Lloyds Banking Group asked for a two year extension from the European Commission for the sale of its 631 branches.
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RZB to Acquire Volksbanken AG Assets
Raffeisen Zentralbank agrees to acquire loan assets from Volksbanken AG as part of the bailout plan.
Senegal to issue Eurobond
Senegal to issue Eurobond, one of the very first ones from Africa. (Photo : REUTERS)The system of so-called A US$500 million ten year Eurobond issue would be made by Senegal pegged at a 6% interest rate.
New Stock Exchange To Be Formed in Canada
The Royal Bank of Canada and other fund managers to open new exchange to avoid high frequency traders.
Square 1 Bank lends PeakColo $3 million
PeakColo received $3 million loan from investment bank Square 1. (Photo : Reuters)This is the logo of Peakcolo. Cloud solutions provider PeakColo announced on Tuesday that it was successful in closing a $3 million loan from Square 1 Bank.
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Rampant speculation on Fed Reserve actions have caused German, Italian and Spanish bonds to decline.
Bank regulators are now considering increasing the simple leverage ratio to 6%. (Photo : REUTERS)The JP Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters is pictured in New York In a surprising move, US regulators are now studying a proposal to double the minimum capital requirements for its largest banks.
Swedish big banks' capital strength are more vulnerable to risk than what appears on paper. (Photo : Reuters)The image is the face of a Swedish kronor bill.
Banks from Switzerland are being pressured by European and United States governments to release private information.
Foreign banks recently invested in many local companies pushing the country's merger and acquisitions march forward.
Stephen Poloz, new central bank chief for Bank of Canada said on Wednesday that the bank can no longer rely on its usual models to assess the economy.
Finance ministers in the Euro zone agreed to systematically rescue important banks with a Eur60 billion bailout fund.
Jefferies & Co backed billionaire Carl Icahn's bid for the computer maker Dell Inc. with US$5.2 billion loan.
Ukrainian company gets a loan to build a wind farm. A unit of DTEK Holdings BV was able to get a Eur 138 million loan from Landesbank Berlin AG for developing a wind farm in the southern part of Ukraine.
