Pressure on Spanish banks
This week the team look at the Spanish banking system, after a recent report into the country’s 14 largest lenders found they could need up to €60bn in new capital. But are recent stress-tests enough ...
30 Sep 201212min
SocGen focuses on Russia and Romania
This week the Banking team are joined by Paris correspondent Scheherazade Daneshkhu to discuss Société Générale's plans to boost profits in Russia and Romania by the end of next year. They also look a...
23 Sep 201212min
China Construction Bank targets Europe
As Chinese businesses do more deals in Europe, its big banks are starting to look at potential acquisitions in Europe, why former HBOS banker Peter Cummings was singled out personally by the regulator...
16 Sep 201213min
Restructuring banks, Libor and European banking regulation
Is there a new round of job cuts looming at Europe’s banks? The FT’s banking team also looks at the latest in the Libor rate fixing scandal and with a month to go until the Liikanen review is due to b...
9 Sep 201214min
A new CEO for Barclays
This week the banking team discuss the swift appointment of internal candidate Antony Jenkins as the new chief executive of Barclays. Alistair Gray, insurance correspondent joins to talk about RBS flo...
2 Sep 201215min
What next for Standard Chartered?
This week the banking team analyse Standard Chartered's decision to pay a settlement of $340m to a New York regulator related to its handling of payments to Iran. But with other regulators still circl...
19 Aug 201215min
StanChart pushes for a settlement
This week the banking team is joined by Anousha Sakoui, the FT’s M&A correspondent, to discuss the latest developments in the Standard Chartered scandal, as the bank pushes for a settlement against al...
13 Aug 20121min
Standard Chartered storm
This week the banking team discusses the Standard Chartered scandal as New York state’s financial watchdog accuses the bank of hiding $250bn of transactions with Iran. Also under the spotlight are RBS...
6 Aug 20121min
