Barclays: FTSE 100 giant’s shares bounce back after volatile trading April 8, 2025 Shares in Barclays rallied on Tuesday morning after a bruising week. The FTSE 100 lender has been caught in the chaos of Trump’s tariff onslaught. The firm was among top banks, including HSBC and Standard Chartered, which led the blue-chip index’s top fallers as markets sunk. Barclays stock was down nearly ten per cent after [...]
HSBC and Standard Chartered shares sink as ‘outsized’ Asian tariffs bite April 7, 2025 Shares in banking giants HSBC and Standard Chartered have taken a significant hit as the global trade war ramps up. HSBC was down nearly three per cent in early trading on Monday. The lender’s losses in the last five days have now topped 15 per cent. Meanwhile, Standard Chartered plunged nearly four per cent, with [...]
HSBC, Natwest and Barclays shares plunge as FTSE 100 downturn deepens April 4, 2025 The FTSE 100’s ‘Big Five’ banks were back in the red on Friday as tariff woes intensified. Shares in Natwest and Barclays slumped nearly ten per cent after China announced retaliatory tariffs against the US, making them the index’s top fallers. HSBC lost over eight per cent. Lloyds and Standard Chartered were not far behind [...]
HSBC and Barclays shares plummet as tariff woes hit FTSE 100 April 3, 2025 Shares in Britain’s top lenders plunged into the red during early trading on Thursday as Trump’s tariff announcement hit London markets. Europe’s biggest lender HSBC was down over five per cent, with Barclays seeing a more than four per cent drop. Standard Chartered was the FTSE 100’s top faller, as the bank’s stock sank over [...]
FTSE 100 lenders pocket record total profit February 21, 2025 Standard Chartered was the last of the FTSE 100’s biggest banks to release its annual results, as analysts praised the strong performance across all of the Big Five. Barclays, HSBC, Natwest, Lloyds and Standard Chartered booked an all-time high of £50.3bn in profit in 2024 and returned £35bn to investors. Russ Mould, investment director at [...]
Standard Chartered shares jump after boosting annual profit February 21, 2025 Standard Chartered shares jumped over four per cent Friday morning after the lender posted its full-year results. It announced an overhaul on executive pay, as the multinational bank missed analysts’ profit estimates for the final quarter. Pre-tax profit fell 30 per cent to $800m (£631m) for the fourth quarter. Analysts had estimated the FTSE 100 [...]
Standard Chartered shares hit ten-year high ahead of results February 20, 2025 Shares in Standard Chartered climbed to a ten-year high as the bank geared up to post its annual results on Friday. City analysts have pencilled in a full-year profit before tax of $6.2bn (£4.9bn), with the bank expected to pocket $983m (£780m) in the fourth quarter, down on the $1.1bn (£872m) posted in the fourth [...]
Wise: Fintech’s customers surge on back of payment deals boom January 16, 2025 Customers at fintech platform Wise have jumped 20 per cent over the last year as the firm continues to make deals with top financial clients. In a quarterly trading update, the money transfer firm revealed that cross border volumes had surged 24 per cent, or 27 per cent on a constant currency basis, to £37.8bn. Meanwhile, [...]
Wise shares bounce on ‘milestone’ Morgan Stanley payments deal December 17, 2024 Shares in Wise have jumped this afternoon after the London-listed fintech firm announced a “milestone” deal to handle foreign exchange payments for Morgan Stanley’s corporate clients. The money transfer firm said Morgan Stanley will become the first major investment bank to offer “high speed cross border” payments through its platform business, which provides payments infrastructure [...]
Standard Chartered mulls sale of three African units November 27, 2024 Standard Chartered is exploring a sale of its wealth management and retail operations in three African countries as the banking giant seeks to free up firepower for its investment plans.