With SAN Purchase of POP, We Look at Impaired Loans and Deposit Contraction Globally
It is not clear to us how a EUR7 billion capital raising will allow Banco Santander (SAN) to clean up Banco Popular (POP), which it has just...
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Higher Provisioning for Impaired Loans Dents Bank of East Asia's Second-Half Result
Bank of East Asia kicked off the earnings season for Hong Kong banks by reporting a soft second-half result as it took a hit to profit by taking a...
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Guoco - All in the Family
Relatively speaking, Guoco Group Ltd (53 HK)'s shares displayed signs of life in the past week, posting a 3% gain mid-week, before handing back...
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Money Matters: King Cnut and the PBOC.
King Cnute (995-1035) is largely recognized as one of the most effective of kings in the Anglo-Saxon period. His name is most often associated with...
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Money Matters: Turkey on the Brink?
Inflation data released in Turkey today is not encouraging. PPI rose nearly 3% MoM and now stands at 9.94% YoY. Oil price inflation will likely...
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