European Banks: Regulatory Relief Is Positive For Dividends

The recent agreement on the output floor and other regulatory reforms was positive for European banks. Given that regulatory uncertainty is now much less of a problem, banks can be more aggressive regarding dividends in the near future. KBC and ING offer attractive dividend yields and conservative
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Hong Kong's private home prices broke historic records for the 13th straight month in November, with the ascent showing no immediate signs of ending and analysts … Major property consultancies expect Hong Kong's housing market to remain feverish in the coming year and climb a further five to 20%.
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As you draft your New Year's resolutions for 2018, there's new health advice to consider. Public Health England (PHE) suggests that adults should only eat 1,800 calories a day, compared to current guidelines of 2,500 calories for men and 2,000 calories for women, Business Insider reports. PHE, an
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The most hyped initial public offerings flopped even as the IPO market in general stealthily recovered. … But the bigger market calls — the direction of stocks and whether the bitcoin bubble would pop — I, like many others, mostly got wrong. … He has also covered finance and the housing market.
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UK investors are spoilt for choice when it comes to dividend stocks. The FTSE 100 contains a number of companies that have yields of 4% or more. Yet some dividend stocks are better than others. Many high-yielding ones such as Royal Dutch Shell and HSBC Holdings have frozen their dividends in
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A generous teacher who secretly made £7million gambling on the stock market has left it all to the fight against cancer. Grahame Pincock, 90, taught modern languages at schools across Glasgow while living in a modest £400,000 semi-detached home in the city. Grenfell Tower survivors miss out on
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IT WAS a year for bargains in the top end of WA's residential market — relatively speaking. WA's most expensive house this year sold in May for $21.5 million, which was well below the initial 2013 tender price of $30 to $40 million. The former owner of WA's Ikea store, Alan Tribe and his wife Marisa,
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At the time, Amazon told Fortune magazine that the Postal Regulatory Commission, which oversees the USPS, “has consistently found that Amazon's contracts with the USPS are profitable.” Spokesmen for USPS and Amazon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Friday morning.
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In this role, McMullen will help to oversee The Money Source's expansion plans, as the company is seeking rapid growth on multiple fronts, including mortgage servicing, correspondent lending, wholesale lending, and retail lending. McMullen brings more than 25 years of experience to her new role.
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Granite Point Mortgage Trust (NYSE: GPMT) and Western Asset Mortgage Capital (NYSE:WMC) are both small-cap financials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk,
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It may be a few years before experts can accurately assess how the new tax reform law will affect each city's individual housing market, but one thing is clear: For the first time in a century, the federal government has backed away from subsidizing homeownership as a pathway to the “American Dream.”.
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U.S. luxury housing is lagging behind the mainstream market, which posted tight inventory and strong price growth in 2017, according to year-end data from Realtor.com. The average sales price for the luxury market—defined as the top 5% of sales—grew 5.14% from January to December to nearly
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The bank will use Clareti Transaction Control (CTC) as part of a modernisation programme in its wholesale banking operations. The Clareti platform will ensure the robust, consistent and reliable implementation of a strategic control framework across the bank and will enable the bank's multi-national
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The real estate industry made significant movement this year toward improved communications between all the professionals and consumers that are required for a property sale. At the core of this is a concerted effort by the title industry to apply technology to modernize and upgrade the closing process.
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By Melissa Luz T. Lopez, Senior Reporter. MORE MONEY circulated in the economy as of November on the back of sustained bank lending, although growth eased from the previous month, the central bank reported on Friday. Domestic liquidity or M3, the broadest measure of money in an economy,
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Ag and business banking specialist Ryan Paulson (left) talks about the clear separation between business and family that he and his father, American Federal Bank senior vice president Dan Paulson, maintain while working together at the Fosston, Minn. bank. Photo taken Tuesday, December 12, 2017.
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Most of us wish we had more time to read, but life, work and binge-watching “Stranger Things” or “Ozark” can get in the way. Yet as the year creeps to a close and your year-end business winds down, this is the perfect time to enjoy a good book. Got a holiday gift card burning a hole in your wallet?
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6225 S. Navajo Drive, Peoria, E. & M. Real Estate Holdings LLC to Charles R. and Carolyn L. Johnson, $142,500. 1311 W. Tobi Lane, Peoria, Laron C. Holloway and Katrina M. Abernathy to Donnie Torrence, $147,000. 3206 & 3214 NE Adams St., Peoria, Ernest L. Frietsch to Juan D. Quintero, $150,000
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Expressing concern over the alarming trend of the banking sector being dominated by private players, the former Governor of Reserve Bank of India Y.V Reddy said here on Friday that privatisation of the banking sector was not healthy for a developing economy. Delivering a talk on “Developmental
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Earlier Friday, the ECB reported that bank lending to firms grew by 3.1% in November after 2.9% in the previous month, while lending to households increased by 2.8% after 2.7%. The central bank's key indicator of money supply growth, M3, grew by 4.9% in November, after 5.0% in the previous month,
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