ADA, a Luxembourg development-finance NGO, says its microfinance and inclusive-finance partners reached 430,511 economically vulnerable people in 2025 across 47 countries — work largely funded by Luxembourg's cooperation ministry and rooted in the Grand Duchy's outsized role as a hub for microfinance investment.
The European Parliament's economic affairs committee votes on the digital euro on 23 June 2026, advancing a project the EU casts as a way to cut its reliance on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal — with consequences Luxembourg's financial centre will feel directly.
UniCredit's all-share bid for Commerzbank has reached its decisive phase, claiming about 42% of the German bank as Berlin, its board and regulators resist — a test of the eurozone's stalled banking union that reaches Luxembourg's financial hub.
Alan Greenspan, who led the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 and became the defining central banker of the globalisation era, has died aged 100. His low-rate, deregulatory tenure built much of the modern financial system, but his reputation was shadowed by the 2008 crisis that followed his exit.