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Europe banks fail to cut assets after Draghi loans

By Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, Bloomberg | September 20, 2012

European banks pledged last year to cut more than $1.2 trillion of assets to help them weather the sovereign-debt crisis. Since then they’ve grown only fatter.

EU lawmakers to defend Basel liquidity rule from backlash

By Jim Brunsden | September 15, 2012

EU lawmakers are resisting a push by the ECB to water down a planned bank liquidity rule amid concerns that it may harm economic recovery.

EU to seek ECB oversight of all Euro-area banks to curb risk

By Jim Brunsden and Rebecca Christie, Bloomberg | September 6, 2012

E.U. financial supervision proposals will call for the ECB to oversee all Euro-area banks to prevent lenders from pitting one regulator against another.

Trading Europe today: Pay no attention to that central banker in the corner

By Steve Zwick | August 1, 2012

Although it was built on good intentions and a willingness to overlook troubling details, those factors may be coming back to bite the European Union.

Diamond accused of misleading lawmakers after FSA chief’s letter

By Kevin Crowley, Howard Mustoe and Robert Hutton, Bloomberg | July 10, 2012

Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer Robert Diamond was accused of misleading U.K. lawmakers after a letter from the Financial Services Authority emerged, contradicting his claim regulators were “happy” with the bank.

Bank stress tests don’t mean pain is over

By A. Gary Shilling, Bloomberg | March 18, 2012

Banks must do more to meet new standards set by the Fed and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Italy said to pay Morgan Stanley $3.4 billion on derivative

By Nicholas Dunbar and Elisa Martinuzzi, Bloomberg | March 16, 2012

When Morgan Stanley said in January it had cut its “net exposure” to Italy by $3.4 billion, it didn’t tell investors that the nation paid that entire amount to the bank to exit a bet on interest rates.

Gold gains slow after EU deal announced

By Jon Nadler | October 27, 2011

Daily metals update including analysis of gold and silver

It's crunch time for U.S. debt negotiations

By Brian Dolan | July 17, 2011

Forex, interest rate and other financial market analysis, including what to look out for next week.

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