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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Why private credit’s gung-ho growth needs proper monitoring

    A rapid expansion in finance is coming together in an excitable cocktail of risk and opportunity

    Apollo Global Management signage in New York
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Are you protected by the UK’s new fraud rules?

    As the focus shifts from blaming customers to shutting down scammers, most victims will receive automatic refunds. But is it enough?

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Should banks make money from your financial data? 

    Some companies are already planning targeted marketing

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Starling Bank Ltd
    Starling Bank fined £29mn over ‘shockingly lax’ crime controls

    FCA says lender’s efforts to identify potential money laundering ‘did not keep pace’ with its growth

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Starling Bank Ltd
    Starling: a bank built on ‘shockingly lax’ customer checks

    Senior management at UK’s premier Covid loan-arranger neobank were worse than useless, FCA finds

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    News in-depthUniCredit SpA
    Anatomy of a trade: how UniCredit built its Commerzbank stake

    Italian lender sidestepped bank ownership rules to build 21% position in German rival

    Montage of Andrea Orcel with Barclays, Bank of America, UniCredit and Commerzbank logos and euro notes in the background
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    LexApollo Global Management LLC
    Apollo is ready to dance on banking’s grave Premium content

    Eras in financial services end or recede with the incumbents always the last to find out

    Apollo Global Management signage on a marble surface in a modern, well-lit office space with large windows.
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Financial fraud
    Meta expands data accord with UK banks in push to cut online fraud

    Tech group to roll out channel for sharing of transaction intelligence

    Signage outside Meta headquarters
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Is Apollo a friend or foe to banks? Premium content

    Plus, how Andrea Orcel covertly built up a stake in Commerzbank and celebrities ditch BDO after ex-employee is accused of fraud

    Marc Rowan
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Barclays PLC
    Barclays details plans to revamp investment banking returns

    Co-heads of British lender’s investment banking arm seek to reduce reliance on debt underwriting

    Exterior of Barclays headquarters in Canary Wharf
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Apollo Global Management LLC
    Apollo plans to double assets by 2029 as it lays down challenge to banks

    Chief Marc Rowan sets targets for private capital group to become one of world’s largest debt underwriters

    Apollo chief Marc Rowan
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Commerzbank AG
    EU policymakers lash out at Berlin’s Commerzbank ‘hypocrisy’

    Bloc’s officials say opposition to UniCredit’s move on German lender at odds with Berlin’s pro-EU stance

    A Commerzbank logo with UniCredit credit cards in the foreground
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    News in-depthHigh frequency trading
    How trading firms displaced banks as the titans of Wall Street

    Handful of secretive businesses including Jane Street and Citadel Securities have seized market share from the old guard

    Montage showing the logos and buildings of Citadel Securities and Jane Street Capital
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    UK banks
    UK banks divided over charging scam victims £100 for reimbursement

    New fraud rules will see some lenders dock customers’ compensation while others waive charges

    Exterior of TSB branch
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    UBS Group AG
    UBS executive seeking recovery of billions lent by Greensill leaves bank

    Eraj Shirvani exits Swiss financial services company as it chases $2.3bn of debts still outstanding

    A logo at the entrance to the UBS headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Simon Samuels
    The trouble with UniCredit’s interest in Commerzbank

    Banks getting bigger may be attractive, but there are significant drawbacks — especially for the taxpayer

    The logo of German bank Commerzbank
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Person in the News
    Andrea Orcel, the ambitious UniCredit chief eyeing his next deal

    The controversial move on Commerzbank would be the first big cross-border deal in Europe since the financial crisis

    Illustration of Andrea Orcel
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Financial fraud
    UK banks more likely to pay out fraud compensation than overseas rivals

    Survey shows half of UK fraud victims gain at least a partial refund for their losses

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    BofA suspends bankers following probe into Asian stock offerings

    An internal investigation is examining whether executives tipped off certain investors of upcoming secondary offerings

    A Bank of America branch in New York City
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Citigroup Inc
    Citigroup strikes $25bn deal with Apollo to launch private credit venture

    US lender seeks to win back business from asset managers that have targeted traditional banks’ most lucrative clients

    Vis Raghavan
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Commerzbank AG
    Commerzbank to hold first meeting with UniCredit on Friday

    German lender lays out standalone case as it lifts growth and profit targets

    The Commerzbank logo on a sign is prominently displayed in front of the bank's headquarters, a modern, glass-clad skyscraper, in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Banks warm up to nuclear power

    Fourteen major banks and financial institutions back COP28 goal of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Commerzbank AG
    Top German investor urges Commerzbank to engage with UniCredit

    Support for open-minded talks with Italian bank comes despite hardening political opposition to potential takeover

    Bettina Orlopp
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Indian business & finance
    India wrestles with unsecured lending hangover

    Young Indians are racking up personal loan and credit card debts

    Shopping centre in New Delhi, India
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Commerzbank AG
    Commerzbank picks Orlopp as new chief amid fight over potential UniCredit takeover

    Current chief financial officer is sceptical about case for combining Italian and German lenders

    Bettina Orlopp
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