01/21/2014
Barclaycard is overhauling the terms and conditions documents it sends to customers in a bid to make people “want” to read them, one of several changes in the pipeline aimed at improving transparency at the Barclays owned payment services bran
01/20/2014
New British lender Metro Bank has raised 387.5 million pounds to fund its expansion plans by selling stock to institutional and private investors,
01/16/2014
Standard Life has shocked the Sipp market by removing a facility that allowed investors to borrow up to 50 per cent of their fund to buy commercial property in response to “challenging” market conditions.
01/14/2014
Peripheral banks, which were greeted by frenzied investor demand last week, are struggling to breach the €1bn demand mark for their latest deals as buyers buckle under the weight of recent supply.
01/13/2014
Germany's commercial banks urged regulators on Friday to quickly clarify whether they can issue billions of euros in bonds to fulfil new capital requirements aimed at limiting the damage from future financial crises.
01/10/2014
ROYAL Bank of Scotland is preparing to cut thousands more jobs as it looks to reduce an estimated £1 billion of costs after suffering crippling losses.
01/09/2014
A former permanent secretary to the Treasury and current chairman of Channel 4, Lord Burns has enjoyed a string of high profile roles since quitting the public sector including a stint as chairman of Marks & Spencer.
01/07/2014
The deal was required after it emerged the bank faced a £1.5bn black hole. In addition to the bank's financial problems, it was hit by scandal when Mr Flowers was arrested for alleged drugs offences.
01/06/2014
Foreign banks which have units in Hungary include Austria's Raiffeisen and Erste, Italian lender Intesa Sanpaolo and Unicredit, Belgium's KBC , German bank Bayern LB, Citi and the banking arm of General Electric.
01/06/2014
HSBC has lost more customers since the introduction of the UK’s account switching service than any other major retail bank
01/04/2014
The head of an Austrian task force handling ailing Hypo Alpe Adria wants the government to decide in the first quarter on what kind of "bad bank" could absorb toxic assets from the nationalised lender.
12/31/2013
Bank chief executive awarded the shares as part of previously agreed recruitment package
12/28/2013
We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites
12/24/2013
However, it has now confirmed it will also withdraw services for direct commercial clients.
12/16/2013
Leading think tank says separating investment and retail banking will lead to higher costs on the high street
12/16/2013
UniCredit has been named Financial Advisor of the year in Italy and Central and Eastern Europe at the Financial Times and Mergermarket annual European M&A Awards yesterday.
12/16/2013
The company is to be run by 30-year industry veteran Inga Beale from January. Currently the chief executive of Canopius, a Lloyd's managing agent thought to be the subject of a takeover bid, Beale will replace Richard Ward who surprised the industry
12/11/2013
The management of Italy's Monte dei Paschi, which is trying to avoid state ownership, had hoped to carry out the cash call already in January.
12/09/2013
The Financial Times on Monday said HSBC was considering selling 30 percent of its UK arm.
12/08/2013
The British government said in October that it would accelerate the process of splitting up any bank that tries to circumvent new rules designed to ringfence their retail operations from riskier investment banking activities.