09/30/2013
David Stewart, one half of the Eurhythmics, and former Credit Suisse Europe, Middle East and Africa chairman/CEO Michael Philipp have revealed their plans to launch a creative-focused banking services company, to be called First Artist Bank.
09/29/2013
Bank Zachodni WBK, the Polish arm of Banco Santander, wants to continue taking an active role in the consolidation of Poland's financial sector after completing the purchase of rival Kredyt Bank
09/28/2013
The business will eventually be sold as a stand-alone public company in 2015 at the earlies
09/28/2013
It is not about taking something from somebody
09/27/2013
New Landsbanki, the state-owned Icelandic bank forged in the midst of the 2008 Icesave scandal, has asked for more time to repay a £1.5bn bond that is threatening to destabilise Iceland's recovering economy.
09/25/2013
The Austrian banking group said on Thursday the move would cut its capital adequacy ratio by 0.2 percentage points but save 25 million euros a year from 2017
09/23/2013
Italy's biggest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo , is in the midst of a management struggle between its chief executive and a board member backed by an important shareholder
09/20/2013
The financial crisis has generally acted like weedkiller for most investment banks
09/18/2013
Hungary's banks, most of which are foreign-owned, have suffered losses in the past two years after the government imposed a big windfall tax on the sector in 2010 and a new tax on financial transactions this year.
09/09/2013
The unnamed pensioner turned up at her local BNP-Paribas branch in Rennes
09/09/2013
Barclays Plc (BARC) Chief Executive Officer Antony Jenkins said he expects to spend about 1.4 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) by 2015
09/08/2013
We continuously look at the format that we have. I want to look at locations and the functionality on offer for the customers.
09/08/2013
TSB has suffered an embarrassing IT failure that left some of its millions of customers unable to access accounts online
09/03/2013
Unicredit Chief Executive Federico Ghizzoni said the Italian lender would not bid for German competitor Commerzbank
09/01/2013
A small but steady number of people, estimated to be in the low thousands each year, are “sacked” by their banks in precisely this way.
09/01/2013
Raiffeisen Bank Romania’s total investments amounted to EUR 11 million in the first half of the year.
08/28/2013
The Co-operative Bank has reported losses of £709m for the first half of the year as it presses ahead with controversial plans to plug its £1.5bn capital shortfall.
08/28/2013
The German government became Commerzbank’s largest shareholder when a 2009 bailout gave Berlin a 17% stake for about EUR18.2bn.
08/24/2013
Svenska Handelsbanken is not just a bank. To its admirers it is an entirely different way of doing business.
08/21/2013
The bank called a global review of its creative and media accounts, which were held by JWT and Mindshare respectively, in October last year.