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Twenty-four European banks fail financial stress tests
October 27th, 2014
One in five European banks have failed crucial tests of their financial strength, leaving a €25bn (£19.6bn) capital hole in the continent’s banking system at a time of renewed fears that the five-year long eurozone crisis may be flaring ...
IPO banks seek measure of success
October 14th, 2014
What is the best way to judge the success of an initial public offering? Investors in Rocket Internet probably have a view. They were left counting their paper losses earlier this month, after shares in the German technology company ...
Espírito Santo Financial Files for Bankruptcy
October 10th, 2014
Espírito Santo Financial, which was a large shareholder of the bailed-out Portuguese lender Banco Espírito Santo, lost a bid last week for creditor protection in Luxembourg. The Espírito Santo Financial Group, which at one point held about 25 percent ...
Banks pull out of dozens of benchmarks after rate-rigging scandals
October 2nd, 2014
Some of the world’s largest banks have stopped contributing to dozens of financial benchmarks to avoid further litigation risk in the wake of the Libor and foreign exchange rate rigging scandals. Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, JPMorgan and UBS, among others, ...
UK bank adviser pay catching up with traders
September 15th, 2014
Senior advisory bankers’ pay in London has risen almost on to a par with traditionally higher-earning traders, underlining the shifting fortunes of these distinct businesses within investment banks. By contrast, senior traders have suffered an average 13 per cent ...
Investment Program supported by European Finance Officials
September 15th, 2014
A three-year, €300 billion program to spur the European economy won broad support from finance ministers. Finance ministers of the European Union have endorsed plans to leverage hundreds of billions of euros in order to finance new infrastructure projects ...
European Bank Assets Recover in First Half
September 12th, 2014
Europe’s big banks returned to growth mode in the first half of this year, expanding their books by 530 million euros ($685 million), in a sign they are starting to get back on their feet after the financial crisis. ...
Brokers Battle Deutsche Bank Over Selling In-House Products
September 9th, 2014
Since the market collapse of 2008, scrutiny has intensified on the way large banks and securities firms treat their brokerage customers, particularly when it comes to steering them into the firms’ own products. One possibility raised in the 2010 ...
Abenomics, European Style
September 1st, 2014
Two years ago, Shinzo Abe’s election as Japan’s prime minister led to the advent of “Abenomics,” a three-part plan to rescue the economy from a treadmill of stagnation and deflation. Abenomics’ three components – or “arrows” – comprise massive ...
KPMG says EU bank reforms should be shelved
August 21st, 2014
Audit firm KPMG has written to Europe’s largest lenders saying a European Commission plan to separate banks’ consumer and investment-banking arms should be shelved, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. In an emailed statement KPMG said the proposal would not ...
