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All Greek banks will pass ECB’s stress test: NBG

ATHENS / Reuters Greek banks will pass the European Central Bank’s (ECB) stress test of their financial health, the chief executive of the country’s second-biggest lender, National Bank (NBG), said on Monday. The ECB will publish the results of a stress test of Greece’s four largest lenders — Piraeus, NBG, Eurobank and Alpha — in May to allow time for ...

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Credit Suisse pay plan sees opposition at home

Reuters A Swiss investor adviser group said Credit Suisse Group AG share-holders should vote against the bank’s 2017 compensation plan, splitting with overseas advisers that backed changes made following uproar last year. Ethos, which advises Swiss pension funds, also said investors shouldn’t support the re-election of Chairman Urs Rohner because renumeration changes were driven by management rather than the board, ...

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ECB asks Deutsche Bank to model wind down of trading book

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG has been asked by the European Central Bank to simulate an orderly wind-down of its trading book, Chief Financial Officer James von Moltke told Bloomberg on Monday. “There’s no novelty about the exercise per se; the novelty is that we’re doing this with the ECB,” von Moltke said. The exercise will take several months, being “broader ...

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