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Metro Bank shareholders are nursing losses of around 70% since the start of the year. But if this is the worst of UK banking’s problems right now, the sector is in pretty good shape as it faces Brexit and digital disruption. -
Metro Bank, the embattled UK challenger bank, is expected to launch its planned £350m equity capital raise in the coming days after the bank was forced to quash rumours of financial instability on social media over the weekend. It may also sell or securitize some loans.
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Ken Brown, until last year head of global finance for EMEA at Nomura, has joined Barclays as chairman of its equity capital markets business in Europe and the Middle East.
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US fund manager BlackRock has pulled the plug on a rescue deal for ailing Italian bank Carige, setting the stage for a difficult political argument over whether to approve yet another costly government bailout.
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UniCredit’s chief executive, Jean Pierre Mustier, moved fast this week to sell €1bn of stock in FinecoBank, the Italian bank’s online brokerage, after a decision to deconsolidate the unit. Many in the market see UniCredit's accelerating asset sales as an effort to boost its capital position before exploring M&A opportunities in 2020. Aidan Gregory reports.
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The EBRD is working with Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania to have the Baltic region classified as a frontier market initially and is working on a pan-area covered bond framework
