06/19/2015
ECB hands €74bn to banks as lending shows upturn
Since March, the ECB has offered the funds at the main refinancing rate of 0.05%, abolishing the premium of 10 basis points it charged in the first two rounds
06/19/2015
Since March, the ECB has offered the funds at the main refinancing rate of 0.05%, abolishing the premium of 10 basis points it charged in the first two rounds
06/19/2015
Icelandic lender Islandsbanki could be sold to investors from the Middle East and China within weeks, daily newspaper Visir reported on Friday, quoting the head of the board responsible for winding up failed bank Glitnir, from which Islandsbanki was creat
06/19/2015
CaixaBank SA, Spain’s third-largest lender, withdrew its offer for Banco BPI SA after the Portuguese company’s shareholders rejected a key condition.
06/18/2015
Banks are in danger of “just becoming the plumbing” if they don’t work out their new role in the financial eco-system as the storm of payment innovations continues to rain down on the industry, according to Lloyds Bank head of digital tr
06/18/2015
The Vienna-based bank is seeking to shrink its Eastern European network but remains heavily dependent on Russia and mired in Ukraine.
06/17/2015
This will provide an improved, convenient and consistent banking experience for Nationwide customers
06/16/2015
Lloyds is working on a system to let customers pay in cheques through their mobile banking apps
06/16/2015
New measures from the regulatory end will be very scarce in the next years
06/16/2015
A 13 billion pound mortgage portfolio put up for sale by the "bad bank" charged with winding down the assets of two failed British lenders has lured interest from several possible bidders, the group's boss said on Tuesday.
06/16/2015
The Serbian unit of Hungary’s OTP Bank signed an agreement to buy 100% of Serbian peer Findomestic Banka from its Italian owner, OTP announced on Friday.
06/15/2015
A new book by veteran financial journalist Ivan Fallon charts the course of Lloyds Bank through the financial crisis – bringing together for the first time the accounts of all the big players in the drama.
06/15/2015
Monte Paschi shares fell as much as 4 percent and were 3.1 percent lower at 1.738 euros
06/12/2015
The boss of Virgin Money has hit out against the "alpha maleness of banking" that demands people "win at all costs".
06/12/2015
RBS is investing hundreds of millions of pounds in data projects, so that it can change the bank’s relationship with the customer. Make it more personal.
06/11/2015
MILLIONS of Barclays bank account customers will be barred from using Apple's contactless payment system when it launches in the UK next month.
06/11/2015
HSBC Holdings Plc this week became the third foreign retail bank to abandon or scale back in Brazil in the past two years
06/10/2015
The Council has set a maximum amount of EUR 1.1 billion for the conversion into forints of the loans
06/05/2015
National Australia Bank Ltd., the nation’s fourth-largest lender by market value, plans to seek about 800 million pounds ($1.2 billion) in an initial public offering of its British unit as early as September
06/05/2015
Barclays has replaced the "good old sales pitch" with a clear process for how to push out editorial content
06/04/2015
The UK taxpayer holds an 81 per cent stake in RBS after a series of capital injections amounting to £45bn.