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UK financial regulators scrap cap on bankers’ bonuses

TheGuardian

Bonus cap to end on 31 October, a move condemned by unions as an ‘insult to working people’ The UK’s financial regulators have formally scrapped the banker bonus cap, removing one of the key reforms introduced by the EU in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Banking regulator Sam Woods: ‘This is the most intense period since the 2008 financial crisis’

TheGuardian

The boss of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) had headed to Devon for a celebratory weekend with his wife. But rather than settling in for dinner that evening, Woods had to book an extra hotel room to use as a makeshift crisis centre after US lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) suddenly collapsed.

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UK could face ‘banking crisis worse than 2008’ if City fails to prepare for fossil fuel collapse

TheGuardian

Report from climate activist groups says City is unprepared for potential collapse in value of fossil fuel assets The UK could suffer 500,000 job losses and be forced to spend £674bn of taxpayer cash to rescue its banks, unless the City prepares for the value of fossil fuels to collapse as a result of climate crisis regulations , research shows.

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New ESG laws will force big changes on banks

Accenture

Banks in Europe need to prepare for the biggest set of regulatory changes since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. They’ll soon have to comply with sweeping sustainability rules drafted by national governments and financial services regulators.

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Swedish Regulator Investigating SEB Over AML Issues 

PYMNTS

A Swedish regulator has opened an investigation into SEB, one of Sweden’s largest banks, over an increasingly volatile money-laundering scandal that has adversely affected the reputation of the region’s banking industry, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Barclays could be fined £50m for failing to disclose 2008 Qatari deal

TheGuardian

The provisional fine – which Barclays is in the process of appealing against – relates to the £322m the bank paid to Qatar in 2008, allegedly in exchange for the gas-rich Gulf state investing £4bn, helping save the lender from a UK government bailout. Continue reading.

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Americans Are Borrowing Like It’s 2008 … Sort Of

PYMNTS

trillion peak it reached in the fall of 2008 — the same time that the Great Recession was earning its place in the history books. trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2017, up $473 billion from a year ago and $50 billion above the previous 2008 record. trillion in household debt of 2008 represented 85 percent of the U.S.