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TUA Assicurazioni, a non-life company founded in 2003, is valued at around 300 million euros ($335 million), according to the sources. Two sources mentioned German insurance heavyweight Allianz (ALVG.DE), fellow German insurer Talanx (TLXGn.DE) and France's Groupama as potential bidders. One of them also named Italy's Itas as one of up to five parties that could bid in the second round. Talanx has expressed interest in ICCREA's non-life business and is competing with Swiss Helvetia Group (HELN.S), Groupama and Italian cooperative insurer Assimoco. ($1 = 0.8946 euros)Additional reporting by Gianluca Semarero in Milan, writing by Keith Weir Editing by Keith Weir and Louise HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: TUA, TUA Assicurazioni, Italy's, ICCREA, Talanx, Rothschild, Mediobanca, Groupama, Gianluca Semarero, Keith Weir, Louise Heavens Organizations: Generali, Cattolica, Allianz, Swiss Helvetia Group, Itas, Thomson Locations: MILAN, Generali, Mediobanca, Talanx, Milan
The average two-year fixed residential mortgage rate climbed to 6.66%, narrowly exceeding the 6.65% touched on Oct. 20 and the highest since August 2008 when it stood at 6.94%, according to data provider Moneyfacts. Governor Andrew Bailey said last month there were signs of more persistent underlying inflation pressures after the BoE unexpectedly raised its Bank Rate to 5% in an effort to tame the highest inflation rate among the world's big rich economies. Swap rates, a key measure lenders use to determine the cost of mortgage borrowing, have also soared. The surge has prompted major mortgage lenders to repeatedly reprice home loan offerings. British homebuyers typically take out mortgages with an interest rate that is fixed for two or five years, and then remortgage on to a new fixed rate or accept a variable rate.
Persons: Liz Truss, Andrew Bailey, BoE, reprice, Andrew Asaam, Suban Adbulla, Sachin Ravikumar, William Schomberg, Kate Holton, Andy Bruce Organizations: Bank of England, Nationwide, Lloyds Bank, Santander, Tuesday, Treasury, Lloyds Banking Group, Thomson Locations: Britain's, British, Halifax
How UBS can cling on to its Swiss purchase
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Liam Proud | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
The Swiss bank is under pressure to offload Credit Suisse’s local business to ease a political backlash in its home market. UBS acquired the subsidiary known as Credit Suisse (Schweiz) AG as part of its rescue of the ailing lender in March. Many lawmakers and voters dislike the tie-up, in part because taxpayers provided $10 billion of insurance against possible losses on Credit Suisse assets. Ermotti, who previously ran UBS between 2011 and 2020, now favours keeping the business, according to Swiss media reports. If Ermotti can avoid large-scale job losses in the coming years, he may be able to hang onto his Swiss purchase.
Persons: Sergio Ermotti, Ermotti, Ralph Hamers, Lukas Gähwiler, GRACE, Peter Thal Larsen, Katrina Hamlin Organizations: Reuters, UBS boss’s, UBS, Credit Suisse, AG, Swiss National Bank, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Credit Suisse Schweiz, Suisse, Reuters Graphics, Credit, JPMorgan, Schweiz, Thomson Locations: Swiss, Schweiz, Switzerland’s, Switzerland, Europe, Ermotti
UK banks are appropriate airbag for mortgage crash
  + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( George Hay | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Last year this was 2.9% on average for Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays. Hunt may be able to get banks to hike their savings rates merely by veiled threats. After all, the government would only be getting banks to do what they should be doing anyway. “It is taking too long for the increase in interest rates to be passed on to savers, particularly with instant access accounts,” Hunt told parliament. Around 60% of household deposits are held in instant access accounts, the committee said.
Persons: Banks, Jeremy Hunt, shouldn’t, it’s, Hunt, ” Hunt, , Neil Unmack, Oliver Taslic Organizations: Reuters, Monday, Banking Group, NatWest, Barclays, Lloyds, JPMorgan, NatWest –, Alpha, Treasury, Bank of England, Labour Party, National Savings and Investments, of, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Barclays –, Thomson
TOKYO, June 24 (Reuters) - Japanese online financial conglomerate SBI Holdings Inc (8473.T) said on Saturday it has raised its stake in SBI Shinsei Bank (8303.T) to 53.74% from 50.04% through a tender offer as a step toward taking the midsize lender private. SBI Holdings said last month it would launch the tender offer for Shinsei, with plans to pay 2,800 yen per share, for up to 154.2 billion yen in total. That remains far below the 7,450 yen share price the government would need to recoup the value of its loan to Shinsei. According to Shinsei's filing, its special committee suggested the bank was worth at least 3,000 yen per share, and one independent director opposed recommending shareholders tender their shares. It already owns the country's largest online brokerage, an online bank and an asset manager and has been taking shares in smaller lenders to create a nationwide network.
