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Royal Bank of Scotland

‘Separability’ is now a buzzword in UK banking circles and it is not hard to see why, given that regulatory risk is as great as it could be

Sumitomo Trust / Chuo Mitsui

Japan’s number five and eight banks by market capitalisation confirmed reports they are in merger talks to form the country’s largest trust bank

GLG

With the rush by investors to exit the hedge fund industry over, assets under management have stabilised but are not yet showing much growth

Accounting for loans

Problem: lumpy bank writedowns. Quick solution: change the accounting rules. New problem: a Pandora’s Box of reportage

BNP Paribas

The eurozone’s second largest bank has avoided the toxic asset headaches that afflicted many European universal bank peers

Société Générale

The French institution was almost sunk by investment bankers, but without their renaissance, its Q3 profits would not have more than doubled

The UK’s ‘light-touch’ asset protection scheme

The Treasury, desperate to bury ‘light-touch’ regulation, must have winced when Stephen Hester hailed the new ‘light-touch’ asset protection scheme

Diamond Capital

The bank’s plans for untangling its retail and commercial lending operations will result in significant expansion of Bob Diamond’s empire

Lloyds Banking Group

The UK bank’s chief executive is sticking to his mantra: the worst is behind us. But is that the case?

Royal Bank of Scotland

The dismantling of Sir Fred Goodwin’s empire has started in earnest

Japanese consumer credit

CIT

Macquarie Group

Lloyds Banking Group

UKFI

US house prices

Rating agencies

BBVA

ING

Meriwether

Russia v Bank of New York

Morgan Stanley

Ferrovial / Gatwick

Deutsche Bank

US banks