Banks’ PPI bill set to increase July 28, 2013 BARCLAYS is expected to set aside more money tomorrow to pay compensation to customers who were missold payment protection insurance and interest rate swaps. The bank will set aside at least another £150m to repay small firms who were missold swaps, taking the total compensation bill for those products to more than £1bn, according to [...]
London Report: UK’s corporate calendar packed in results season July 28, 2013 THE CORPORATE calendar is packed this week, as businesses including ITV, BP, Lloyds, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland update the market amid a swathe of other results. The week begins with figures from Fidessa Group, Hammerson, InterContinental Hotels Group, Intertek Group, JKX Oil & Gas, Keller Group, Senior, Vernalis, Reckitt Benckiser Group, National Grid, [...]
Any Other Business – 29/07 July 28, 2013 ■ While many City fitties were pounding the streets of the capital for the London Triathlon this weekend, a smaller group donned trainers and Speedos for a less competitive race. Barclays banker Jim Westropp and friends from BNP Paribas, Partners Capital and CBRE ran six miles around town dressed only in brightly coloured pairs of [...]
UBS $885m settlement with US regulators strikes fear into European banks July 26, 2013 Swiss bank UBS will pay $885m (£575m) in a settlement with US regulators over allegations it misrepresented mortage-backed bonds during the housing bubble, it was announced today. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees state-sponsored housing enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said that UBS would pay $415m to Fannie May and $470m to [...]
City fears UK’s growth will be unsustainable July 25, 2013 THE UK economy grew by 0.6 per cent in the second quarter, doubling its pace of growth and giving a boost to George Osborne, who hopes he is at last escaping the stagnation that has dogged the coalition since it took office in 2010. Services, manufacturing and construction all grew in the three-month period, a [...]
City Moves for 26 July 2013 | Who’s switching jobs July 25, 2013 Barclays The bank has announced the appointment of Irene McDermott Brown as group human resources director. McDermott Brown joined Barclays in 2011 from BP. Prior to that, she held senior roles at Cable & Wireless, and led her own consultancy company. Pramerica Investment Management The investment management company has hired Ousmene Mandeng as managing director in [...]
Serious Fraud Office hopes to make more Libor charges in Autumn July 25, 2013 The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it is hoping to make more charges against individuals for manipulation the Libor interbank lending rate this Autumn and is not afraid of legal barriers to convicting corporations. Speaking to Reuters, a spokesperson for the SFO said: We will go where the evidence takes us, but we [...]
Barclays ready for deal to plug balance sheet July 24, 2013 BARCLAYS is close to announcing an agreement with regulators to strengthen its balance sheet in order to meet new industry standards. Last month the Bank of England’s prudential regulatory authority (PRA) published a review of lenders’ capital positions and found Barclays did not meet the required three per cent leverage ratio by 0.5 percentage points. [...]
City Moves for 25 July 2013 | Who’s switching jobs July 24, 2013 bfinance The consultancy has announced the appointment of Roubesh Adaya as a senior associate in its research team. He will be covering research into fixed income asset investments, and joins from BNP Paribas Asset Management. Barclays Vivian Chan has joined the bank as regional head of north Asia in its wealth and investment management division. Chan [...]
Spurs sweating as Vertonghen needs ankle scan July 24, 2013 TOTTENHAM manager Andre Villas-Boas fears an ankle injury could rule out defender Jan Vertonghen for the first game of the Premier League season at Crystal Palace on 18 August. The versatile Belgian landed awkwardly on a sodden pitch minutes after coming on as a substitute in Spurs’ 3-1 defeat to Sunderland in the Barclays Asia [...]