Persons: Shinsei, Satoshi Sugiyama, Jacqueline Wong, William Mallard Organizations: SBI Holdings Inc, SBI Shinsei Bank, SBI Holdings, SBI, Thomson Locations: TOKYO
TOKYO, June 24 (Reuters) - Japanese online financial conglomerate SBI Holdings Inc (8473.T) said on Saturday it now has 53.74% shares of midsize lender SBI Shinsei Bank (8303.T) from 50.04% after a tender offer. The completion of the tender offer through Friday is setting up grounds for expected delisting of Shinsei to give more flexibility in returning 349 billion yen ($2.43 billion) in public funds its predecessor bank received two decades ago in a government bailout. SBI Holdings said last month it would take SBI Shinsei Bank private and launch the tender offer with plans to pay 2,800 yen per Shinsei share for 154.2 billion yen in total. It already owns the country's largest online brokerage, an online bank and an asset manager and has been taking shares in smaller lenders to create a nationwide network. ($1 = 143.6800 yen)Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama; Editing by Jacqueline WongOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Satoshi Sugiyama, Jacqueline Wong Organizations: SBI Holdings Inc, SBI Shinsei Bank, SBI Holdings, SBI, Thomson Locations: TOKYO
Mortgage painThe announcement comes a day after the Bank of England raised interest rates by half a percentage point to help bring down stubborn inflation. More than 2 million UK mortgage holders paying a fixed interest rate are facing an increase of hundreds of pounds in monthly repayments when they are forced to refinance this year and next. Many borrowers bought their homes when mortgage rates were closer to 1% or 2%. That sets the country apart from other major economies, including the United States, where on both measures inflation has started to ease. After the latest rise in interest rates Thursday, Hunt said the government would “stick to [its] guns” on keeping rates high to tame high prices.
Persons: Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Sarah Coles, Hargreaves Lansdown, , Matt Hammerstein, David Duffy, Debbie Crosby, James Manning, ” Max Mosley, Jake Berry, Sunak, Liz Truss, Brexit, Mark Carney, Charlie Bean, Hunt, ” — Hanna Ziady Organizations: London CNN, UK Treasury, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, BCS, CNN, Bank of England, National Institute of Economic, Social Research, Virgin Money, Conservative Party, Institute for Fiscal Studies, European Union, Bank of, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio Locations: United Kingdom, United States, Britain
Companies JPMorgan Chase & Co FollowNEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) has been fined $4 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after about 47 million emails belonging to its retail banking group were mistakenly and permanently deleted. Many of the emails were business records that the largest U.S. bank was required under SEC rules to keep for three years. According to a cease-and-desist order, the vendor failed to properly apply the three-year retention setting to "Chase" emails from early 2018. According to the SEC, JPMorgan has been unable in at least 12 civil securities-related regulatory probes to comply with subpoenas and document requests for communications that had been permanently deleted. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Jonathan Stempel, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: JPMorgan Chase, JPMorgan, U.S . Securities, Exchange, SEC, Thomson Locations: U.S, New York
NEW YORK, June 20 (Reuters) - The head of healthcare investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GS.N), Jo Natauri, will leave the company at the end of the year to pursue other opportunities in the sector. "We're entering a pretty attractive period for healthcare private investing, which I think could be pretty interesting to explore," Natauri told Reuters, without giving details about her next move. Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has invested $5 billion in healthcare assets over the last five years, she said. Natauri, who will step down from Goldman Sachs Group's elite partner ranks, spent 17 years at the U.S. banking group. "She's poised for success, and I'll be rooting for her," Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said in a statement.
