With Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco putting its IPO valued at $1.7 trillion, below the $2 trillion mark sought by Saudi’s crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, it is set to become the world’s biggest Initial Public Offering. Aramco will not… Read More ›
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Bank of England to push result of 2019 Bank Stress Test on Dec. 10
The test was to see whether banks have enough capital to take on stressful economic conditions. On Friday, UK’s central bank, the Bank of England said, it would publish the results of its annual assessment of banks’ readiness for financial… Read More ›
HSBC second quarter profits rise by 15.9%, announce share buyback of $1 billion
While analysts’ had expected it would return some of its profits through dividends, HSBC has stuck to its strategy of share buyback. On Monday, HSBC reported its second quarter results. Its first-half pretax profits have risen by 15.9%. HSBC has… Read More ›
Jonathan Symonds likely to be GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s chairman
Jonathan Symonds is HSBC’s deputy chairman. His appointment to the post, still under negotiations, will be subject to approval from banking regulators. Bloomberg has reported citing a source familiar with the matter at hand as saying, GlaxoSmithKline Plc is in… Read More ›
European Commission likely to penalise banks for rigging foreign exchange rates
Banks that are likely to face the legal heat include HSBC, Barclays, JPMorgan, Citigroup, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, as well as a small Japanese bank. According to two sources familiar with the matter at hand, the European Commission is… Read More ›
Mark Tucker appointed as chairman of TheCityUk
The development assumes significance since the lobby group has been one of the main channels through the UK’s financial services firms lobbied the British government for a favorable outcome vis-a-vis Brexit. On Monday, TheCityUk, a British financial industry lobby group,… Read More ›
Large group of institutional investors drag 16 major banks to court over rigging forex market
The 221 page complaint alleges that these 16 major banks had colluded to rig the roughly $5.1 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market. In a significant development, a group of big institutional investors, which includes BlackRock Inc and Allianz SE’s Pacific Investment… Read More ›
Refinitiv launches $8 billion buyout – the largest since the 2007-2009 financial crisis
Refinitiv is essentially Thomson Reuters’ F&R unit, which acquired a 55% majority stake by Blackstone on January 30 2018. Thomson Reuters’ Financial and Risk (F&R) division – Refinitiv has has launched a price guidance on its term loan B, equivalent… Read More ›
U.S. Justice Department and CFTC charges 3 banks and 8 individuals with “spoofing” of U.S. futures and commodities market
The series of lawsuits mark the growing trend of the Justice Department holding individuals accountable for their roles in corporate wrongdoings. The U.S. Justice Department along with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have filed a civil and criminal lawsuits… Read More ›
AIA’s CEO joins embattled HSBC as non-executive Group Chairman
The move comes in the wake of HSBC’s lawyers urging a federal appeals court to not to reveal Michel Cherkasky’s reports. In a telling development, Hong Kong-based AIA Group’s President and CEO has stated that he will be leaving the… Read More ›
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