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Top Scottish firm shifts cash to English banks ahead of referendum
September 11th, 2014
A leading Scottish firm with offices north and south of the border has shifted its cash out of Scottish banks for fear that a vote in favour of independence could lead to a run on them. With just over ...
Banks are puzzled over how to stop rate fixing
September 10th, 2014
Banks and regulators have still not found a way to be sure of stopping traders from manipulating Libor, foreign exchange and other benchmarks, top watchdog Martin Wheatley said yesterday. More than two years on from the first bank fine ...
Shifting Polls in Scotland Send Investors Rushing for Shelter
September 9th, 2014
Scotland, home to just five million people, has never weighed on the minds of currency traders and market investors the way that Russia or China or the eurozone has — until now. A poll this weekend showed Scottish voters ...
RBS unit may raise $3.5 billion in top U.S. bank IPO this year
September 8th, 2014
Citizens Financial Group Inc, the U.S. unit of Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), said its initial public offering was expected to raise as much as $3.5 billion, making it the biggest U.S. offering by a bank this year. ...
Pound Suffers on Scotland Poll
September 8th, 2014
Sterling dropped as opinion polls highlighted the risk Scotland will vote for independence next week, potentially splintering the U.K.’s 307-year-old union. Britain’s currency slid to the weakest against the dollar since November after a poll by YouGov Plc showed ...
Junk Bonds Gain Favor as European Banks Reduce Lending
August 13th, 2014
Bruce Mackenzie and Toby Ali were young bankers in the late 1990s, traversing Europe to pitch the merits of high-yield securities, otherwise known as junk bonds, to chief executives. The corporate chieftains mostly said no. Europe’s skepticism has since ...
Lloyds Banking Group charged with $370 million fine
July 28th, 2014
Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) has agreed to pay fines totaling $370 million to U.S. and British authorities investigating its part in a global interest rate rigging scandal and manipulating fees for a UK government lending scheme. The settlement ...
UK banks face break-up threat as watchdog plans competition probe
July 18th, 2014
Britain’s big banks could be broken up after the country’s new competition watchdog said it plans to launch an 18-month investigation into services for small business customers and personal current accounts. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on ...
Handful of non-EU banks to make European stress tests debut
July 16th, 2014
A handful of global banks are bracing themselves for their first results from Europe’s bank stress-testing regime, which will tell them in October whether they have enough capital to withstand future crises. Banks outside the European Union have traditionally ...
U.A.E. Bank Rules, EU Bank Legal Fees, Tibor: Compliance
July 8th, 2014
The United Arab Emirates may amend rules governing bank lending against shares after reviewing June’s stock price swings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the market regulator said yesterday. Representatives of the Securities and Commodities Authority, the central bank and ...
