Barclays’ new chief executive set the course firmly towards retail banking on Tuesday with his first deal since replacing Bob Diamond – the takeover of ING’s British savings and loan business and its 1.5 million customers. Antony Jenkins, previously head …
HSBC’s chief executive apologized on Monday for shameful and embarrassing mistakes made on anti-money laundering controls as the bank set aside $2 billion to cover the cost of U.S. investigations and compensate UK customers for mis-selling. Europe’s biggest bank reported …
Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 15 of the world’s biggest banks on Thursday, lowering credit ratings by one to three notches to reflect the risk of losses they face from volatile capital markets activities; however, some banks criticized the …
A disorderly Greek default would probably leave Italy and Spain needing outside help to stop contagion spreading and cause more than €1 trillion ($1.318 trillion) of damage to the euro zone, the group representing Athens’ bondholders warned. Greek private creditors …
HSBC’s global head of insurance, David Fried, is to step down next month, people familiar with the matter said. Fried will be replaced by Marcelo Teixeira, currently head of insurance in Latin America, one of the people said. Fried has …
Major European banks have limited their losses on Greek bonds to just over €5 billion [$7.2 billion] after negotiating a 21 percent haircut on their debt holdings as part of a rescue plan. France’s BNP Paribas is set to take …
Pressure on Europe’s banks to raise more capital increased on Monday after last week’s stress tests revealed their holdings of European sovereign debt, with likely losses on Greek bonds a growing concern. A health check of 90 European banks unveiled …
Lloyds, the UK’s state-backed bank, which has no affiliation with Lloyd’s of London, took a shock £3.2 billion ($5.3 billion) charge against its profits on Thursday to cover compensation for people sold insurance they would never be able to claim. …
Royal Bank of Scotland’s high bad debt charges in Ireland and a drop in investment banking income overshadowed the bank’s return to profit in the final months of 2010. Stephen Hester, chief executive of the partly nationalised bank, said on …
Goldman Sachs put one headache behind it by settling with U.S. securities regulators, but it looks like a tempting deep pocket for banks and hedge funds that bought subprime-backed mortgage securities. A day after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
