Italy’s banking crisis deepens as failed capital offering sends stocks plunging across the industry May 2, 2016 The Italian banking sector took yet another blow over the weekend as one of its lenders failed to raise extra capital from shareholders causing stocks to plunge on Monday morning. Private sector investors agreed to buy just 7.7 per cent of the €1.5bn (£1.18bn) capital offering from Banca Popolare di Vicenza, which had been told by the European Central [...]
Credit Suisse just waved away the shareholder spring – but investors are still angry April 29, 2016 It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times at Credit Suisse's annual general meeting (AGM), as shareholders waved through controversial pay deals for its top team despite protests – and comfort ate frankfurters. At a meeting at which security was called as an angry shareholder disrupted proceedings, votes on directors' and executives' pay [...]
Bank of England warns UK’s largest lenders they will pay the price for ending “too big to fail” April 29, 2016 The Bank of England has told the UK's largest lenders that ending the era of "too big to fail" will make it more expensive for them to do business. There will "inevitably be higher costs" for banks as a result of the new regulatory requirements being placed upon them, Jon Cunliffe, deputy governor for financial [...]
Credit Suisse warns shareholders to brace themselves for a bumpy 2016 April 29, 2016 The chief executive of Credit Suisse has said the bank’s performance has been “encouraging” after it posted a pre-tax loss of 2.4bn swiss francs (£1.6bn) in 2015, but warned that 2016 will be a “challenging" year. Tidjane Thiam, who moved to Credit Suisse last year, told shareholders at the group’s annual general meeting (AGM) today that he expects [...]
Barclays thanks its shareholders for their patience and apologises for any inconvenience this turnaround period may have caused April 28, 2016 Barclays has today thanked its shareholders for being patient as the bank undergoes a turnaround period. In a statement ahead of the bank's AGM, chairman John McFarlane acknowledged that the last few years had been an "extremely difficult time for shareholders", and accepted that decision to slash the dividends for 2016 and 2017 last month would have hardly [...]
RBS warns of “significant risk” that it will not make the Williams & Glyn disposal deadline, share price drops April 28, 2016 Royal Bank of Scotland, which remains 73 per cent government owned, has warned there is a significant risk it will fail to meet a deadline to dispose of challenger bank Williams & Glyn. The bank has warned the costs are likely to be "significantly greater than previously estimated." Shares in the bank instantly fell by over five per cent [...]
Profits drop six per cent at Lloyds Banking Group, beating analysts’ expectations April 28, 2016 Shares in Lloyds Banking Group plummeted by as much as four per cent this morning after the bank posted a six per cent drop in profits during the first quarter, beating analysts' expectations, but disappointing investors. Lloyds has since recovered some of the ground, with shares down two per cent by mid-morning, but the fall will still [...]
Profit at Spanish banking giant Santander drops five per cent in the first quarter on currency headwinds April 27, 2016 The eurozone's largest bank and the UK challenger Banco Santander, has posted a 4.9 per cent fall in first-quarter net profit from a year earlier. Santander reported net profit of €1.63bn (£1.84bn), beating a Reuters analyst poll of a 12.5 per cent decline. The drop was put down to currency headwinds as a fall in the value of the Brazilian [...]
These are the UK’s most-hated banks April 27, 2016 Banker-bashing may have become something of a national sport in recent years – but what about bank-bashing? A new survey has revealed UK banking customers' most-hated lenders. The so-called Big Four make up the top of the list, with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) scoring just 49.3 on a reputation scale of 0-100, while Lloyds follows, [...]
AnaCap in talks to buy Barclays’ French arm April 27, 2016 European private equity group AnaCap Financial Partners has entered exclusive talks to buy Barclays' French retail banking and wealth business. The division offers services including current accounts, deposits and mortgages, as well as a variety of products including life insurance and wealth management. The business has a network of 74 branches across France. If a deal is [...]