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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s recent visit to Kiev has two strategic goals. One of them is the acquisition of a Ukrainian bank.

Digital money can change many things, including the principles of the banking system, experts in this field believe. But they will not be able to change the essence of money, Logos Press reports.

The largest U.S. banks JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group and Bank of America have increased their bonus funds for bankers and traders by at least 10%, capitalizing on market fluctuations in 2025, according to Logos Press.

The National Bank of Belarus demanded from commercial banks to increase the share of investment financing by at least 13% in 2026, reports Logos Press.

In 2025, Moldova’s banking sector showed an increase in profitability by 23.5% (or by 938 million lei) compared to 2024 (3.987 billion lei), Logos Press reported.

On the last day of 2025 in Ukraine it was reported about the entry of a new player into the financial market – Estonian group IUTE has acquired the bankrupt RwS Bank and is creating a new institution on its basis “IUTE Bank”, – reports Logos Press.

On New Year’s Eve in the city of Gelsenkirchen in western Germany, robbers drilled through the wall of the Sparkasse bank, breaking into about 3.2 thousand cells. The damage is estimated to be up to 90 million euros. This is one of the largest bank robberies in the history of Germany, reports Logos Press with reference to DW.

Despite the general growth of citizens’ savings in the banking system, the interest in placing funds in accounts is falling, which indicates a decline in confidence and profitability of such savings, – reports Logos Press.

State participation in the financial and banking sector became a serious research topic for me back in 2008-2009, when the state owned a controlling stake in one of the largest banks in the country – “Banca de Economii”. And a decade later, in 2019, my colleagues and I in the Collective Action Party – Civic Congress included this complex problem, as an element of political-economic tools, in the party’s program documents and started a public discussion.

The aggregate financial stress index is at a historically low level: the National Bank publishes the conclusions of international experts in the annual report on financial stability, – reports Logos Press.

Amid increased demand for credit resources, banks will have to optimize their lending policies to meet the regulator’s financial stability requirements, Logos Press reported.

Due to discounts on goods, Russian marketplaces underpaid 1.5 trillion rubles in taxes to the budget in 2025, and the activities of such platforms are increasingly outside the bounds of fair competition, according to Logos Press.