Category: European Banking News
European Banking Federation urges banks to refrain from paying dividends
Banks should refrain from paying dividends or launching share buybacks in order to preserve capital and keep lending to an economy hit by the coronavi [...]
COVID-19: The Outlook for European Banks
As more European countries go into lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic, analysis shows where the strains will hit the continent’s banking sect [...]
The dawn of a safe and sound European banking sector
It is commonly held wisdom that in every crisis there lies an opportunity. Financial crises are no exception. In the eurozone, we have seized the oppo [...]
12 years after Lehman, European banks face a new credit crisis
European banks are under intense pressure as the coronavirus halts all major economies, at a time when these institutions were still struggling with t [...]
All European Bank Stocks Got Hit Hard in the Coronavirus Market Rout
Industries haven’t all been equal in the month since the stock market rout began, and the European banking sector has been hit particularly hard. Euro [...]
Coronavirus: European banks get US$130 billion, easing dollar stress
FRANKFURT (BLOOMBERG) - European banks took US$130 billion made available by the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday, helping ease the funding stress from [...]
The rise and dramatic fall of European investment banks in the US
Europe’s lenders spent billions to crack the American market. But many have made a humbling retreat.
When HSBC interim chief executive Noel Quinn a [...]
CEO changes usher in a new era of European banking
Several major banks in Europe have seen changes in top management recently, in what experts suggest will be a new era for the region’s finance industr [...]
European Banks Have Another FX-Loan Rulingt to Worry About
Croatian banks, mostly units of Italian and Austrian parents, have started to feel the heat ahead of a landmark Supreme Court ruling connected to Swis [...]
N26, the German online bank backed by Peter Thiel, is leaving the UK — and it’s blaming Brexit
German online bank N26 has told customers it’s pulling out of the U.K. because it won’t have a license to operate there after Brexit.
The Berli [...]