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.
08/21/2013
Against the backdrop of a still challenging environment, we are not dissatisfied with our results
08/21/2013
Parent company HSBC is willing to inject capital to help build the business, although a capital increase for the German unit HSBC Trinkaus is not necessary for now, Schmitz said.
08/21/2013
Rabobank expects that certain regulators and authorities will conclude their investigations this year
08/20/2013
Bangalore-based public sector lender Canara Bank plans to expand its overseas branch network during the current fiscal