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UK's Hammond tells banks they will be a priority in Brexit talks

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Finance minister Philip Hammond sought to reassure Britain's powerful banking sector that he would protect its access to skilled labour and the European Union's single market once the country leaves the bloc. Hammond told lawmakers that the sector's interests woul

UPDATE 1-Moroccan bank Attijariwafa buys Rwanda's Cogebanque -sources

(Adds details and background) RABAT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Attijariwafa Bank< ATW.CS>, one of Morocco's biggest lenders, has bought Rwandan bank Compagnie Générale de Banque Limited (Cogebanque), sources close to the deal said on Wednesday. The deal will be signed during a visit by the

UPDATE 2-UK mortgage lenders face compensation bill for mishandling arrears

* FCA: banks sometimes add arrears to mortgage capital sum * Industry group says 750,000 customers could be affected * Mortgage lenders to work out compensation by end June '17 (Adds industry reaction) By Huw Jones LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Britain's mortgage lenders fa

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Pound Keeps Gains; Travis Perkins And Laird Fall

Investec upgrades Barclays to 'buy'

(ShareCast News) - Investec upgraded Barclays to 'buy' from 'hold' and lifted the price target to 200p from 195p. The brokerage said that it acknowledges the rationale for an element of near-term caution in the context of the likely impact of a fresh PPI charge and pension headwind in the third quar

BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: Investec Upgrades Barclays To Buy From Hold

UPDATE 3-Kremlin-backed TV channel cries censorship in UK banking row

(Adds RBS statement) By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Russia accused Britain of political censorship on Monday after a British state-owned bank withdrew its services from Kremlin-backed Russian broadcaster RT. RT said NatWest, owned by Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RB

UPDATE 2-Kremlin-backed TV channel cries censorship in UK banking row

(Recasts with Russian Foreign Ministry, May spokeswoman, RT statement) By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Russia accused Britain of political censorship on Monday after a British state-owned bank withdrew its services from Kremlin-backed Russian broadcaster RT. RT said

British banks keep cyber attacks under wraps to protect image

* Reported cyber attacks up from 5 in 2014 to 75 in 2016 * Big banks spend $500 million a year, face constant attack * Fear of bad publicity, fines hampering reporting - sources By Lawrence White LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Britain's banks are not reporting the full extent

Barclays sells Italian loan portfolio

(ShareCast News) - Barclays has agreed the sale of a portfolio of salary secured loans in Italy to IBL Banca as it looks to exit its non-strategic businesses. Barclays said the portfolio forms part of its Non-Core and comprises around £260m of gross receivables. The sale will cut non-core risk-weigh

Barclays announces sale of $323 million loan portfolio in Italy

LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Barclays has sold 260 million pounds' ($323 million)worth of salary secured loans in Italy to IBL Banca, the British lender said on Wednesday, the latest disposal of assets from its 'non-core' unit that are earmarked for sale. Barclays completed the sale of its It

OFFICIAL CORRECTION-INTERVIEW-Deutsche Bank shakes up investment bank to regain lost ground

(Deutsche Bank says it has changed the reporting lines of Evans Haji-Touma and Ashok Pandit referred to in last paragraph but has corrected an earlier statement that said they have been promoted to global co-heads of sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and family offices) * Makes series o

Britain's FTSE steadies though banks, easyJet weigh

(ADVISORY- Follow European and UK stock markets in real time on the Reuters Live Markets blog on Eikon, see cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageId=livemarkets) * FTSE 100 flat * Banks slide * easyJet falls after downgrade * William Hill jumps following merger talks By Kit Rees

Canadian M&A activity hits highest since financial crisis in Jan-Sept

By John Tilak TORONTO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Canadian merger and acquisition activity in the first nine months of the year touched their highest level since the financial crisis, buoyed by several big-ticket deals across a range of sectors, data from Thomson Reuters showed on Thursday. M&

Barclays Agrees To Sell Non-Core UK Trust Business To ZEDRA