UK watchdog proposes cap on Visa and Mastercard cross-border fees
Post-Brexit move intended to protect British businesses and consumers from overpayment
Financial & markets regulation
Gambling group Entain’s chief steps down
Departure of Jette Nygaard-Andersen comes after bruising few years for FTSE 100 company
Travel & leisure industry
France seeks weaker EU due diligence rules for banks
Paris pushes against lenders being held liable for clients’ environmental or human rights shortcomings
Financial & markets regulation
What is a FRAX? And other pressing questions
S&P Global looks at stablecoins
Financial & markets regulation
The ‘Ponzi scheme’ behind Lebanon’s economic collapse
Inside the scandal plaguing the country’s former central banker, Riad Salameh
Central banks
Green pledges mean nothing if you can’t get the permits
Local rules are a major drag on American efforts to decarbonise
Renewable energy
Metro Bank freezes bid for BoE regulatory sign-off on risk models
Earlier fears over delays to initiative aimed at using UK lender’s internal calculations to model for risk prompted share price fall
Financial & markets regulation
City stalls UK drive to shorten settlement times for trades
Task force appointed by UK Treasury struggles to agree on date to narrow window for finalising securities deals
Financial & markets regulation
PE+QE made K&E. Will it last?
Plus, Gerry Cardinale’s dealmaking spree and KKR spots a PE opportunity others passed up
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deepfakes mislead voters in Bangladesh election
Ahead of South Asian nation going to the polls in January, AI-generated disinformation has become a growing problem
Artificial intelligence