* Internet used for nearly 1 bln stg transactions/day * Banking apps downloaded more than 14.7 million times * BBA says branches remain integral to retail banking * Banks looking to automate more within branches (Adds comments on changing use of branches) By Matt Scuffha
Read more* Regulator says many consumers do not shop around * Biggest banks offering lower rates on average (Adds comment from FCA director, further details) LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - Britain's biggest banks are getting away with paying lower interest rates to customers that have stayed wit
Read more* Internet used for nearly 1 bln stg transactions/day * Banking apps downloaded more than 14.7 million times By Matt Scuffham LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - Britons are using internet and mobile banking for transactions worth nearly 1 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) a day and branch u
Read more(Adds full name of FX company and weblink) By Patrick Graham LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - From a small, white-washed basement close to London's Liverpool Street station, Sakthi Ariaratnam is beating banks at what you would have thought was their own game - and it is relatively easy.
Read moreSAO PAULO, July 4 (Reuters) - Rogério Calderón, a former senior executive at Brazilian bank Itaú, has been tapped to become chief financial officer of HSBC in Latin America, according to a source with knowledge of the appointment. Until April, Calderón, previously a PricewaterhouseCoope
Read moreHONG KONG, July 4 (Reuters) - Chinese carmaker BAIC Motor Corporation Ltd, part-owned by Daimler AG, has hired four banks for a Hong Kong initial public offering worth up to $2 billion. The company has hired HSBC, CITIC Securities International, Deutsche Bank and UBS AG, according to a pros
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