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Austria’s finance watchdog orders 12 banks to raise capital buffer
December 22nd, 2015
Austria’s finance watchdog FMA on Tuesday said it ordered 12 Austrian banks to gradually raise their capital buffer by up to 2 percent of risk-weighted assets until the beginning of 2019 to cover systemic risks. Erste Group Bank (ERST.VI), ...
Asian banks seen taking pole position in post-sanctions Iran
December 21st, 2015
Asian banks are expected to be among the first institutions to venture into Iran once sanctions are removed, with Western financial players remaining cautious for some time to come, banking officials said on Thursday. Iran and world powers reached ...
How banks are trying squelch Bitcoin’s momentum
December 21st, 2015
There is no question that Bitcoin is causing a lot of worry and hand-wringing in the banking sector — and in national governments uncertain of how to regulate it. It is, after all, a highly disruptive technology — one ...
Banks are still betting on blockchain over bitcoin
December 10th, 2015
Bitcoin is back in the limelight, with speculation again swirling around the mysterious identity of the creator of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency. Intense media coverage caused a spike in the bitcoin price, following the publication of parallel investigations by ...
IFSC of Belize issued a warning regarding TradingBanks
December 3rd, 2015
International Financial Services Commission of Belize (IFSC) issued a warning to inform public and investors that It has come to the notice of the IFSC that an entity calling itself “TradingBanks” claims to be a brand owned and operated ...
ECB: Greek banks won’t need even more recapitalisation
December 1st, 2015
Greek banks will not need any further recapitalisation after the latest round, in which the European Central Bank put their additional capital needs at 14.4 billion euros, the ECB’s Monetary Policy Strategy division head Rasmus Rueffer said. The recapitalisation ...
Hackers threaten Greek banks, demand ransom in bitcoins
December 1st, 2015
Greek authorities have created a special team to protect Greek banks from a team of hackers who have allegedly threatened to bring down the lenders’ electronic systems if they do not pay a ransom. Kathimerini understands that the group, ...
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in U.S. class action suit
November 26th, 2015
A class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses 10 of Wall Street’s biggest banks and two trading platforms of conspiring to limit competition in the $320 trillion market for interest rate swaps. The class action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
ECB Says Leverage Ratio Makes Banks More Stable
November 24th, 2015
Lenders have raised concerns new standard could prompt them to take more risk, offsetting benefits The European Central Bank said Monday that a leverage ratio requirement may tempt some banks to take more risk, but will still make them ...
UK banks hardest hit by non-bank money transfer firms
November 20th, 2015
The top 20 non-bank money transfer providers based in the UK now account for over £40 billion of foreign exchange per year, saving customers over £900 million annually, according to data compiled by FXcompared. The FXcompared International Money Transfer ...
