The Finance in Africa report emphasises the challenges faced by the African banking sector - including the impact of recent shocks, such as the COVID-19 crisis and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - and the importance of gender diversity in business and banking. The report also discusses the need...

The study provides an overview of the role of digital innovation hubs and snapshot of the status of digitalisation in Europe. It comes in a very timely moment. The current COVID-19 crisis has highlighted even more the importance of digitalisation. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are at...

Using newly collected data from the EIB Bank Lending Survey, carried out by the EIB with support from the Central Bank of Jordan, this report focuses on cyclical and structural aspects of corporate and SME lending, and investigates the actions of Jordanian banks taken during COVID-19. The impact...