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  • RBS and Lloyds shares tumble after Deutsche downgrade

    September 5, 2016

    Shares in banks RBS and Lloyds tumbled to the bottom of Britain's blue-chip index today following a downgrade by analysts over at Deutsche Bank. RBS slumped 2.99 per cent to 198.30p per share in mid-afternoon trading, while its peer Lloyds fell 1.92 per cent to 59.79p. Read more: Standard and Poor's attacks negative interest rates as desperate and damaging [...]

  • Barclays raids JP Morgan for new boss of Corporate and Investment Bank

    September 5, 2016

    Barclays has turned to fellow banking giant JP Morgan for the new boss of its Corporate and Investment Bank, it was announced today. Tim Throsby, currently global head of equities at JP Morgan, is expected to join Barclays as president of Barclays Corporate & International and chief executive of Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank in January next year. Throsby, [...]

  • Greek banking shares down after reports suggest Eurozone bailout money might be off the table

    September 5, 2016

    Shares in Greek banks plunged today after it was reported there was no further bailout money heading Greece's way from the Eurozone later this month. Alpha Bank closed down 2.7 per cent at €1.79, while Piraeus Bank is down 2.6 per cent at €0.15. Eurobank Ergasias finished down 3.2 per cent at €0.54, and National Bank of Greece is down 2.4 [...]

  • Now you can open a HSBC account with a selfie

    September 5, 2016

    Forget passwords and pins, but now its not even fingerprints or eye scanning that is replacing these traditional security measures — it's selfies. HSBC will now let its business customers open an account simply using a selfie thanks to facial tracking technology, a type of biometrics which is becoming increasingly popular among firms as a way of making [...]

  • More than a third of corporate debt is now with challenger banks, but London firms yet to be convinced

    September 5, 2016

    Challenger banks are giving the incumbent players a run for their money, as figures out today show over a third (34 per cent) of UK business mortgages and charges are now issued by the smaller, newer lenders.  In particular, 32 per cent of corporate debt is handled by what Avention, which carried out the research, classifies as smaller [...]

  • Italian prosecutors have dropped a probe into lender Monte dei Paschi

    September 1, 2016

    Troubled Italian lender Monte dei Paschi received much needed positive news yesterday after Milan prosecutors filed a request to shelve an investigation into alleged market manipulation and false accounting by its chief exec and former chairman. It emerged last month that Fabrizio Viola and Alessandro Profumo were being investigated in relation to the way the [...]

  • Greek banking shares are on the up as lenders start to trickle back into the black

    September 1, 2016

    Greek banks have had a good day on the stock exchange in Athens, with three major players all closing up. Eurobank Ergasias climbed an impressive 5.8 per cent to close at €0.57. Meanwhile, Piraeus Bank closed up 3.4 per cent at €0.15 and Alpha Bank closed up 3.5 per cent at €1.78. The upward swings follow on from strong sets of [...]

  • London tech startup and Visa partner on blockchain – and want banks’ help

    September 1, 2016

    A London-based blockchain startup has partnered with pay giant Visa and will start testing the technology to make cross-border payments. It's the latest collaboration between an established financial services firm and a startup to experiment with the distributed ledger technology which experts believe could reduce costs and speed up transactions. Read more: These big banks are [...]

  • Read like an investment banker: 11 titles from Goldman Sachs’ back to school book list

    September 1, 2016

    If you've ever wanted to get into the mindset of an investment banker, here's one thing that can help (besides avoiding brown shoes): Goldman Sachs has just published its annual back to school reading list. Following in the footsteps of the likes of Bill Gates, the list is compiled by some of the bank's most senior people [...]

  • PCP Capital Partners alleges Barclays loaned $3bn (£2.3bn) to Qatar to fund purchase of bank’s shares

    September 1, 2016

    An investor is alleging Barclays handed Qatar a $3bn (£2.3bn) loan so it could purchase the bank's shares. PCP Capital Partners has filed documents containing the allegation at the High Court. According to documents seen by Sky News, which first reported the story today, the alleged loan was made in 2008, at a time when the [...]

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