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Challenger bank Shawbrook swings to profit after three years

By business line, the bank grew most in commercial property lending

UK Asset Resolution continues to make good progress

Underlying profit before tax was £1,523m for the 15 months

Bulgaria’s mega banks offered a pleasant surprise to their shareholders

The other half of the financial result will be used to provide lending to new projects.

Access Bank Mulls London Stock Exchange Listing

Shareholders of Access Bank had two months ago approved plans by the bank to raise $1 billion to enhance its operations.

Barclays Bank opens new base on Newcastle Quayside

Barclays said the relocation to the new premises represents one of the biggest real estate deals to have taken place in Newcastle in recent years

Barclays open multi-million pound Newcastle base

The bank has consolidated all its North East regional divisions and training facilities into the St Anns Street premises, in what is the biggest capital investment Barclays has made this year.

Cyprus bank deposits rise, but only with non-EU inflows

Bank deposits in Cyprus rose last month for the first time since December 2012, the central bank said Wednesday, but that was only possible due to money from outside the European Union.

Lloyds Banking Group Confirms Float Of TSB

Taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group is to sell-off 25% of TSB next month

Lloyds Banking Group lines up part-sale of TSB

TSB is set to return to the stock market after a 19-year absence

UniCredit Tiriac Bank profit up 18 pct in Q1

The consolidated net profits on minority interests of UniCredit Tiriac Bank and UniCredit Consumer Financing have advanced by 18 percent over the first quarter of 2014 compared to Q1 of 2013, to 72.1 million lei

UK lenders facing regulatory crackdown as BoE prepares to pop London housing bubble

With Barclays and Santander among those that could see lending curbed

We don’t have a target for closures, says Barclays. Oh yes you do, say villagers as 20 branches are quietly culled

Barclays says: ‘There is no target for bank closures.’ It is a claim the bank is making while embarking on a quiet cull of branches up and down the country.

Dormant bridging lender gets long-awaited buyout

B&C also understands, that Associate Director, Simon Atherton, has left voluntarily as a result

Barclays sounding out buyers for Spanish retail bank: sources

It will park its retail banking operations in Spain, Italy, France and Portugal in a "bad bank", and these will be sold, separated or floated.

Lloyds Banking Group cuts 645 more jobs

Lloyds says that following today’s announcement, it has now made 13,055 of those job cuts.

BRF merger affects Jyske Bank's record expectations of the first six months.

Jyske Bank has announced its expectations of the coming financial statements for the first six months of the year pointing to a record pre-tax profit of DKK 3bn.

KBC reports Good start to the year: close to 400 million euros profit

KBC ended the first quarter of 2014 with a net profit of 397 million euros, compared with a loss of 294 million euros in the last quarter of 2013 and a profit of 520 million euros in the first quarter of 2013.

Intesa Sanpaolo Posts Higher First-Quarter Profit

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA on Thursday reported a surge in first-quarter profit, mainly driven by higher commission income and lower provisions for loans gone sour.

Dexia loss swollen by derivative value adjustments

The bank, 94 percent owned by the Belgian and French states, said its net result from recurring items was a negative 88 million euros, an improvement of 72 million euros from the final quarter of 2013 as funding costs reduced.

National Bank of Greece to Sell Stake in Turkey’s Finansbank

Foreign lenders are snapping up Turkish banking assets, as the effects of a December corruption probe which wiped as much as 6.1 percent off the Turkish banking index dissipate.

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