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FTSE 100 movers: Financial companies' rises offset IHG and utility falls

(ShareCast News) - The FTSE 100 started the day on a high but slowly started to sink into the red, with the market down 4.22 (0.07%) by mid-afternoon to 6,349.61 despite a strong performance from financials. Aberdeen Asset Management, Standard Chartered, Barclays and HSBC were all boosted by the ri

Barclays appoints Standard Life's Gerry Grimstone as deputy chairman

(ShareCast News) - Barclays said Standard Life chairman Sir Gerry Grimstone will succeed Sir Michael Rake as senior independent director and deputy chairman with effect from January next year. Rake, who announced in July that he was leaving the bank to become chairman of payments processor Worldpay,

Barclays names Standard Life chief Grimstone as deputy chairman

LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Barclays Plc said Gerry Grimstone, one of the most prominent figures in Britain's financial services industry, will become its deputy chairman at the start of next year. Grimstone, chairman of insurer Standard Life, will become a Barclays non-executive director and

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Market Reconsiders December Rate Hike In US

Barclays Names Standard Life's Gerry Grimstone As New Deputy Chairman

DIRECTOR DEALINGS SUMMARY: New Barclays Boss Buys Bunch Of Shares

UPDATE 2-Europe to stress-test its banks again, but none can fail

* No minimum threshold will be used in tests * European Union countries will check 53 banks * ECB will test 39 banks across 10 countries (Adds detail from supervisor comments) By John O'Donnell FRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Europe's banks will be tested next year to measu

New Barclays chief backs bank to the tune of GBP6.5m

(ShareCast News) - A month before starting his new job, Jes Staley is already stumping up his own cash to back his new employer Barclays. The chief executive-designate purchased 2.79m shares at a total cost of £6.5m. The former JP Morgan investment banking head was appointed to lead the company lat

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: New CEO Buys GBP6.5 Million In Barclays Stock

ECB to run health checks on 39 banks next year

FRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will test 39 banks from ten euro zone countries from February 2016, it said on Thursday, as part of wider European checks. There will be no minimum pass threshold, which means that banks cannot be declared to have failed the test. Read more

UPDATE 1-Shawbrook profit up as lending to small firms increases

* Underlying pretax profit up 68 percent to 54.5 mln stg * Loan book grows by 23 percent to 2.9 billion pounds (Adds detail) By Lisa Barrington LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - New British bank Shawbrook said its underlying profit rose by 68 percent during the first nine months of 2

New bank Shawbrook grows profit on small business lending

By Lisa Barrington LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - New British bank Shawbrook said its underlying profit rose by 68 percent during the first nine months of 2015, driven by growing demand from small businesses for loans. Underlying pretax profit rose to 54.5 million pounds ($84 million) duri

BlueMountain won't replace Staley; leaving to be Barclays CEO

By Lawrence Delevingne NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - BlueMountain Capital Management will not replace Jes Staley, a managing partner who is leaving to become chief executive officer of Barclays in December, the New York-based money management firm wrote in a letter to investors obtained by Re

UPDATE 2-Fourth Chinese lender joins list of globally important banks

* China Construction Bank added to 'G-SIB' list * Shares in China Construction Bank down 1.5 percent * BBVA removed from list of globally important banks * RBS required to hold less extra capital in new list * HSBC, JP Morgan must hold the most extra capital (Adds furthe

UBS, Brazil investment bank head Lacerda part ways - memo

SAO PAULO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Swiss lender UBS AG said on Tuesday that Carolina Lacerda, the head of its investment banking unit in Brazil for the past four years, has left the firm. In a memo obtained by Reuters, Sylvia Coutinho, UBS's senior country officer in Brazil, said Lacerda steppe