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Visa/MasterCard EU dominance adds impetus to calls for bank-backed competitor
December 2nd, 2015
MasterCard and Visa now account for 86% of all payment cards in Europe, as domestic and private label schemes continue their decline, according to data from RBR. RBR’s figures indicate that €9 out of every €10 spent using a ...
Deutsche Bank’s Swiss Unit to Pay $31 Million in Tax Case
November 27th, 2015
U.S. has reached non-prosecution deals with 57 Swiss banks Firms have paid a total of $570.4 million in tax accords Deutsche Bank AG’s Swiss unit agreed to pay $31 million to receive a non-prosecution agreement in a U.S. probe ...
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 ...
Egypt’s new central bank chief faces bitter pill of currency devaluation or IMF aid
November 19th, 2015
Spare a kind thought for the travails that Tarek Amer, the newly appointed governor of Egypt’s central bank, will be facing when he formally takes up his post on November 27. He could have had no illusions how disastrous ...
Putin: BRICS Bank & AIIB to strengthen global financial system
November 19th, 2015
The BRICS New Development Bank and China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will contribute to the strengthening and stability of the global financial system, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Russia is actively participating in the work of the new ...
Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland ‘at risk of further penalties’
November 17th, 2015
Investigations into financial crisis conduct show ‘no signs of abating’, warns Moody’s Major banks have now set aside $219bn (£144bn) to pay fines and legal costs since the financial crisis. Ratings agency Moody’s, which calculated the vast provisions, ranked ...
Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Set to Scale Back Global Ambitions
October 20th, 2015
Regulation, interest rates, economy curbing profitability U.S. firms are grabbing greater share of investment bank fees Europe’s last global banks are caving in to pressure from regulators and preparing to tell investors just how much their aspirations will shrink. ...
Deutsche Bank announces comprehensive organizational restructuring and reorganization of key management roles
October 19th, 2015
Deutsche Bank will fundamentally change its group and leadership structure. At an extraordinary meeting today in Frankfurt, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank resolved to restructure the Bank´s business divisions. This will be supplemented by a reorganization of executive ...
Banks Finalize $1.86 Billion Credit-Swaps Settlement
October 2nd, 2015
Suit claimed banks conspired to prevent competition Wall Street’s biggest banks have agreed to pay $1.86 billion to settle accusations that they conspired to prevent competition in the credit-derivatives markets, according to plaintiff lawyers in the private lawsuit. Twelve ...
Citi, HSBC Partner With R3CEV As Blockchain Project Adds 13 Banks
September 30th, 2015
Distributed ledger startup R3CEV has added 13 new banking partners, bringing the total number of banks involved in its activities to 22. In a release, R3 revealed Bank of America, BNY Mellon, Citi, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ ...
