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Foreign exchange trade suspension in Nigeria; Investors dump shares of Nigerian banks
August 25th, 2016
Investors sold shares in Nigerian banks on Wednesday, a day after the central bank suspended nine lenders from foreign exchange transactions for failing to remit money owed to the government. The central bank suspended FCMB, First Bank, United Bank ...
Four Major Banks Plan to Create Their Own Cryptocurrency
August 25th, 2016
Few major international banks may soon have their own cryptocurrency. According to a recent media report, the banks that are initially going to be part of this initiative includes UBS, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank and Banco Santander. These four major banks, who also happen to ...
Banks and tech firms apply blockchain to trade finance
August 10th, 2016
An HSBC (HSBA.L) (0005.HK) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) venture and financial technology firm R3 said separately on Wednesday that they had created ways of using blockchain technology to simplify trade finance processes. The two banks said ...
Most European Banks Survive Stress Test
August 1st, 2016
European regulators gave most banks a clean bill of health in “stress tests” despite the Continent’s sluggish growth and low interest rates, saying only a clutch of lenders would struggle to ride out a hypothetical severe economic downturn. The European ...
Brexit, banks fueling bitcoin’s resurgence
July 19th, 2016
The bitcoin renaissance seems to be at hand, with investors using the virtual currency to weather turbulent financial markets and banks striking partnerships to explore the system’s underlying technology. Until mid-May, 1 bitcoin fetched on the order of $400 ...
Taiwan banks suspend ATM services after thieves steal $3 million with help of malware
July 13th, 2016
Taiwan’s top eight banks have suspended services on 900 Automated Teller Machines(ATMs) across the island, after thieves made off with NT$70 million (S$2.94 million) in a coordinated heist, apparently with the help of malware. Bank of Taiwan, Chang Hwa Bank, First Bank and ...
One of the worst markets hit in the last two-weeks has been Italian banks
July 6th, 2016
While most of the post-Brexit headlines have centred on the fall in value of sterling and the surge of interest in safe havens such as gold and government bonds, one of the worst markets hit in the last two-weeks has been Italian banks. ...
Swift: 73 banks worldwide joined the global payments innovation initiative
July 1st, 2016
More than 70 banks worldwide collaborate to dramatically improve the cross-border payments experience with greater speed, transparency and end-to-end tracking SWIFT announces today that 73 banks worldwide have now joined its global payments innovation initiative, designed to improve the cross-border ...
Global banks sink in AsiaPac first-half ECM rankings; fees down 33 percent
June 30th, 2016
Global banks tumbled in league table rankings for equity capital market (ECM) deals in Asia Pacific in the first half of 2016, as share offerings outside China that they typically rely on dried up, preliminary Thomson Reuters data showed. ...
Moody’s downgrades outlook on 12 UK banks following UK vote to leave the EU
June 29th, 2016
Moody’s Investors Service has today changed the outlooks on the ratings of 12 UK banks and building societies. Simultaneously, the rating agency has changed the outlook on the UK banking system to negative from stable. The actions follow a ...
