Banks

Royal Bank of Scotland Group (LSE:RBS) shares continued their bumpy ride since 2008, even after its rather healthy Interim Management Report for the first quarter was issued on Friday morning. RBS stock closed at 24.47p, down a modest 0.33% on trading of 184,525,074 shares. In a rare move during a banking holiday, RBS announced this morning […]

Standard Chartered (LSE:STAN) announced high single-digit growth in revenue in an Interim Management Report for the first quarter of the fiscal year issued this morning.  Oddly, share prices dropped over 3.5% to 1,458.50 by mid-afternoon. The Report In addition to the revenue growth, they reported the low double-digit growth in operating profit during the last […]

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) , the controversial New York based investment bank, has been fined $22 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for reportedly tipping off top clients about stocks. The SEC alleges that between 2006 and 2011, information from weekly equity research meetings between the firm’s analysts and traders was leaked to […]

NBNK Investments (LSE:NBNK), an investment vehicle focused on domestic banking, appears to have become the leading bidder for 632 Lloyds Banking Group branches.  Lloyds is attempting to sell the branches as a condition of being bailed out by the government in 2008. NBNK is reportedly willing to bid between £1.5 million and £2 million according […]

Shares of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) closed down 3.4% yesterday after a now former executive published a scathingly expository editorial in the New York Times. The London-based executive, Greg Smith, headed the firm’s United States equity derivatives department in EMEA and had been with the firm for 12 years, beginning as a summer intern. Smith asserted […]

Barclays (LSE:BARC) Chief Executive Bob Diamond earned £6.3m in remuneration last year according to its annual report, made available online today. For 2011, Diamond earned £1.35m in base salary, £2.7m in bonuses, and £2.2m in long-term incentives. Though Diamond earned £9m in 2010, £2.7m more than 2011, the announcement comes at a time when banking […]

For the ninth consecutive year, Standard Chartered (LSE:STAN) posted income and profit growth, beating the economic woes that have swept the banking industry in 2011. With an income growth of 10% from a year ago, the international banking group earned $17.6 billion and made a profit of $6.7 billion out it, representing an 11% increase […]

Barclays (LSE:BARC) confirmed they are the bank involved in the crackdown of HM Revenue & Customs for tax avoidance schemes, which was announced the day before. Exchequer Secretary David Gauke, announced on Monday, 27th February they had stopped two schemes of an unnamed bank, which could have generated £500 million in taxes, in a rare act of “retrospective […]

Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY) reported an annual loss of £3.542 billion in 2011, a very steep downfall from the £281 million profit it made in 2010, citing the £3.2 billion Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) provision as the single biggest factor behind the loss. Still, Chief Executive António Horta-Osório said the Group delivered “a resilient performance […]

Barclays (LSE:BARC) saw its adjusted profits before tax in the UK retail and business banking operation to rise sharply at 60% to £1.42 billion compared with £889 million it posted in 2010, figures shown in the last reported fiscal year. Barclays were able to increase profits in the retail and business banking division by 48% from £2.235 […]