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Takeover set to unite two of the US’s largest credit card companies and reshape industry
Pay for bank’s chief CS Venkatakrishnan also drops 13 per cent
Structural hedges and American dreams
Moving the deck chairs around in reorganisation will not necessarily improve profitability
Chief CS Venkatakrishnan sets out ambitious plan to boost revenue and revive bank’s depressed valuation
CS Venkatakrishnan will next week deliver the UK bank’s first major strategic update since 2016
The bank’s underperforming share price can be traced back to disastrous decisions made during and after the 2008 crisis
Bank’s 50% market value discount to book value is far greater than those for Lloyds and NatWest
Disposal is latest sign that UK supermarkets are unwinding a previous push into financial services
Countries issued record amount of debt in January as investors sought to lock in yields
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Lazarus, thy name is single-name CDS
Intervention comes after years of patchy relations between ministers and industry and frustration in boardrooms
Moves follow similar action by HSBC and Halifax
UK bank agrees five-year lease extension on its 32-storey headquarters building
Students and staff are putting pressure on college bursars to find a greener bank
‘tis the seasonality
Patch up the roof, ignore the foundations, feed the hedgies
Sovereign wealth fund makes move amid pressure on bank to improve its performance
Project Minerva also examined more radical options including raising capital for an acquisition
Why aren’t they getting spent?
Investor interest in debt yielding about 9.6% comes after UBS received $36bn of demand last week
Did Kenny G call the top?
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