deleveraging

The global economy is gripped by its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. People are losing their homes and their jobs, banks are going bankrupt, and stock markets in the U.S. and elsewhere have fallen significantly from…

On the heels of a story about Spanish giant Santander buying Alliance & Leicester in the UK, it comes as good news in the marketplace that another Spanish giant, BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria), is on the prowl as well.After…

Banco Santander of Spain is using the down market to snap up some UK assets on the cheap. It has announced the acquisition of Alliance & Leicester, the former building society which demutualised in 1997, for £1.3 billion ($2.6 billion)…

According to the Irish Independent, the recent fall in Irish bank shares is due to a loss of faith in their bad debt provisions. On Tuesday, Bank of Ireland fell 14%, the largest amount in 20 years.After last week's dive in their share…

See my list of Bankrupt global financial institutions for past news on IndyMac and other bankrupt financial institutions.This is a very big deal. It seems that the financial crisis has reached fever pitch now. Given the week we just went…

Earlier this morning, I read about the bailout of Roskilde Bank in Denmark through the Sydney Morning Herald. Roskilde Bank, whose shares performed the worst last year among the Nordic region's 86 financial companies, became the first…

The FT reports: Citigroup is close to agreeing a sale of its German retail banking operations to Credit Mutuel for between €3bn and €5bn, after the French bank outbid Deutsche Bank in a close race, according to bankers close to the…

This is a big story coming from the Swiss German-language paper Sonntagszeitung. I originally saw this story in a derivative report from MarketWatch and then again at Calculated Risk. It's not getting enough play as yet in the…

UBS has announced that it expects further massive hits from the credit crisis and subprime meltdown to affect its quarterly earnings to be released soon. However, after raising a huge amount of equity capital, the company is…

The Vancouver Sun is on a roll today. They have another post on ICBC that makes for interesting reading. Frankly, I don't know what to make of it. But it makes for a good read. Chinese bank has market cap twice that of JPMorgan First,…