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UK banks: reasons to buy on weakness

STOXX Europe 600 up 0.1%

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LONDON BROKER RATINGS: Exane cuts Ashtead; Investec likes De La Rue

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning:

RHI Magnesita advised that Ignite Luxembourg offer undervalues company

(Alliance News) - RHI Magnesita NV on Tuesday said it was advised by Barclays Bank PLC and Peel Hunt LLC that the offer from Ignite Luxembourg Holdings Sarl to buy a non-controlling minority stake undervalues the company.

CAB Payments sets 335 pence per share offer price in London listing plan

LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - CAB Payments Holdings <IPO-CABP.L>, a specialist in business-to-business emerging markets cross-border payments, said on Tuesday it had set a 335 pence price per share for its prospective London listing, implying a market capitalisation of 851 million pounds ($1.08 billion).

UK banks face profit hit from rising threat of economic hard landing

(Alliance News) - JPMorgan on Monday warned that high street lenders, Lloyds Banking Group PLC, Barclays PLC and NatWest Group PLC, face a profit squeeze in the event of a hard-landing for the UK economy.

Barclays appoints new heads of forex trading

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UK finance minister Hunt says banks are slow to pass on rate hikes to savers

LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Britain's finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday that banks are too slow to pass on increases in central bank interest rates to savers and this is a problem that needs to be resolved.

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: JPMorgan cuts Lloyds Banking to 'underweight'

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning:

UK banks agree limited mortgage relief measures for stressed borrowers

LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - British banks agreed on Friday to give homeowners who miss mortgage payments a year of grace before foreclosing and to protect credit scores of borrowers who change loan terms, as the government sought to ease the strain of rising interest rates.

UK Chancellor Hunt agrees measures with banks to cool mortgage crisis

(Alliance News) - UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has agreed measures with lenders aimed at helping mortgage holders struggling with high interest rates, but has resisted offering government support.

UK's Hunt: Agreed measures with banks to ease mortgage payments strain

LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he had agreed new measures with bank lenders on Friday to help ease the pressure on mortgage holders of raising interest rates.

US banks push back as regulators prepare international capital hikes

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. banks are pushing to soften a major regulatory proposal to hike bank capital requirements, worried it could prove too onerous, especially for lenders still reeling from the March banking crisis, according to six people briefed on the matter.

US banks push back as regulators prepare international capital hikes

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. banks are pushing to soften a major regulatory proposal to hike bank capital requirements, worried it could prove too onerous, especially for lenders still reeling from the March banking crisis, according to six people briefed on the matter.

UK banks to ramp up data sharing in dirty money crackdown

Lloyds, NatWest among major banks involved in trials -sources

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Jeffrey Epstein got $300 mln tax breaks, paid US Virgin Islands police, JPMorgan says

NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase said the U.S. Virgin Islands gave Jeffrey Epstein more than $300 million in tax incentives and waived sex offender monitoring requirements, shielding the disgraced late financier as he gave cash and gifts to top officials.