Persons: Jo Natauri, Natauri, Goldman, Goldman Sachs, She's, David Solomon, Nicole Agnew, Jeff Bernstein, Adam Dawson, Saeed Azhar, Lananh Nguyen, Susan Fenton Organizations: YORK, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Reuters, Asset Management, Thomson
So what's hot in fintech right now? One area fintech companies are getting excited by is an improvement to online checkout tools. Callan Carvey, global head of operations at Cleo, said the firm's AI connects to a customer's bank account to get a better understanding of their financial behavior. "A job that typically would take around one or two weeks can now be completed in 30 minutes, right. Several fintech executives CNBC interviewed spoke of how they're not interested in launching products tailored to crypto as the demand from their customers isn't there.
Persons: MacKenzie Sigalos, hasn't, they've, Starling, Richard Davies, Davies, Niklas Guske, , B2C fintechs, David Singleton, Guske, dazzled, Cleo, Callan Carvey, Carvey, Teo Blidarus, Taktile's, Hiroki Takeuchi, Takeuchi, Changpeng Zhao, they're, Jack Zhang, Zhang, Prajit Nanu, cryptocurrencies, Banks, Nanu Organizations: Bank, fintechs, CNBC, Business, Allica Bank, B2B, Tiger, Schroders Capital, Atom Bank, Schroders, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, U.S, cryptocurrencies Locations: Amsterdam, MacKenzie Sigalos AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, British, Atomico, U.S
"Persistently high inflation and the recent spike in lending rates will trigger a correction in the UK (Aa3 negative) housing market," Moody's Investor Service said in a report. LONDON – The U.K.'s biggest bank temporarily withdrew mortgage deals via broker services on Thursday, as the effect of higher interest rates ripples through the British housing market. HSBC told CNBC Friday that it was reviewing the situation regularly, but did not specify whether the new deals would differ from its previous offerings. Higher rates are a possibility, given that the Bank of England is continuing to increase interest rates. It comes eight months after hundreds of mortgage deal offers were pulled in one day after market chaos at the time sparked concerns about rising base rates.
Organizations: Service, HSBC, CNBC, Bank of England
That’s the only way to explain a possible 600 million pound ($748 million) price tag for the Britain’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG). EBITDA hit 40 million pounds, up 5%, based on UK filings, while borrowings were minimal. Lloyds reckons the price tag could be as high as 600 million pounds, according to media reports. On that basis, TMG’s value including debt would be just over 100 million pounds. Japanese media group Nikkei bought the Financial Times in 2015 for 2.5 times the previous year’s revenue.
Persons: Liz Truss, Hannah McKay, Nick Hugh, EBITDA, Barclay, Sir Frederick Barclay, David, TMG, AlixPartners, Italy’s Agnelli, B.UK, Liam Proud, Oliver Taslic Organizations: Sunday Telegraph, British, Conservative Party, REUTERS, Reuters, Britain’s Telegraph Media, Spectator, Lloyds Banking Group, Lloyds, Daily, Nikkei, Financial Times, Economist Group, Telegraph Media, Telegraph, Sky News, Thomson Locations: Birmingham, Britain, Bermuda
Telegraph’s $750 mln price implies vanity contest
  + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Pamela Barbaglia | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
That’s the only way to explain a possible 600 million pound ($748 million) price tag for the Britain’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG). EBITDA hit 40 million pounds, up 5%, based on UK filings, while borrowings were minimal. Lloyds reckons the price tag could be as high as 600 million pounds, according to media reports. Japanese media group Nikkei bought the Financial Times in 2015 for 2.5 times the previous year’s revenue. Follow @pamela_msg on TwitterCONTEXT NEWSReceivers chosen by Lloyds Banking Group could put the Telegraph Media Group up for sale after its Bermuda-based parent company B.UK failed to repay bank loans.
Persons: Nick Hugh, EBITDA, Barclay, Sir Frederick Barclay, David, TMG, AlixPartners, Italy’s Agnelli, B.UK, Liam Proud, Oliver Taslic Organizations: Reuters, Britain’s Telegraph Media, Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Lloyds Banking Group, Lloyds, Daily, Nikkei, Financial Times, Economist Group, Conservative Party, Telegraph Media, Telegraph, Sky News, Thomson Locations: Bermuda
LONDON, June 7 (Reuters) - British house prices dropped on an annual basis in May for the first time in 11 years, and pressure on prospective buyers from higher mortgage rates could deepen the downturn, mortgage lender Halifax said on Wednesday. Kim Kinnaird, director of mortgages at Halifax, said demand was weakening and higher interest rates were likely to increase pressure on house prices. Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L), on Tuesday said it would raise interest rates for its fixed home loans from Wednesday. The stronger-than-expected inflation data raised markets' bets interest rates will peak at 5.5% later this year. Nationwide, another lender, last week reported a steeper 0.5% month-on-month drop in house prices in April and a 3.4% annual decline - the biggest drop since 2009.
