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India’s Narendra Modi launches bank accounts for all
August 28th, 2014
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a landmark initiative to help the poor. Nearly 40% of Indians have little access to financial services and are often at ...
G20 towards deal on ‘bail-in’ bond cushion for banks
August 21st, 2014
Government leaders are expected to agree in November that the world’s top banks must issue special bonds to increase the amount of capital which can be tapped in a crisis instead of calling on taxpayers to come to the ...
U.S. regulators step up warnings to banks for poor risk-spotting
August 21st, 2014
U.S. regulators are sending some of the biggest global banks verbal warnings as they crack down on the firms’ poor grasp of their own weaknesses, and push for rapid improvements in risk assessment, according to two sources familiar with ...
Ex-Rabobank trader guilty in Libor probe
August 19th, 2014
A former employee of Rabobank on Monday became the second of the Dutch bank’s ex-traders to plead guilty in a criminal plot to manipulate a global financial benchmark used to set rates on trillions of dollars in loans. United ...
ADCB launches commercial offshore banking products
August 18th, 2014
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) announced today the launch of commercial offshore banking products through its Jersey branch. Eligible ADCB wholesale banking clients will now have the option to diversify and preserve their resources with full flexibility and control. ...
Bank Overseer PwC Faces Penalty and Sidelining of Regulatory Consulting Unit
August 18th, 2014
The giant consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers occupies a position of trust on Wall Street, acting as a shadow regulator of sorts that promises the government an impartial look inside the world’s biggest banks. But the firm – hired and paid ...
Bank of England keeps rates unchanged
August 7th, 2014
The Bank of England has opted to keep its main interest rate on hold at a record low 0.5 percent despite the ongoing strength of the U.K. economy. The decision was expected. However, there is a growing view that ...
Banks Must Show They Can Die Quietly
August 6th, 2014
The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have just confirmed what most people already knew: The largest banks are far too complex and opaque for their own good, let alone for the good of the broader ...
CashFlows and Clear Books launch integrated cloud accounting and bank payments system
August 5th, 2014
CashFlows, the alternative business account and payment provider, and Clear Books, the cloud accounting company, have today launched the first fully integrated cloud based accountancy and online business banking service for small and medium sized businesses. The two innovative ...
HSBC bank’s half-year profits fall by 12%
August 4th, 2014
HSBC’s pre-tax profits fell by 12% in the first half of 2014 compared with the same period a year before. Profits were $12.34bn (£7.33bn), from $14.071bn twelve months earlier. During the half-year, the bank also put aside some $234m ...
