May 2012
May 2012
Brokers are still bullish on JPMorgan's stock, despite its shock $2 billion trading loss, underscoring how the derivatives saga is unlikely to serve as a blow to the bank's profitability. But its reputational and regulatory impact could be considerable, analysts conclude.
May 2012
Barclays has revealed that its Barclaycard operation in the US is to offer online savings in a bid to increase US-based deposits.
May 2012
Moody’s downgrading of 26 Italian banks will fuel mergers and acquisitions activity, according to Nomura analysts
May 2012
Kuwaiti lender pays $355 million for Eurobank Tekfen; Greek seller bolsters capital levels
May 2012
The crowd is taking over from traditional sources of finance and it is here to stay. It’s the start of the big bank disintermediation. Unless banks join the revolution, consumer lending may no longer be their sole domain.
May 2012
The first-ever survey to track the growth and trends in the burgeoning crowdfunding industry was released on Tuesday.
May 2012
Bank becomes Brazil’s 16th-largest company; Problems persist with smaller deals
May 2012
Banks’ misgivings about the Jobs Act reflect their own failure to cater to the full spectrum of US enterprise.
May 2012
With lending booming again, Russia’s banks need recapitalizing. Ironically, partial privatization of state-owned financial institutions may be crowding out much-needed stock offerings by private-sector lenders and smaller banks.
May 2012
Russia’s state-owned bank is forging ahead with market-share gains in Kazakhstan as local competitors fail to make a comeback from the financial crisis. And Sberbank’s success seems to presage a broader Russian resurgence that might counter Chinese influence.
May 2012
Trading volumes and expense cuts help; Eurozone concerns still loom over growth
May 2012
A top IIF official slammed the implementation of new financial rules amid darkening economic data
May 2012
Loan volumes at 15-year lows; New credit intermediation needed
May 2012
There needs to be universal agreement on what is shadow banking to tackle its regulation.
May 2012
In an exclusive interview with Euromoney, a member of the Bundesbank executive board says shadow banking is the greatest concern to regulators, who still do not fully understand its impact on the financial system
April 2012
With Brazil's central bank cutting interest rates, research from BAML shows that Alexandre Tombini may be right to be more concerned about growth than inflation.
April 2012
Despite the eurozone volatility, frontier market bonds could outperform emerging market sovereign credit in hard currency, Exotix, a frontier market boutique, has argued.
May 2012
China leads the pack; Apac firms seek expertise, R&D
April 2012
Economy and planning minister Muhammad Al Jasser, in a rare and wide-ranging interview with Euromoney, seeks to allay rising fears over the Saudi Arabian economy’s fiscal dependence on oil revenues while detailing his priorities for reform
April 2012
In a rare and wide-ranging interview with Euromoney in Riyadh, the powerful economy and planning minister Muhammad Al Jasser reveals his priorities for reform.
April 2012
International financial institutions finally seem to be making good on their promise to ramp up their commercial and, to a lesser extent, investment banking operations in the continent
May 2012
Some are calling him ‘bloated Bob’. Others prefer the prefix ‘bountiful’. I would suggest the adjectives ‘baffling’ and ‘burnished’.
May 2012
Substituting sovereign collateral for loans relieves encumbrance concerns; Bundesbank and Oesterreichische Nationalbank push back against programme collateral
May 2012
April 2012
UBS investment bank chairman jumps ship to BAML – to take the role that Orcel was offered before he moved to UBS
April 2012
As Bulgaria struggles with its reliance on investment from the foundering economies of the eurozone and its own torpid capital markets, does the government have the firepower to combat the storm?
April 2012
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