Latest bank results news

• Debt issuance comes to the fore at Créd Ag

  

  Crédit Agricole highlighted euro DCM activity as a successful area in its first quarter results, with the league table showing it mixed with the big banks here.

  • 16 May 2019

• Commerz: Mittelstand clients didn’t want Deutsche merger

  

  Commerzbank’s small and medium sized German corporate clients did not want to be serviced by the firm if it were merged with Deutsche Bank, according to Michael Reuther, head of the corporate clients unit at the former. His unit is now hoping to take more revenue from its existing clients, after growth in several of them in the first quarter.

  • 14 May 2019

• UniCredit to change structure to reduce funding cost

  

  UniCredit provided details of its intention to strengthen its balance sheet further on Thursday, as it produced a well-received set of earnings results.

  • 09 May 2019

• SG to downsize FICC and cut costs, though financing beats

  

  Société Générale’s financing and advisory operations again produced strong revenues in the first quarter, according to results announced on Friday. Revenue in global markets and investor services fell, however, and here the bank is slashing risk-weighted assets, to refocus its business.

  • 03 May 2019

• Transaction banking buoys HSBC’s IB

  

  HSBC’s global banking and markets division registered a small rise in income in its first quarter results announced on Friday. Transaction banking lines helped outweigh revenue declines in trading and the global banking business.

  • 03 May 2019

• BNPP shares Europe’s FICC uplift

  

  BNP Paribas recorded a sharp rise in revenue in its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading (FICC) operations during the first quarter, it said on Thursday. Other European investment banks have registered relatively good scores on this front so far this reporting season, with the exception of Deutsche Bank.

  • 02 May 2019

• Deposits flowed out of Metro ahead of debt, equity raises

  

  Metro Bank’s first quarter trading update, published on Wednesday, revealed that commercial depositors pulled cash out of the bank after the January trading update that stunned capital market participants. Metro is looking to raise equity in the next two months, before issuing £500m of tier two debt later in the year.

  • 02 May 2019

• Santander reaps benefits from Americas ops

  

  More than half of Santander’s profits came from Latin America and the US in the last quarter, amid a plan to make savings in Europe and expand across the Atlantic.

  • 30 Apr 2019

• RBS pushes funding costs and NIM accounting onto NatWest Markets

  

  NatWest Markets made a loss in the first quarter, Royal Bank of Scotland said on Friday when presenting its results, partly thanks to it being made to account for the cost of old RBS plc debt. The group will also now stop including NatWest Markets when reporting its net interest margin, and one analyst said this could raise questions about commitment to the investment bank.

  • 26 Apr 2019

• Little to cheer in UBS’s IB results

  

  UBS investment bank’s profit before tax fell by more than half in the first quarter of 2018, with year-on-year declines in almost all divisions, the Swiss institution revealed on Thursday.

  • 25 Apr 2019

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