04/28/2017
RBS beats forecasts with swing to £259m profit
The boost in income and cost reduction helped RBS post a pre-tax adjusted operating profit of £1.4bn in the quarter, up from £440m in the same period a year ago.
Retail Banking
04/27/2017
Ethical bank Triodos opens registrations for first UK current account
Its current accounts do not pay any interest and cost £3 per month to run.
04/27/2017
Bank of Valletta posts interim €74 million pre-tax profit
Bank of Valletta interim profits up 8% with 24% increase in interim dividend
04/26/2017
Metro Bank posts record results as new deposits crack £1bn in three months to March
The bank became the first new UK retail lender in more than a century when it opened in 2010. Deposits rose 13% quarter-on-quarter in the three months to the end of March
04/26/2017
Handelsbanken’s Interim Report January – March 2017
New PD models were approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority
04/26/2017
Bank of Ireland calls in headhunter Korn Ferry for CEO job
Mr Boucher's total remuneration last year was €958,000
04/26/2017
Lloyds and Queen's bank Coutts rack up customer complaints
The biggest banks dominated the rankings because of their size.
04/26/2017
How Royal Bank of Scotland shares could double
The really big deal looks like closure above 260p, the share certainly looking capable of producing such a miracle anytime soon.
04/25/2017
Credit Agricole in talks to buy three Italian savings banks
The deal currently being weighed up meets these stringent strategic guidelines.
04/25/2017
Virgin Money remains 'strong' in first quarter trading
Virgin Money also noted its receipt of the “Best Mortgage Lender” accolade at the Mortgage Strategy awards
04/25/2017
Gulf International Bank UK Ltd Increases Position in SEI Investments Company
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in SEIC.
04/24/2017
BNP Paribas targets over €2 billion sec services revenue by 2020
BNP Paribas is aiming for a five per cent increase in its securities services figures by the year 2020.
04/24/2017
Santander unveils buy-to-let remortgage range
We are very pleased to now introduce some market leading remortgage rates to further support this important sector of the market.
04/23/2017
UK government recovers the £20.3bn spent bailing out Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds has cleaned up its act fastest since the financial crisis.
04/21/2017
UniCredit says Aabar is only investor with more than 5 pct
Abu Dhabi's investment fund Aabar has 5.038 percent stake
04/21/2017
Lloyds and RBS results to further highlight differing fortunes
But shares in the troubled lender are now trading at less than half that price.
04/21/2017
Investor confidence in UK firms slides
This could suggest that investors remain relatively upbeat, especially when looking at opportunities around the world.
04/20/2017
Competition Begins To Boil For Challenger Banks
A new report by Burnmark is looking to make sense of an ever-crowding challenger bank ecosystem.
04/20/2017
Orange bank to go online across France on July 6
Orange said on Thursday customers would be able to use an instant, secure mobile payment service
04/19/2017
Lloyds £100m proposal doesn’t begin to cover HBOS fraud
Small business owners who lost livelihoods say scheme is poorly conceived