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...The FTSE 100 closed at an all-time high on Monday as rising expectations for UK interest rate cuts weakened sterling and boosted corporate valuations in London....
...Sterling fell against the dollar on Tuesday after an unexpected jump in UK unemployment led traders to raise their bets on how many times the Bank of England will cut interest rates this year....
...The FSB’s review said such state-backed guarantees, known as GACS, as well as an overhaul of restructuring and enforcement procedures, “successfully” helped banks slash NPLs from a 2015 peak to €63bn in...
...regulations than banks....
...Most personal guarantees are never called upon by banks, it added. The FSB’s super-complaint was the first made to the FCA since the watchdog was included in the regime in 2012....
...Markets shrugged off the Bank of England’s decision to hold interest rates at 5.25 per cent, leaving sterling down 0.36 per cent against the dollar on the day at $1.2651....
...Sterling nudged lower after the UK’s headline inflation rate unexpectedly held steady in January....
...Poor data undermines trust and skews forecasting — as several central banks, including the Bank of England, discovered when it came to inflation....
...Support for sterling comes as traders shift to price in two or three 0.25 percentage point interest rate cuts from the Bank of England this year, compared with six quarter-point cuts that were priced in...
...Sterling recovered from early morning losses against the dollar on Wednesday after December’s inflation print was stronger than expected, adding some pressure to the Bank of England in its battle to fight...
...Sterling held steady after official figures showed that the UK economy grew slightly more than expected in November with a 0.3 per cent rise in GDP....
...This is typically highly supportive for any currency and is an unusual feature for sterling, which in recent years has almost always had a negative real interest rate profile....
...Stress testing and monitoring liquidity remain important, given the raised uncertainty. Central banks also need to be clear and cautious with their communications....
...Sterling and the euro were each up more than 1 per cent against the dollar by mid-afternoon after central bank officials in the UK and Europe were less sanguine about the possibility of interest rate cuts...
...Sterling fell on Tuesday after softer than expected UK wage data prompted traders in swaps markets to slightly increase bets on the first Bank of England interest rate cut being delivered in May....
...The main difference between banks and the latter is its greater dependence on interchange fees from the use of debit and credit cards and currency exchange....
...The Bank of England has held UK interest rates at 5.25 per cent and signalled it is edging closer to cutting borrowing costs, weakening sterling and boosting stocks....
...The FSB security service said the unnamed woman lived in Los Angeles and had organised fundraisers for a Ukrainian group that spent the money on medical supplies, equipment, weapons and ammunition, according...
...“Think about an officer who needs to get his message from the Americans and he needs to make a case to his superiors that they actually need to trust the information provided by the west....
...The BIS’s Triennial Central Bank Survey on FX market turnover puts Sterling as the world’s 4th most traded currency, behind USD, EUR, and JPY. It is on one side of 13% of FX trades....
...Banks are demanding interest of over 11 per cent from almost one-third of would-be borrowers, says the FSB....
...They are commonly used by hedge funds to build positions in companies and are typically facilitated by big banks....
...intelligence (GRU) and domestic intelligence (FSB) on European soil over a period of at least five years from 2017....
...This unit generated one of the lowest ROTE’s among European banks last year. That lower ROTE may be due to less income productivity and lower leverage relative to peers, thinks Jason Napier at UBS....
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