03/21/2018
Bank of Russia to trim its key rate in March - Rabobank
With inflation at a record low and unlikely to accelerate sharply in the coming months
Investment Banking
03/20/2018
SocGen Earmarks €1B To Handle US Probes Into Libor, Libya
The French bank said in a regulatory statement that it earmarked the funds to deal with investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
03/18/2018
Berenberg unfazed by new European rules on equity research
German private bank boasts one of the largest equity research operations
03/16/2018
Barclays investors give CEO Staley year to fix investment bank
Staley, feted for his achievements at U.S. powerhouse JPMorgan <JPM.N>, pledged to revive Barclays' tired investment banking franchise as soon as he joined the bank in 2015, ending years of under-investment in the wake of the financial crisis.
03/16/2018
Nordea confirms re-location to Finland
The stability, he estimated, will only be increased by the 55-billion-euro common fiscal backstop to be established within the European Union by 2023 and by the banking union advocated by Finland.
03/14/2018
SocGen in exclusive talks to buy Commerzbank's EMC unit: Handelsblatt
The EMC unit includes Commerzbank’s exchange traded funds portfolio, equity derivatives and other market making businesses.
03/13/2018
French bank Natixis buying into three M&A boutiques, bolsters China presence
Natixis plans to buy a 51 percent stake in Fenchurch, which is focused on corporate finance advisory to financial services companies in Britain.
03/13/2018
Barclays pays top managers over £20m in shares
Awards mostly to compensate several senior executives for payouts forfeited on leaving JPMorgan Chase
03/12/2018
Nomura said to appoint Brexit czar in Tokyo to handle move
This refers to a situation in which several countries borrow from just a few big international banks, raising the risk that losses in one country encourage the banks to withdraw from other borrower countries as well.
03/12/2018
Deutsche float plan for fund management arm with chequered UK record
The German lender's chief executive has unveiled plans to sell off a chunk of the division, which has a colourful City record.
03/11/2018
Funding Circle Picks Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley for IPO
U.K. online lender’s share sale may spur IPOs from rivals
03/08/2018
Atom Bank in £149m capital raising
Spanish lender BBVA lifts stake in UK challenger to almost 40%
03/08/2018
Wall Street Banks Dominate Amid M&A Boom Gripping Nordic Region
Goldman ranks second when it comes to Nordic corporate deals
03/07/2018
FirstRand to enter transactional banking in the UK
Freshly armed with a UK banking licence, FirstRand will launch transactional banking through Aldermore, chiefly to attract more deposits.
03/07/2018
Goldman puts some London staff on notice for German move by June
It has informed members of its London-based derivatives and debt capital markets teams working on German accounts that their activities will be relocated to its base in Frankfurt and to make the necessary preparations to move to those offices by end-June,
03/06/2018
UBS Named Europe’s Top Corporate Access Provider
The Swiss bank won top honors from money managers in Institutional Investor’s annual ranking of the sell-side firms connecting investors with European executives.
03/04/2018
Investment banks face fury over gender pay gap
Under new legislation, organisations with more than 250 employees have to disclose the gap between the average earnings and bonuses of male and female staff before a deadline of April 4.
03/01/2018
FM: Scottish National Investment Bank plans to ‘move at pace’
Mr Higgins, Tesco Bank’s chief executive, said: “There is an incontrovertible case for creating the Scottish National Investment Bank."
02/28/2018
Build it and the private infrastructure funding will come
Historically, this development bank has been one of the largest investors in projects in the UK, providing billions in funding for large-scale transport, social housing, energy and health sector schemes.
02/28/2018
Bank by bank, these are the new hiring priorities for 2018
In reality, it’s also likely to be broader than this: banks don’t always divulge their intentions – just look at UBS’s quiet recruitment for its fixed income sales business in 2017.