Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region and a pioneer in private sector CSR volunteering in the UAE, has announced that its award-winning Exchanger programme has completed thirteen thousand seven hours of volunteering so far this year, thus coming close to completing its fifteen-thousand-hour target for 2017. The Exchanger programme which has grown 245% since ...

Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) facilities staff voted to go on strike for four days in a dispute over pay in the first action of its kind at the central bank in 50 years, according to a labor union. Ninety five percent of Unite’s members in the BOE’s maintenance, security and the governors’ private offices — known as the parlours ...

Bloomberg Banco Santander SA said its takeover of failing Banco Popular Espanol SA will have a minimal impact on first half earnings, with the bank set to post a profit of 3.6 billion euros ($4.1 billion). Spain’s largest lender also set the price of its 7.07 billion-euro capital increase, saying it will sell about 1.5 billion shares at 4.85 euros ...