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Europe's stress tests fail to ease investors' bank sector worries

* Latest tests give banks broad clean bill of health * Questions raised over failure to assess range of risks * Bad loans and weak profitability weigh on valuations By Huw Jones LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The latest health check of leading European Union banks failed to end

RPT-Brexit boost eludes Europe's investment banks, shows growing gap with Wall Street

(Repeats story that first ran on Friday) * European FICC down 6.2 pct y/y * U.S. FICC up 21 pct y/y * Further cost cuts loom By Anjuli Davies and Jamie McGeever LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Total bond trading revenues at five of Europe's top banks fell in the second q

UK banks mainly higher at markets respond to EU stress test

LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Shares in Britain's biggest banks rose on Monday as investors responded with relief to results of this year's European Union stress test of leading banks. The European Banking Authority (EBA) published the outcome of its health check of 51 lenders from across the E

Barclays Tier 1 capital ratio falls to 7.3% under EU stress test

(ShareCast News) - Barclays said its Tier 1 capital ratio fell to 7.3% from a 2015 year-end position of 11.4% under a stress test conducted by the European Banking Authority under the European Union's Capital Requirements Directive. The 2016 EU-wide stress test does not contain a pass fail threshold

Brexit boost eludes Europe's investment banks, shows growing gap with Wall Street

* European FICC down 6.2 pct y/y * U.S. FICC up 21 pct y/y * Further cost cuts loom By Anjuli Davies and Jamie McGeever LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Total bond trading revenues at five of Europe's top banks fell in the second quarter, lagging U.S. counterparts who capitalis

UK banks lining up to re-open AT1 market

By Will Caiger-Smith NEW YORK, July 29 (IFR) - Several UK banks could reopen the Additional Tier 1 capital market in the weeks ahead, as yield-starved investors find more to like in the risky asset class. AT1 issuance from European banks is down more than 50% year-to-date compared to

UPDATE 2-Barclays shares jump as transAtlantic refocus starts to pay off

* H1 pretax profit 2 bln stg vs 2.64 bln in 2015 * Profits from core businesses up 19 pct to 2.4 bln stg * CEO says strong and accelerating progress in strategy * Core capital ratio rises to 11.6 pct * Shares rise 6.7 pct by 0954 GMT (Recasts, adds shares, investor and a

BUZZ-Barclays: Q2 core business performance boosts stock

** Bank Barclays' shares up 5.7 pct, top of the FTSE, after saying core pretax profit for H1 up 19 pct to 3.97 bln stg ** "BARC has produced a 6% PBT beat in its core business (ex corp centre) in Q2," Jefferies analysts say ** Stock down more than a fifth since pre-Brexit to Thursday'

Barclays half-year pre-tax profits fall 21%

(ShareCast News) - Half year pre-tax profits at Barclays fell 21% to £2.06bn, reflecting the costs of offloading its non-core business. The bank's core business made pre-tax profits of £3.97bn, up 19% while the non-core business made a loss of £1.9bn. The non-core loss was mainly due to a £372m

UPDATE 1-Barclays Africa profit growth slows as rising interest rates bite

(Adds CEO comment, details) July 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's third biggest bank Barclays Africa Group Ltd reported a 7 percent rise in half-year profit on Friday, a slower growth rate as rising interest rates at home hit consumption and investment spending. * Diluted headline earnin

Barclays H1 profit falls 20 pct as costs of shrinking bite

By Lawrence White and Sinead Cruise LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Barclays reported a 20 percent dip in first-half pretax profits despite improved returns in its core business, as the costs of selling and shrinking the bank's unwanted assets in a harsh economic environment took its toll on ea

Bank solvency in jeopardy if recession hits post Brexit

(ShareCast News) - Britain's banking system will face a capital shortfall of £68bn if the UK hits a recession after it leaves the EU, according to Moody's. The ratings agency has carried out its annual stress test across British high street banks to see whether they have enough capital to withstand

Umicore, Sinochem expected to bid for Total's Atotech - sources

By Arno Schuetze and Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT, July 25 (Reuters) - Chemicals groups Umicore and Sinochem are among the groups interested in German surface finishing and metal plating company Atotech, put on the block by France's oil giant Total, people close to the matter said. Total

UK payments watchdog holds fire as banks retreat

By Huw Jones LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - Britain's regulator for the payment systems used by banks to shift cash said it would hold off from taking further action to boost competition as lenders sold off their holdings in a core payments system to MasterCard . Britain is trying to inc

UPDATE: RBS And Barclays Selling VocaLink Stakes To MasterCard