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Basisbank Awarded Best Corporate Bank Georgia 2024 by Global Banking & Finance Review
Date: September 24, 2024
Basisbank has been recognized as the Best Corporate Bank Georgia 2024 by the influential international publication Global Banking & Finance Review at the prestigious Global Banking & Finance Awards®. In addition to this honor, Basisbank has retained its title as the Fastest Growing Corporate Bank Georgia for the second consecutive year. This dual recognition reinforces...
BNP Paribas signs deal to buy HSBC private banking unit in Germany
Date: September 23, 2024
PARIS (Reuters) -BNP Paribas <BNPP.PA> has signed a deal to buy HSBC’s private banking unit in Germany as it continues to expand its footprint in wealth management, the French lender said on Monday. The deal, which BNP said should be closed in the second quarter of 2025, will push the bank’s assets under management...
Bank of England set to hold rates with bond sales in spotlight
Date: September 19, 2024
By Andy Bruce (Reuters) – The Bank of England looks set to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday as it awaits signs that inflation risks are quashed, putting the focus instead on a decision about bond sales that could feed into Finance Minister Rachel Reeves’ first budget. British inflation held steady in August...
Fed’s Powell: Central bank forecasts don’t point to urgent action
Date: September 19, 2024
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that central bank forecasts for the path of interest rate cuts don’t imply an urgent process. “There’s nothing in the (Summary of Economic Projections) that suggest the Committee is in a rush to get this done,” Powell said in...
With Fed’s rate cut at hand, debate swirls over how big a move
Date: September 18, 2024
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday almost certainly will lower interest rates for the first time in more than four years as the U.S. central bank starts to reverse the restrictive conditions it imposed to beat back inflation, but whether policymakers opt for a half-percentage-point cut or smaller move...
French central bank sees consumer gains easing budget pains
Date: September 18, 2024
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s economy is set to gain momentum in the coming two years as lower inflation boosts consumer spending, helping to offset the drag from government belt-tightening, the central bank forecast on Tuesday. The euro zone’s second-biggest economy was set to grow 1.1% this year, the Bank of France said in its...