In the current environment of rising interest rates, lower costs, and higher loan growth, we believe earnings and equity
valuations for the banking sector should recover in earnest.
Ibrahim Dabdoub, NBK's group CEO, says: «Last year was a turbulent
year for the banking sector in Kuwait, as the operating environment remained stagnant.
With cybercrime and ransom hacks being a common occurrence in today's newsrooms, Karen Wheeler, VP UK Country Manager at Affinion talks to Lawyer Monthly about the opportunities that can arise from these kinds of threats,
for the banking sector in particular.
This will be constructive
for the banking sector by further supporting long - term sustainability in Canada's residential real estate market.
Discussing whether JP Morgan's profitable quarter signals that the financial crisis has come to an
end for the banking sector, with Matt McCormick, Bahl & Gaynor, and David George, Robert W. Baird.
As for the
outlook for the bank sector, MWM said, «While the underlying earnings growth profile remains subdued, in a low growth and favourable credit environment, we expect banks to manage their deposit costs and return capital to shareholders via special dividends and buy - backs.
The report has landed at a politically sensitive
time for the banking sector, which has had its reputation shredded in recent weeks by the banking royal commission.
Analysts at Barclays Research said in a report: «The worst - case scenario has been avoided in Cyprus, but we think the risks on the euro remain to the downside, due to the negative
implications for the banking sector, political uncertainty in Italy and a sluggish growth outlook.»
Through training and cultivating talents, FCAS helps prepare the right
workforce for the banking sector, provide an internship scheme to students that combines both academic theory and practice, and build bridges between academia and the industry to make university curricula more relevant to the needs of their future employers.
The loss, which chief executive Stephen Hester said reflected a «grim»
period for a banking sector buffeted by the Libor scandal, has revived calls for the bank to be nationalised outright.
Once the FDIC and FRS exists, the only remaining
question for the banking sector is whether the losses will be paid by the banking sector as a whole (for banks within industry standard) or by the stockholders of banks (for banks outside of industry practice).
Lowering taxes provides a fiscal boost, stimulating economic activity and adding to inflationary pressure, all of which encourages higher loan demand, higher interest rates and consequently higher
margins for the banking sector.
With no foreign outlets available to the average saver, and a moribund domestic equity market (which was a relatively modest / declining % of GDP anyway), this savings pool was mere
fodder for a banking sector that continued to shovel money into property / construction & other unproductive loans.
Sampath Reddy, chief investment officer of Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, which had assets under management (AUM) of Rs 44,107 crore as on March 31, 2016, tells Puneet Wadhwa that this year, most of the growth will come from revival in commodity prices such as metals and reversal in asset quality
problems for the banking sector.
The boards of National Australia Bank and ANZ Banking Group will meet on Wednesday, ahead of their AGMs this Thursday, which will draw the curtain on a dramatic
year for the banking sector.
R3CEV, a distributed database technology firm, has the backing of a consortium of over 50 banks as it tries to design blockchain enabled solutions,
for the banking sector.