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The finance angle is cost: advisers are the largest expense in a wealth business, and HSBC is replacing most of them with digital service only three years after it set out to hire more than 100 wealth managers towards…
Two costs rose at once for European companies: energy, with Brent back above $100, and borrowing, with French yields near 4.85% lifting the benchmark that banks, utilities and property companies in the euro area fund…
At Tuesday's value, a 10.2-point stake is worth about 3.5 billion euros, sold gradually into the market rather than in one block, which puts steady supply into the shares for the length of the plan. The bank itself…
The move in French debt matters most to banks and insurers that hold it and to French companies whose borrowing costs follow the sovereign; it reverses part of the sell-off that took the CAC 40 to a six-month low on…
The increase answers activist investor Palliser Capital, which argued the first price undervalued the company and asked for at least €60 a share; the new terms are still well below that, so minority holders now choose…
Sabadell fought off a hostile bid from BBVA less than a year ago; a large, declared long-term shareholder capped below 10% gives its standalone plan a more stable register, as chairman Josep Oliu put it, without a…
The split shows the bond selloff is now a country story inside Europe. Higher French government yields raise funding costs for French banks, insurers and heavily indebted companies and lower the value of the sovereign…
Sovereign yields set the floor for borrowing costs across the euro area, so French banks, insurers and heavily indebted companies carry the direct exposure: the CAC 40 fell more than 1% while the DAX and Italy's FTSE…
The gap between the two prices is 7.7%, but Axis has said its funding is not committed and that it would not announce a firm offer until financing is certain. For PTSB shareholders the choice is between an approved…
The week's pattern shows where higher yields are landing in Europe. Banks, which usually earn more when rates go up, had their worst week since April because investors are weighing the damage to borrowers and the…
Almost all of the increase comes from energy, which households and energy-intensive manufacturers pay directly; goods inflation outside energy is 1.1%. The ECB raised rates by 25 bp on September 10 and meets again on…
With the ECB raising rates and the SNB at zero, the rate gap favours the euro over the franc, easing currency headwinds for Swiss exporters that book costs in francs and sell abroad, such as Novartis, Roche, Nestlé…
Sweden's listed property sector carries heavy floating-rate and short-dated debt, so the policy rate is a direct financing cost for landlords such as those in the Stockholm real-estate index, and it sets mortgage…
Most Norwegian mortgages are floating-rate, so a policy move reaches households quickly. Oslo-listed banks such as DNB and SpareBank 1 groups are exposed through lending margins and loan losses; property companies and…
The three-vote minority keeps a UK rate rise on the table if energy costs spread into wages and prices, which matters for gilt-sensitive sectors such as housebuilders (Persimmon, Barratt Redrow, Taylor Wimpey)…
The release came the day before the Bank of England's September decision, where three members again voted to tighten. Higher headline inflation with flat core and services readings points to fuel as the source: that is…
Each hike raises borrowing costs for governments, property companies and leveraged buyouts and weighs on rate-sensitive sectors such as real estate and utilities, while widening lending margins for banks such as BNP…
The surtax applies to France's largest companies, so the CAC 40's big domestic taxpayers — luxury groups, banks, TotalEnergies, industrial and utility groups — are exposed through their effective tax rate. A reduction…
The proposal targets the profit line of Italian lenders — Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, Banco BPM, BPER and Monte dei Paschi — at a time when several of them are also engaged in takeover offers for one another. A levy on…
Italy now has competing consolidation plans that decide who controls MPS, Banco BPM and Banca Generali, and with them the Mediobanca holding that gives influence over Generali. Shareholders of MPS, Banco BPM and Banca…
Aggregate output is a broad gauge of domestic demand for European companies that sell mainly at home: banks through loan demand and credit quality, retailers and leisure groups through household spending, and…
Bank Rate feeds directly into the pricing of UK mortgages and business loans. Lenders such as Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays are exposed through net interest margins and deposit costs; housebuilders and listed landlords…
The deposit rate anchors what euro-area banks earn on reserves and how variable-rate loans reprice, so the pause after June's increase left bank net interest income, mortgage costs and corporate refinancing costs where…
Gilt yields set the base for UK borrowing costs. Banks and insurers are exposed through their bond holdings and through mortgage and annuity pricing; housebuilders and property companies through mortgage rates and the…
The federal budget is a direct order source for listed defence contractors and for builders, rail suppliers and construction-materials makers that work on German roads, bridges and track. The borrowing side matters to…
A busier new-issue market lifts fee income for exchange operators such as Euronext, Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange Group and for banks' equity capital markets desks, and gives private-equity and family owners…
Higher policy rates widen deposit and lending margins at euro-area banks such as BNP Paribas, Santander, UniCredit and ING, but raise funding costs for leveraged sectors including real estate, utilities and…
The bid reshapes Italian banking consolidation: MPS, Banco BPM and Unipol are directly involved, while UniCredit and BPER would face a much larger domestic rival. Because MPS controls Mediobanca, which holds a stake in…
The jump reflects the oil and gas shock that followed the outbreak of war involving Iran at the end of February, and it took headline inflation well above the ECB's 2% target, setting the stage for the bank's first…
A near-empty new-issue calendar cuts primary-market fees for London Stock Exchange Group and for the equity capital markets businesses of banks and brokers, and weakens London's pitch as a listing venue just as rivals…