Persons: Kim Kinnaird, Liz Truss's, Kinnaird, Myron Jobson, Suban Abdulla, Andy Bruce, Paul Sandle, Barbara Lewis Organizations: Halifax, Lloyds Banking Group, Interactive Investor, Capital Economics, Nationwide, Thomson Locations: Halifax
Telegraph faces sale after UK lender takes control of owners
  + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
June 7 (Reuters) - The Telegraph group of newspapers could be sold after the Bank of Scotland appointed receivers for shares of the publisher's owners who failed to repay loans by the bank, restructuring group AlixPartners said on Wednesday. No operational changes are expected for the media businesses or their employees, and "neither the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) nor The Spectator are entering administration," AlixPartners added. The Barclay family owns shares of B.UK Ltd, a holding company within the Penultimate Investment Holdings Limited (PIHL) Group that indirectly owns Telegraph Media Group Limited (TMG) and The Spectator magazine. AlixPartners said the receivers may reach a resolution which could involve the Telegraph and Spectator businesses being sold. Sky News reported on Tuesday that Lloyds was set to launch a 600 million pound ($745.4 million) auction of the Telegraph newspapers and The Spectator magazine.
Persons: AlixPartners, Alastair Beveridge, Ben Browne, Barclay, Aidan Barclay, Howard Barclay, Philip Peters, Rigel Mowatt, Gokul Pisharody, Bharat Govind Gautam, Chiara Ellsei, Chris Reese, Richard Chang Organizations: Telegraph, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, Telegraph Media, B.UK Ltd, Investment Holdings, Group, Telegraph Media Group, Spectator, The Spectator, Sky News, Lloyds, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru
LONDON, June 7 (Reuters) - Barclays (BARC.L) is studying options for its global payments activities as a part of broader review into how it allocates resources, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Barclays has already engaged at least one major consultancy firm and may hire others to split assignments, this person said. "Our three businesses continue to perform well and our business mix is robust - growing our global payments business is a priority for us," a Barclays spokesperson said. The payments study comes as Barclays had also drafted Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to conduct a strategy review of the entire banking group, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. How the bank should allocate resources between more predictable retail business and volatile returns from the investment bank has attracted investor scrutiny.
Persons: Amy, Jo Crowley, Pablo Mayo, Stefania Spezzati, Lawrence White, Alexander Smith Organizations: Barclays, Reuters, Britain's, Barclaycard, Boston Consulting, Bloomberg, BNP, HSBC, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro, Thomson Locations: London
The moves add to a trio of Barclays U.S. investment bankers that UBS announced it hired last month. Many Credit Suisse bankers are based in the United States. These bankers follow Barclays ex-colleagues Marco Valla, Jeff Hinton and Kurt Anthony, whose moves to UBS were announced in April. Sources told Reuters last month that UBS plans to retain only a small number of Credit Suisse senior bankers with strong client relationships. At Barclays, Braham was global chair of investment banking for technology, while Hardegree served as vice chair and head of technology M&A.
Persons: Laurence Braham, Richard Hardegree, Richard Casavechia, Ozzie Ramos, Jason Williams, Neil Meyer, Ken Tittle, Marco Valla, Jeff Hinton, Kurt Anthony, dealmaker Michael Klein, Braham, Hardegree, Casavechia, Ramos, Meyer, Tittle, Milana Vinn, Anirban Sen, Greg Roumeliotis, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: YORK, Barclays Plc, UBS Group AG, Barclays U.S, UBS, Credit, Group, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Reuters, Broadcom, VMware Inc, Thomson Locations: United States, Swiss, Zurich, New York
Major UK lender Halifax pushes up mortgage rates
  + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Andy Bruce | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - Britain's largest mortgage provider Halifax will ramp up interest rates for new home loans on Wednesday, according to pricing provided to brokers, the latest major lender to do so in response to soaring funding costs. The decision by Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L), comes after rivals like Nationwide Building Society announced hefty increases to mortgage rates. Two-year deals rather than five-year deals are currently popular among borrowers who hope that rates will fall again soon. "This latest increase by the biggest mortgage lender in the UK will spook buyers and sellers alike not to mention those due to re-mortgage in the next few months," Lewis Shaw from broker Shaw Financial Services said. Property website Rightmove said on Tuesday this was the first week since January that rates have averaged 5% or more across all LTV brackets.
