the past two and a half years. CE Financial Observer talks with Kateryna Rozhkova, the central bank's deputy governor.
KBC has expressed interest in acquiring United Bulgarian Bank (UBB), Belgian media reported. KBC has contracted JP Morgan to help it with the procedure, according to the online edition of newspaper L'Echo.
Governor Boštjan Jazbec entered his corner office on the first floor of Slovenia’s Central Bank (Banka Slovenije) and found himself surrounded by the criminal investigators from the National Investigation Office (Nacionalni...