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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
