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• UPDATE 2-RBC profit rises 22 percent on strong trading

  TORONTO, Nov 29- Royal Bank of Canada's quarterly profit rose 22 percent on a sharp jump in fixed income trading revenue and steady loan growth, suggesting the long-awaited slowdown in Canadian consumer lending has yet to materialize.

• UPDATE 1-RBC profit rises 22 percent on trading, loans

  TORONTO, Nov 29- Royal Bank of Canada's quarterly profit rose 22 percent on a sharp jump in fixed income trading revenue and steady loan growth, Canada's largest bank said on Thursday.

• RBC profit rises 22 percent on trading, loans

  TORONTO, Nov 29- Royal Bank of Canada's quarterly profit rose 22 percent, driven by a sharp jump in fixed income trading revenue and steady loan growth, Canada's largest bank said on Thursday.

• UPDATE 1-Spain pushes ahead with sale of rescued banks

  MADRID, Nov 29- Spain is moving ahead with the sale of nationalised banks Catalunya Banc and NovaGalicia Banco, hoping to sell the Barcelona- based former savings bank early next year and its Galician peer shortly after.

• WRAPUP 1-Fed's Dudley downplays jobs growth, eyes 2013 bond buys

  *Pace of job growth doesn't materially change labor market. NEW YORK, Nov 29- An influential Federal Reserve official on Thursday signaled some support for further asset purchases by the U.S. central bank in the new year, arguing that recent improvements in jobs growth is still not enough to materially change the struggling labor market.

• UPDATE 3-Fed's Tarullo proposes raising foreign banks' costs

  NEW HAVEN, Conn./ WASHINGTON, Nov 28- A top Federal Reserve official launched a plan to subject foreign banks to the same tough oversight rules as their U.S. rivals, a policy shift that could make it less attractive for banks to do business in America.

• UPDATE 4-Lawmakers seek Libor controls at Deutsche Bank hearing

  *Deutsche Bank regulatory chief faces questions at Berlin hearing. *Deutsche Bank has made provisions for Libor probe- board member. BERLIN, Nov 28- German politicians called for tighter regulation of global interest rates after questioning Deutsche Bank about the manipulation of London's Libor benchmark lending rate.

• UPDATE 3-Lawmakers seek Libor controls at Deutsche Bank hearing

  *Deutsche Bank regulatory chief faces questions at Berlin hearing. *Deutsche Bank has made provisions for Libor probe- board member. BERLIN, Nov 28- German politicians called for tighter regulation of global interest rates after questioning Deutsche Bank about the manipulation of London's Libor benchmark lending rate.

• Europe seeks to bridge divide on banking union

  BRUSSELS, Nov 28- The EU is struggling to agree plans for the European Central Bank to police lenders from next year, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday that flagged British demands for what many see as a veto over the scheme.

• UPDATE 2-Fed mulls new rules for foreign banks' U.S. operations

  NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov 28- The Federal Reserve's top regulation official on Wednesday called for broad new liquidity and capital rules for the U.S. operations of large foreign banks, that would align them with those for American banks and protect the still vulnerable financial system.

• Colombia to offer climate change insurance to coffee farmers

  BOGOTA, Nov 28- Colombia is launching insurance to protect coffee plantations hit by climate change, which has damaged output in the world's top producer of high quality Arabica beans in recent years, officials said on Wednesday.

• Old Mutual's Bain gussies up for U.S. IPO goal, would follow ING

  BOSTON, Nov 28- London- based insurer Old Mutual Plc is likely to follow its Dutch competitor ING Groep NV and move to take its U.S. money management unit public, analysts said, as tighter capital rules in Europe loom for the industry. Old Mutual has said it is studying an IPO for the unit, which counts institutional investors as its main customers.

• UPDATE 4-Spain to overhaul rescued banks as condition of aid

  BRUSSELS/ MADRID, Nov 28- Three nationalised Spanish banks will more than halve their balance sheets in five years, cut jobs and impose losses on their creditor bondholders in return for a euro zone rescue, while a fourth will be sold off, the European Commission said.

• BAY STREET-Canada bank profits seen rising despite housing woes

  *RBC, BMO, National Bank seen with strongest quarters. TORONTO, Nov 25- Slowing housing activity and uncertain financial markets will not stop Canada's banks from reporting solid increases in quarterly profit starting this week, although recent gains in their shares mean it might take blockbuster results to push the stocks much higher.