12/29/2015
Portuguese bank BPI has delivered draft terms of a project to hive off operations in Africa to the Commercial Register, the bank said in a statement issued Monday through the Portuguese Securities and Exchange Commission (CMVM).
12/28/2015
Nine High Street banks and building societies in the UK are to launch basic bank accounts which will not charge a fee for missed payments.
12/28/2015
Analysts told the newspaper Clydesdale could struggle to compete effectively with the big banks, because it would have to tempt customers away from the giants with lower prices
12/28/2015
This announcement is being made pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135 under the Securities Act of 1933.
12/27/2015
Many account holders now have to travel several miles to use counter services as online and mobile banking becomes more widespread
12/26/2015
The bank plans to go it alone in February, and chief exec David Duffy says its critics have failed to realise just how fast it is growing
12/24/2015
Its chairman, Anthony Thompson, headed up the launch of London’s Metro Bank, the UK’s first new bank in at least 25 years.
12/22/2015
Erste announced in September that it was buying the Hungarian retail business of Citibank.
12/18/2015
An increased focus on encouraging competition is also opening the door for alternative and ‘disrupter’ brands
12/18/2015
The original plan was for BRC to be bailed out with funds from Italy’s Deposit Guarantee Insurance Fund, thus ensuring that retail bondholders would not have to take losses.
12/17/2015
For the last year, Swedbank has managed to deflect 80 percent of transactional calls with the help of Nuance's virtual assistant platform, Nina.
12/16/2015
RBS’s India-based assets comprise a balance sheet of $2.8 billion
12/15/2015
The company operates under the Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank brands in Britain and is one of Britain’s largest midsize banks.
12/15/2015
New digital bank planned by UK private equity firm
It is understood that the new entity has a code name ‘Abacus’.
12/15/2015
A sale of Williams & Glyn would follow the March disposal of TSB Banking Group Plc, a former Lloyds Banking Group Plc unit, to Spain’s Banco de Sabadell SA for 1.7 billion pounds.
12/13/2015
The fund may be worth 100 million euros and cover about a third of the savers’ losses
12/10/2015
This will be booked in the fourth quarter of 2015
12/10/2015
Ikano Bank has unveiled a three-year fixed-rate account offering savers 2.55 per cent through its website.
12/06/2015
Jeremy Masding has done a decent job righting the ship at Permo
12/06/2015
The big institutions plan to lend an extra £700m directly to mid-sized firms next year, harnessing pension funds and other long-term savings to finance business growth