01/16/2012
Major lender could lose $5 billion from PIIGS exposure: report
Dimon said the bank was exposed to the five countries (PIIGS) to the tune of around $15 billion.
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01/16/2012
Eurozone's fate hangs on whether French humiliation turns to anger
And after Friday's mass downgrade, which underscored the fact that investors believe governments right across the 17-member single currency area will be on the hook if the crisis deteriorates, Greece's eurozone partners may no longer be in any m
01/16/2012
Greece gets closer to brink of bankruptcy
Greece’s finance minister Evangelos Venizelos said talks would resume on Wednesday to “bridge differences” but insiders remained sceptical that a deal could be stitched at such a late stage.
01/16/2012
The world according to Goldman Sachs
Ahead of the Davos summit, Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn talks to The Sunday Telegraph about the outlook for Europe, the US economy and whether 2012 holds any rays of hope.
01/16/2012
BNP sells stake in Niger bank
The sale will enable Coris Bank International, a privately held Burkinabe bank, to become the largest shareholder in BIA-Niger, the West African nation's oldest financial institution, which began operations in 1944.
01/16/2012
Royal Bank of Scotland to sell Middle East M&A business
Royal Bank of Scotland is in talks to sell its mergers and acquisitions business in the Middle East and cut some jobs as part of a global restructuring at the U.K. bank, its regional head said on Monday.
01/12/2012
Barings to merge away Harte’s AR Global Bond trust
Dagmar Dvorak, co-manager of the Global Bond trust, has assumed responsibility for the fund during the consultation period.
01/12/2012
SocGen investment bank cuts signal more pain ahead
The news that France's second-biggest lender is eyeing a "significant" fall in investment banking revenue for 2012 and has decided to exit or deeply cut several businesses is the latest dollop of pain for investment banks worldwide after bu
01/12/2012
German bailout veteran adds to Merkel’s government alumni at ECB
A crisis troubleshooter for Merkel since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008, Asmussen brings his experience in bailout politics to the European Central Bank.
01/11/2012
Regulation fears kill off top lender's plans for JV
Arbuthnot announced plans in July for a JV through Secure Trust Bank (STB), its listed subsidiary in which it retains a 75 per cent stake, as well as an unnamed partner.
01/11/2012
Banks being made riskier and Brits poorer, warns UBS
Pointing to bonds sold by Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group since the start of the year, the analysts said both banks had to pay a very high price to access the debt markets.
01/11/2012
Emerging markets growth to weaken, says UBS
The Swiss investment bank still expects these countries to outperform industrialised nations but at a slower annualized real growth rate of 5% or less in the first half of 2012, compared with 7-8% at its peak and 5.5% last year, thanks to a moderation in
01/09/2012
Major French bank sees 2011 profit drop despite profitable 4th quarter
Dividends and bonuses for 2011 will also be lower, he added.
01/09/2012
RBS reportedly to merge investment banking, transactions
RBS spokesman Michael Strachan declined to comment on the report when Bloomberg called him today.
01/09/2012
Revenues up but profits down at KPMG
Combined turnover increased 13% to €4.5bn (£3.7bn) for the year ended 30 September, compared to €4bn in 2010.
01/06/2012
Banks brace for backlash as bonus season arrives
But announcements of more than 125,000 job cuts last year mean bankers will find it harder to use their traditional excuse that they need to pay out big bonuses to retain top talent.
01/06/2012
Hoare Govett Executives May Team Up With Oriel for RBS Buyout
A deal would allow RBS to save the costs of firing the unit’s 30 or so employees, said the people, who declined to be identified because the talks are private.
01/05/2012
RBS Said to Hire Lazard to Advise on Sale of Hoare Govett Unit
Officials at Lazard and Edinburgh-based RBS declined to comment.
01/05/2012
RBS Woos Investment Bank Buyers
People close to RBS tell me it has appointed Lazard, the investment bank, in recent days to handle an auction of swathes of its global banking and markets (GBM) division.
01/05/2012
RBS plan puts 10,000 jobs at risk
The job cuts – combined with an expected £1bn-2bn of restructuring costs – are the worst-case scenario in plans being considered by Stephen Hester, RBS’s chief executive, who finally accepted in November that the investment bank th