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Caribbean Association of Banks endorses SWIFT’s KYC Registry
September 28th, 2015
SWIFT’s KYC Registry gains momentum amongst Caribbean banks. SWIFT today announces that the Caribbean Association of Banks (CAB), with regional membership of 45 financial institutions across 16 countries, endorses The Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry, a centralized repository that ...
Deutsche Bank to close almost all Russian operations: sources
September 15th, 2015
Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has decided to close its Russian operations, apart from transaction banking services, two financial sources told Reuters on Monday. Such a move would make Russia the first casualty of a sweeping plan to shrink the group’s ...
Big Banks Agree to Settle Swaps Lawsuit
September 14th, 2015
Dozen banks, Markit and International Swaps and Derivatives Association to pay combined $1.87 billion Wall Street’s biggest banks have agreed to a tentative settlement over allegations that they conspired to rig the market for credit derivatives. Twelve banks and ...
U.S. banks moved billions in trades beyond CFTC’s reach
August 24th, 2015
This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished. “We saw strange things in the data,” said Chris ...
Banks fine tally since crisis hits $US260bn
August 24th, 2015
The wave of fines and lawsuits that has swept through the financial industry since the 2007-08 crisis has cost big banks $US260 billion, new research from Morgan Stanley shows. The analysis, which covers the five largest banks in the ...
European Banks to Sell a Record $154 Billion of Loans, PwC Says
August 20th, 2015
European banks are set to divest a record 139 billion euros ($154 billion) of loans this year, led by the U.K., as the industry accelerates asset sales to meet new rules, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Banks have offloaded 54.5 ...
Wells Fargo Advisors hires brokers to be in banks
August 18th, 2015
Wells Fargo Advisors’ bank channel, which puts brokers in bank branches, said Monday it hired two brokers, Jane Drew and Timothy Pester. Jane Drew joined Wells Fargo in Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 7 from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where ...
British banks facing billions in fines over forex-rigging scandal
August 18th, 2015
British banks could face billions of pounds of civil claims over the rigging of the ‘wild west’ foreign exchange markets following a landmark court case in New York. Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland were among nine banks ...
Samsung Pay lines up card schemes and banks for launch
August 14th, 2015
Samsung will introduce its mobile payments service in South Korea later this month, with Visa, MasterCard and several major banks onboard for a US launch in September. The handset manufacturer confirmed at an event to unveil the Galaxy S6 ...
Citigroup Hires Ex-Deutsche Bank Prime Services Duo in London
August 12th, 2015
Citigroup Inc.C -1.91% has hired two former London-based Deutsche Bank AGDBK.XE -1.53% managers for its European client-services businesses, as the U.S. bank aims to attract more hedge funds as clients in stock-trading and other areas, according to an internal memo sent to employees on Tuesday. Citigroup ...
