Ft Banking Weekly

The banking team discusses the plan to rescue the Co-operative Bank, preview George Osborne’s Mansion House speech, which is likely to include clues about the government’s plans for Lloyds and RBS, and consider the view of a US regulator who described Deutsche Bank’s capitalisation is “horrible”.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the banking team discuss JPMorgan’s annual meeting, where chief executive and chairman Jamie Dimon won a clear victory over shareholder activists looking to strip him of one of his roles. They also look at pay in Europe in light of recent tweaks to EU bonus caps, and Qatar snapping up stakes in key lenders  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the banking team discuss the replacement of the scandal-plagued libor benchmark rate, which could happen as early as next year. Camilla Hall reports from Dubai to discuss banking in the Middle East and the US criminal probe into whether Barclays made improper payments in Saudi Arabia. Finally, the team discuss the financial wellbeing of the Co-op Bank as Moody’s downgrades its credit rating to “junk”  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the banking team discuss recent transatlantic spats over bank regulation, as Michel Barnier, the EU commissioner in charge of financial services warns the US on bank 'protectionism'. Miles Johnson, Madrid correspondent looks at the reasons behind Santander chief executive Alfredo Sáenz's resignation, and the team discuss the UK government's reprivatisation agenda for RBS and Lloyds as Jim O'Neil, the UK Financial Investments chief executive and the man appointed to oversee this element of the financial recovery steps down.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the banking team discuss the departure of the last two senior executives from the Bob Diamond era at Barclays, as Rich Ricci, head of investment banking and Tom Kalaris, head of wealth management, announce plans to retire. They also review the recent US bank results, and look at Chancellor George Osborne’s plans to expand the Funding for Lending Scheme  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the banking team examine the fallout from the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards’ report into HBOS, as former chief executive Sir James Crosby asks for his knighthood to be revoked. They also take a look at the latest developments in the Libor-related rate-rigging scandal as the probe expands around the world, and are joined by Elaine Moore, deputy editor of FT Money to talk about the Post Office announcing plans to offer current accounts in all its branches by 2014  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the banking team discuss two long-awaited reports published last week: the damning report on HBOS by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, which accused former executives of presiding over a “colossal failure”, and the Salz review of the culture and values at Barclays. They also look ahead to US bank results which start this week, and what they could mean for the industry  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joshua Chaffin, EU correspondent, joins the podcast from the Cypriot capital Nicosia to discuss the bailout deal that was reached in the early hours of Monday morning, and the mood on the ground in the country. Also up for discussion are the narrowing gap between bankers' pay and that of other professional occupations, and the latest tweak to Basel III reforms of the banking sector  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peter Spiegel, Brussels bureau chief, joins the podcast to discuss the potential fallout from the bailout in Cyprus, which sees bank deposits tapped for the first time. Also under discussion are the results of the second leg of US stress tests, as the Fed orders JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to improve their capital planning, and the latest debate about executive pay at UBS following the revelation that the bank paid nearly $27m to hire Andrea Orcel from Bank of America to head its investment bank and is paying its chief executive more than $9m.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

George Parker, political editor, joins FT banking correspondents to discuss the UK parliament's banking standards commission, which wants tougher legislation for the industry; pay at the top of Barclays and RBS; and stress tests in the US, which highlighted weaknesses at Goldman Sachs  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

FT banking correspondents discuss the latest round of bank results, with HSBC lifting its dividend by half in the fourth quarter and RBS and Lloyds moving somewhat closer to reprivatisation, as well as looking at the impact of the EU’s move to cap bonuses at banks.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT's banking correspondents look at RBS' plans for a partial float of its US business, Lloyds' plans to defer its chief's bonus until 2018, big investment banks losing market share and a regulatory push to limit banks' scope for discretion in calculating risk-weighted assets  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the banking team is joined by David Oakley, investment correspondent, to discuss Barclays’ recent restructuring plans and whether bank stocks can outperform all others in the coming decade. The team also looks at the possibility that the European Parliament could put a cap on bankers’ bonuses, as talks on EU banking reforms enter a potentially decisive week  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the banking team look at small UK banks' claim that a "glass ceiling" hands larger competitors an advantage. Also up for discussion are RBS' Libor settlement, Barclays' cost-cutting strategy plan and the latest European bank results  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week: chancellor George Osborne's warning that banks face break-up if they do not comply with rules designed to make the banking system safer, Barclays' woes as senior management figures step down and UK authorities probe the bank's Qatar connections, and risk weighted assets and the differences between the models global banks use to calculate how much capital to hold.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week’s podcast FT banking correspondents discuss the naming of some former Barclays chiefs in a Libor court case, the lack of regulatory co-ordination on 'living wills' and repayments by European banks of cheap ECB funding  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

FT banking correspondents discuss Wall Street banks’ latest results, British lenders’ calling for a deadline for claims over the misselling of Payment Protection Insurance and the effects of a change in capital rules will have on lending to the property industry.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week’s podcast the banking team discuss the possibility that Goldman Sachs might delay paying its UK bonuses until the start of the new tax year, when the top rate of income tax drops from 50 to 45 per cent. They also look at RBS considering recouping half of its imminent libor fine from its 2012 bonus pool, and UBS chiefs giving evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Why the loosening of the new global liquidity standards has given a lift to European banks, private equity firms take a bet of UK retail banks, and what should be the role of banks in classroom-based financial education?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Brooke Masters is joined by US banking editor Tom Braithwaite, James Shotter, Switzerland and Austria correspondent, and insurance correspondent Alistair Gray to talk about the call by US banks for an easing of the Basel III liquidity requirements as the Federal Reserve starts a new round of stress tests. Also discussed are recent developments in the Libor scandal and whether insurance companies should face the same kinds of regulation as giant banks and be designated as global systemically important financial institutions or GSifis  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.