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Santander has built on a strong showing in the European Central Bank’s comprehensive assessment with an impressive set of third quarter results, which included a big rise in earnings for its UK unit and investment bank.
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HSBC’s third quarter profits and revenues were flat on last year's, as a punchy performance from the markets division was swallowed up by yet more conduct charges, including a $701m provision for payment protection insurance, a $550m US mortgage settlement, and a $378m provision against the Financial Conduct Authority’s foreign exchange investigation. -
The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee released its updated guidance on leverage ratio requirements on Friday afternoon. The new ratios look positive for the UK's largest lenders, being considerably less demanding than the worst case scenarios and with all but one of the country's global banks already meeting their requirements.
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BNP Paribas posted strong results in fixed income for the third quarter of 2014, boosting its revenues in the division to €911m — a 14.2% increase on the same period last year. Its fixed income growth was one of the main factors in the bank’s corporate and investment banking division posting pre-tax income of €675m — up 23.8% compared to a year ago.
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A weak performance from Royal Bank of Scotland’s repositioned investment bank, made worse by £400m of provisions set aside for an FX probe, has tarnished the state-owned lender’s third consecutive quarterly profit under new chief executive Ross McEwan.
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As the European Central Bank prepares to take over supervision of Europe's biggest banks, the rigorous approach it adopted in the Asset Quality Review, unearthing €136bn of non-performing loans that had been miscategorised, will become the norm, not the exception.
