Coronavirus Pandemic financial rescue package

The government is about to launch its scheme to help small businesses access crucial loans this week after widespread criticism that it had not acted fast enough to aid companies who are struggling to survive being hit hard by the impact of coronavirus. Small companies are rapidly running out of cash as society shuts down…

Collapsed Yes Bank’s shares rise 47 per cent after rescue plan

India’s struggling Yes Bank, one of the country’s largest private lenders, which was taken over by the Reserve Bank this month, to prevent the lender’s collapse, reported a $2.5bn quarterly loss and rise in bad loans as authorities prepared for the final stages of a rescue plan to prevent septicity through a financial system already…

IMF earmakrs $50bn in emergency funding

The IMF has earmarked $50bn in emergency financing for countries stricken by a coronavirus, as the fund said the outbreak had forced a cut to its forecast for global economic growth. According to Kristalina Georgieva, IMF managing director, adverse scenarios about the spread of the virus and how it would affect the global economy were…

Three Barclays senior bankers acquitted

The Serious Fraud Office has lost its high profile seven-year case against three former  Barclays employees after they were cleared of fraud charges relating to deals made with Qatar at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Ro9ger Jenkins (64), Tom Kalaris (64) and Richard Boath (61) all defendants acquitted after a five-month retrial in…

Corruption at the Deutsche Bank

There is a scandal in the Wealth Management division of Deutsche Bank which paid £1.1m to secure the wealth management business of a senior Saudi Royal financial adviser, whose wife was paid according to an internal probe that led to two former employees being reported to criminal prosecutors. The money transfers were arranged in 2011…