TGB Annual Banking Outlook 2025: Rate Cycles, Rising Gulf Banks, and the AI Inflection
TGB Archive15 April 202521 min readBy TGB Editorial Team
Coverage: 2025 · Information to 15 April 2025
TGB Annual Banking Outlook · 15 April 2025
Policy easing has fragmented across the major central banks, Al Rajhi Bank and Emirates NBD posted record 2024 profits as their pegged policy rates followed the Federal Reserve down, and supervisors report faster adoption of artificial intelligence, all as the US tariff announcements of April 2025 test the outlook.
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