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EU charges 3 of world’s biggest banks with rate rigging
21 May 2014
US and European regulators have so far handed down some $6 billion in fines to 10 banks and brokerages for rigging the Libor and its euro cousin Euribor
FM asks banks to get tough on willful defaulters
14 May 2014
Finance minister P Chidambaram has asked bank managements to form a consortium and take joint action against willful defaulters
Reduce govt stake in PSU banks to below 50%: RBI panel
14 May 2014
The central government is a good example of a bank shareholder that has suffered deeply negative returns over decades
HSBC to sell Pakistan operations to Meezan Bank
10 May 2014
The sale comes seven months after HSBC aborted the sale of its Pakistan operations to Karachi-based JS Bank Limited, which failed to secure regulatory approvals
Barclays "bloodbath": 19,000 jobs cut, hundreds of branches to shut
08 May 2014
British banking giant Barclays Plc today said that it will eliminate 19,000 jobs by 2016 and shut hundreds of branches as CEO Antony Jenkins sets out plans to overhaul the bank
UK government halts RBS bonus plans
26 Apr 2014
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