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Royal Bank of Scotland’s plans to return to profitability have taken another blow after the bank posted a worse than expected £2bn first half loss on Friday morning, which it blamed on mounting legal costs. -
It’s becoming clear that the overall direction of travel, now that the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive is in full implementation, is to allow retail investors off the hook, except, perhaps, when they are at the very bottom of the stack in equity.
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The Bank of England doesn’t often follow the European Central Bank. During the financial crisis and its aftermath, the Bank was quick to cut interest rates and implement quantitative easing. The ECB was still raising rates in July 2008, and didn’t start QE until 2015.
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Intesa Sanpaolo beat analysts’ earnings expectations for the second quarter and came out shining in last week’s stress tests. Though its pile of non-performing loans is still growing, the bank has escaped the asset quality and capital adequacy fears that dog Italy’s other large banks.
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The UK’s Prudential Regulatory Authority has offered the nation’s banks a chance to temporarily free up some capital now used to comply with the leverage ratio requirement.
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Despite recording strong year on year increases to net income in the second quarter, UniCredit's corporate and investment bank attracted little attention on Wednesday. Instead new chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier spent time taking questions on the group's plans to raise capital, stress tests and non-performing loans.
