Challenger bank Shawbrook’s float succeeds as it covers books March 24, 2015 SHAWBROOK Bank has covered the books in its stock market flotation, successfully attracting enough institutional investors into its shares, City A.M. understands. The challenger is raising £90m in new funds, and is selling a 25 per cent stake, plus an over-allotment option. It follows stock market debuts from Aldermore earlier this month, and from Virgin [...]
TSB share price opens higher as Lloyds accepts £1.7bn takeover offer from Banco de Sabadell March 20, 2015 Shares in TSB opened 1.6 per cent higher at 332.47p this morning after its majority owner, Lloyds, have accepted a £1.7bn takeover offer from Spanish rival Banco de Sabadell. Shares in the challenger bank leapt 27 per cent last week, after TSB issued an announcement suggesting it was "willing to recommend" Sabadell's 340p-per-share offer – [...]
OneSavings share price soars as challenger bank doubles profits after IPO March 17, 2015 Challenger bank OneSavings more than doubled its profits last year, yesterday reporting strong buy-to-let and small business lending. Statutory pre-tax profits came in at £63.7m for 2014, up from £31.4m in 2013. That includes the £7.4m OneSavings spent on its stock market flotation last summer. The bank is made up of several different units [...]
Aldermore Group chairman Glyn Jones steps down from Direct Line board March 16, 2015 Aldermore Group chairman Glyn Jones is stepping down from the board of Direct Line, after the challenger bank's IPO last week. Jones, who is currently a senior independent director at the insurance group, is also chairman of Aspen Insurance Holdings, which is listed in New York. As he is now chairman of two listed [...]
Atom Bank’s chief Mark Mullen on using the Post Office to launch challengers March 16, 2015 Digital banking sounds super-cool. You can manage your money entirely on a smartphone and, if you choose a new challenger, stick it to the big banks at the same time. There is one big problem – where do you pay in cash? Atom Bank’s boss thinks shared hubs like the Post Office could be the [...]
Lloyds to bank £1.5bn if TSB sale to Banco Sabadell goes ahead March 12, 2015 Lloyds is set to receive a final total of £1.5bn for TSB if the Banco Sabadell sale goes ahead – twice the £750m for which it had previously agreed to sell the lender to the Co-op Bank. The giant bank was forced to sell off TSB under the terms of its 2008 bailout. The [...]
TSB share price leaps 27 per cent as Lloyds backs £1.7bn takeover talks with Spanish bank Sabadell March 12, 2015 Lloyds appeared to give its blessing to an offer by Spanish Banco de Sabadell for challenger bank TSB this morning, in which it has a 50 per cent stake. TSB said it had been offered 340p in cash per share, about a 30 per cent premium on last night's closing price, valuing the lender at [...]
Challenger bank Shawbrook jumps on IPO bandwagon March 12, 2015 Shawbrook has become the latest challenger bank to announce plans to list on the London Stock Exchange, with plans to raise about £90m. The announcement of its intention to float follows an impressive showing by rival Aldermore earlier this week, whose shares closed 12 per cent higher on its first day of trading. Its shares [...]
Aldermore share price jumps on its first day of trading March 10, 2015 Shares in Aldermore rose 10 per cent to 212p as its first day of conditional trading began on the London Stock Exchange this morning. The challenger bank priced its offering of 34.8 per cent of issued share capital at 192p per share, near the top of its 155p-195p range. The price gave it a market [...]
Lord Adair Turner finds something useful to do March 9, 2015 The man who described some banking as socially useless gets a new job – with a bank. It is not unfair to say that Lord Adair Turner has not always been a friend to banks. Turner was a non-executive director at Standard Chartered in the boom years before the crash, and an executive at Merrill [...]