03/14/2014
Nick Wright, the head of equities for Asia Pacific at Barclays, is retiring amid growing rumours that the bank is looking at paring down the company and restructuring roles and units to become more profitable.
03/14/2014
Barclays is reviewing the size and shape of its investment bank, in a review that is expected to result in it shrinking and focusing on its most profitable areas
03/13/2014
The bull markets are raging, IPOs are surging and investors are pinning their hopes on the FTSE breaking through the 7,000 barrier for the first time this year.
03/13/2014
A decline in price swings and margins will contribute to a 19 percent contraction in revenue from trading fixed-income, currencies and commoditie
03/11/2014
The chairman of the UK Green Investment Bank has said the government-owned bank should eventually be owned by the private sector.
03/07/2014
BNP Paribas SA and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch have joined the swelling ranks of currencies-dealing banks to have suspended staff as part of the global probe into the wholesale foreign-exchange market
03/06/2014
BNP Paribas is in top position in terms of Corporate Banking, Cash Management, Debt Capital Markets and Trade Finance, according to surveys carried out by Greenwich Associates.
03/06/2014
The Financial Times reports that some Barclays shareholders are calling for a management shake-up at the top of its investment banking division.
03/05/2014
BNY Mellon CSD SA/NV, has been accepted as a recognised system for settling transactions in securities listed on the two markets operated by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
03/05/2014
Societe Generale aims to leverage its experience in structured and transport finance to grow its business in the Gulf
03/04/2014
Standard Chartered bank is seeking to sell about six units in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday citing people familiar with the matter.
03/02/2014
The business has been put up for sale by Investec, which paid £283m for Kensington in July 2007
02/28/2014
The cooperatively owned bank paid 774 million euros to British, U.S. and Dutch regulators after 30 staff were found to have been involved in "inappropriate conduct"
02/28/2014
Most London-based bankers working on mergers and acquisitions and advising companies on deals received higher bonuses in 2014, with junior bankers seeing payouts rise sharply
02/27/2014
New regulations and earnings losses is forcing major changes inside the investment banking giant.
02/26/2014
Britain's central bank set lighter conditions on Wednesday for branches of Chinese and other non-European investment banks as part of efforts to bolster London's role as a financial centre.
02/24/2014
BNP Paribas Investment Partners is among a new breed of managers seeking to break into the UK fiduciary market as a glut of mandates falls due.
02/17/2014
Lloyds Banking Group Plc is in talks with Britain’s Prudential Regulation Authority over “ringfencing” rules in an attempt to save its investment banking functions
02/14/2014
Since the credit crunch, investment banks have been berated by politicians, regulators and the media.
02/13/2014
Deutsche Bank Managed Fund Nears Deal to Sell Housing Unit
A Deutsche Bank AG managed fund has confirmed it will sell a housing portfolio valued at 1 billion euro to Austria's Immofinanz AG, which will then float the unit on Frankfurt's stock market by end-March