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A recent study out of the FDIC makes it clear that no one has any idea what compliance with financial regulations, including the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, actually costs.
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Latvia's largest bank is scrambling to contain a run among depositors gripped by fears of the bank's imminent collapse.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing criticisms of leaving the UK isolated after he said he would not agree to a new European Union treaty.
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China Construction Bank is in talks to buy a bank in Brazil amid plans to open a subsidiary in Latin America’s biggest economy, according to officials and people familiar with the matter. The FT reports.
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A third of the price that Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Money is paying to buy Northern Rock will be funded from the state-owned bank’s current capital base, the Financial Times has discovered.
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Paul Gambles, Managing Partner at MBMG International believes Europe's banks will need to raise more capital than expected.
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With only two countries apart from Slovakia left to approve the extension of the euro zone's bailout fund, all eyes are on the Eastern European nation of around 5 million people who are not keen on helping richer Greece.
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Slovakia's parliament may vote on the expansion of the euro zone's bailout fund as soon as mid October, but the risk of a Greek default is still possible, Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova told CNBC in an interview in Bratislava.
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Hungary's decision to help its citizens pay back the foreign exchange loans they took at the height of the economic boom a few years back has sparked outrage among banks and spooked foreign investors.
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Greek banks EFG Eurobank and Alpha Bank announced they merged to create southeast Europe's largest lender. Nicholas Nanopoulos, CEO of EFG Eurobank, talks to CNBC about the merger.
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The way to solve the euro zone banking crisis for the long-term is for a third of the industry to disappear, according to Ralph Silva, the research director at financial management consultant SRN.
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Market turmoil in Europe and the U.S. may have made financial institutions in Asia—particularly China—even more attractive sources of credit for Latin American banks.
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Two big deals last week — Google’s takeover bid for Motorola Mobility and Hewlett-Packard’s purchase of Autonomy — underscored the growing influence of boutique investment banks. The New York Times reports.
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Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, has come under increasing pressure from the Obama administration to drop his opposition to a wide-ranging state settlement with banks over dubious foreclosure practices, the New York Times reports.
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Second quarter profit and revenue at BNP Paribas missed forecasts on Tuesday as it took a 534 million euro ($761.1 million) provision due to its holdings of Greek debt.
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Bankers believe that an additional disclosure requirement, relating to previously unpublished details of banks’ credit exposures, could trigger approaches for credit portfolios from specialist buyers. The FT reports.
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New capital requirements proposed by global regulators demanding that the biggest banks hold extra capital by 2019 will bring about a new recession, Rochdale's vice-president for equity research Dick Bove wrote in a weekend market note.
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Investors would do well to start preparing themselves for rising inflation in the U.S., and the best way to do that is to invest in U.S. banks, according to Michael Yoshikami, CEO and Founder of YCMNET Advisors.
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Investors would do well to start preparing themselves for rising inflation in the U.S., and the best way to do that is to invest in U.S. banks, according to Michael Yoshikami, CEO and Founder of YCMNET Advisors.