08/28/2012
The transaction involves assigning the stake held by the Piedmont-based institution in the share capital of Banca d’Italia in favour of current Biverbanca shareholders before the sale to CR Asti takes effect.
08/28/2012
Balance sheet total increased 4.8 per cent to € 157.2 billion
08/27/2012
The rise is on top of a big jump in starting salaries at the banks last year as the “social stigma” of working for a bank rises again.
08/27/2012
Credit Agricole had said on August 9 it was assessing offers from Greek banks for Emporiki.
08/27/2012
Net commission income was relatively stable with a decrease of 10 per cent due to a downturn in transaction-based revenues, while net interest income fell by 19 per cent year-on-year.
08/26/2012
Of the 462 investment bankers that were asked, 31 per cent said they would most like to work in Singapore. By comparison, only a fifth preferred New York and only 19 per cent opted in favour of London.
08/21/2012
The game plan won’t work again as rising capital requirements and declining business alter the investment-banking landscape, investors and analysts say.
08/16/2012
Loan impairments surged 35 percent to 3.9 billion rand.
08/16/2012
That’s the same rung TD occupied in the magazine’s last update in the spring.
08/15/2012
Such figures sound large, but they are dwarfed by the scale of the deleveraging process going on in Europe.
08/15/2012
The survey of senior managers found 70 per cent expect the volume of non-performing loans to rise this year, and 75 per cent expect to sell bad assets next year.
08/15/2012
The representative office of the bank in London was opened in 1997 to maintain business relationships with commercial banks, international financial institutions and government authorities.
08/15/2012
Santander is hoping to raise as much as $4 billion in the offering, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday.
08/14/2012
Senior members of the left-leaning Lib Dems want to re-examine whether banks' retail operations should be allowed to market complex derivative products, in light of the recent Libor rate-rigging scandal.
08/14/2012
In recent months it has become clear that many bankers misreported rates, either to benefit trading positions or provide a false picture of stability to regulators, undercutting the market function Libor was meant to perform.
08/13/2012
No wonder small businesses can't get credit when the UK is the only G8 member not to have a body dealing with such finance
08/13/2012
Standard Chartered was allowed to buy the whole of Credit Agricole Yatirim Bankasi Turk AS from its Montrouge, France- based parent, the Ankara-based regulator said on its website today.
08/12/2012
Perry Jones, a London-based spokesman for Barclays, declined to comment when contacted by Bloomberg News today.
08/09/2012
The developments came as the New York company tried to unwind a series of problematic positions taken by a trader in the bank's Chief Investment Office nicknamed the "London Whale" for his outsize market bets.
08/08/2012
ING is also preparing to list its European and U.S. insurance units on stock markets as part of the restructuring that will break apart its once fashionable bancassurer business model.