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.
Investment Banking
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.
02/27/2018
Goldman May Sell Its $1.4 Billion New European HQ in London
The exact value of the building will largely be determined by the rent Goldman agrees to pay, the people said.
02/27/2018
Standard Chartered restarts dividends as profit returns
Bank shows improvement in bad loans but return on equity still low
02/26/2018
Deutsche Bank targets €2bn in Frankfurt fund unit float
Deutsche said it would target fund growth of between 3-5% and a fee margin of 30 basis points.
02/26/2018
Royal Bank of Scotland gets proactive on digital as reactive legacy issues are ticked off
There will, inevitably, be more focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as part of the wider digital thinking
02/21/2018
Here’s how much you earn at HSBC’s investment bank vs. Goldman Sachs and others
HSBC had 677 material risk takers in its investment bank last year.
02/21/2018
Deutsche Bank thinks big in City
The office is due to be completed by November 2021.
02/21/2018
Lloyds Bank profits climbed 24% — but it is still feeling the pain from PPI claims
Lloyds Bank profits increased 24% in 2017, with the bank bringing in £5.3 billion profit before tax.
02/21/2018
UK's Metro Bank reports first annual profit
Its loan-to-deposit ratio rose to 82 percent in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31.
02/21/2018
Generali launches AM division
The launch of Generali Investments Partners SGR is part of Generali’s reshuffle plan of its asset management business, seeking to concentrate it in two divisions, this new entity alongside the recently launched Generali Investments Europe.