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G20 - Finance Ministers and central bankers pose for the family portrait during the IMF/World Bank 2014 Spring Meeting in Washington

G20 towards deal on ‘bail-in’ bond cushion for banks

21/08/2014(0)
Government leaders are expected to agree in November that the world’s top banks must issue special bonds to increase the amount of capital which can be tapped in a ... Read More
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StanChart faces fresh $300m US settlement

19/08/2014(0)
Standard Chartered is in talks to pay up to $300m to New York’s top banking regulator to settle allegations it failed to identify suspicious transactions. New York’s Department of ... Read More
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Lawmakers criticize Fed’s crisis lending program

19/08/2014(0)
Federal Reserve was urged to limit its crisis lending programs for big banks from a bipartisan group of lawmakers. During the crisis, the Fed invoked its emergency lending powers ... Read More
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Money-Laundering increase, urges hiring by British Banks

18/08/2014(0)
U.K. banks have made a push to hire more anti-money laundering staff as regulatory scrutiny grows, with a 54 percent increase in the number of roles available over the ... Read More
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Coutts’ sale shows the politics of banking – Bottom Line

12/08/2014(0)
The biggest surprise about RBS considering selling the international units of its private bank Coutts is that it has not already flogged them. Since the crash and subsequent bailout, ... Read More
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Are banks looking at a shrunken future?

07/08/2014(0)
Amid the hundreds of billions of bad-credit write-downs and the multibillion- dollar settlements with government watchdogs since the 2008 financial collapse, it’s easy to lose sight of what good ... Read More
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Banks Must Show They Can Die Quietly

06/08/2014(0)
The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have just confirmed what most people already knew: The largest banks are far too complex and opaque for their ... Read More
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The Real Reason Banks Don’t Like Bitcoin

22/07/2014(0)
Banks are reluctant to work with bitcoin, that fact has been well known in the community for some time. Until now, though, few concrete reasons have been given as ... Read More
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UK banks face break-up threat as watchdog plans competition probe

18/07/2014(0)
Britain’s big banks could be broken up after the country’s new competition watchdog said it plans to launch an 18-month investigation into services for small business customers and personal ... Read More
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Draghi Says Banks Shouldn’t Count on Another Carry Trade

15/07/2014(0)
Banks shouldn’t count on a fresh round of European Central Bank cash to trade sovereign debt and reap big profits, Mario Draghi said. “The convenience to use the ECB ... Read More
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