Persons: Liz Truss, Lewis Shaw, Rightmove, Andy Bruce, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Bank of England, Halifax, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide Building Society, Shaw Financial Services, Thomson Locations: Halifax
From Allbirds sneakers to Lululemon pants, Wall Street work attire has gotten more casual. It's an awkward time for the Wall Street wardrobe. Trying to nail the modern Wall Street look can be intimidating. But blazers still have a place on Wall Street, even if they're not as omnipresent as they once were. All-white Sam Smith sneakers is now acceptable Wall Street internship attire.
Analyst group Jeffries says Lowe's may cut into Tractor Supply Co.'s rural-customer market share. They will roll out in up to 300 Lowe's stores by the end of the year and include new Carhartt apparel, an expanded Wrangler lineup, as well as items for pets, livestock, and trailers. Lowe's push to expand farm and ranch offerings could be troubling news for Tractor Supply Co., which has more than 2,000 stores nationwide. Per the Jeffries report, Lowe's rolled out a pilot of its rural concept in two stores in rural parts of Tennessee in 2020. Tractor Supply could face greater competition from Lowe's.
REUTERS/Marco... Read moreNEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) executives will update investors on its takeover of failed First Republic Bank, which has made the biggest U.S. bank even bigger. CEO Jamie Dimon and other top executives will present their strategies at an investor day at its headquarters in New York on Monday. Lake and Piepszak are among the executives in charge of integrating First Republic Bank after it was shuttered by authorities on May 1. JEREMY BARNUM, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERBarnum was promoted to CFO in 2021 after leading global research. The finance chief joined JPMorgan in 1994, serving in various roles including CFO and chief of staff for the investment bank.
2 mortgage provider has told mortgage brokers that "if a customer is unable to meet serviceability under the standard assessment criteria", it might apply a modified serviceability assessment rate. Since the buffer is a guideline, banks are allowed to deviate from it. "APRA should consider officially lowering the serviceability buffer for refinancers." Representatives for Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA.AX) and ANZ Banking Group Ltd (ANZ.AX) were not immediately available for comment. ($1 = 1.4743 Australian dollars)Reporting by Byron Kaye and Lewis Jackson; Editing by Edwina GibbsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
"When there's a macroeconomic downturn, it's generally institutional and business lending exposures that are impacted first," he added. For decades, Australian housing finance has significantly outpaced business lending, making home loan margins the engine of profits. A more recent exodus from non-lending retail services like financial advice has further weighted banks' allocation of capital to residential property. The big four banks said in earnings updates this month that their net interest margins peaked in late 2022 and have since narrowed. To hedge against interest rates risks, the Big Four may now chase new services-based revenues from commercial clients in non-lending segments, added Garland.
NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - At least seven top Barclays Plc (BARC.L) bankers have resigned to join to UBS Group AG (UBSG.S) in the United States in the last few days, people familiar with the matter said. The moves add to a trio of Barclays investment bankers that UBS announced internally it hired last month. Many Credit Suisse bankers are based in the United States. UBS has hired Laurence Braham, Richard Hardegree, Richard Casavechia, Ozzie Ramos, Jason Williams, Neil Meyer and Ken Tittle from Barclays, the sources said. These bankers follow Barclays ex-colleagues Marco Valla, Jeff Hinton and Kurt Anthony, whose moves to UBS were announced in April.
The moves add to a trio of Barclays U.S. investment bankers that UBS announced it hired last month. Many Credit Suisse bankers are based in the United States. Sources told Reuters last month that UBS plans to retain only a small number of Credit Suisse senior bankers with strong client relationships. At Barclays, Braham was global chair of investment banking for technology, while Hardegree served as vice chair and head of technology M&A. Williams, Meyer and Tittle were managing directors in the investment banking group.
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