Banking Sector

2ND ROUNDUP: Protestors attack banks at anti-G20 demonstrations

Protestors attack banks at anti-G20 demonstrationsLondon  - Violent anti-globalization protests Wednesday overshadowed the Group of 20 (G20) summit in London as campaigners vandalized banks and clashed with heavily-armed riot police.

Some 4,000 protestors, shouting "hang a banker" and "storm the banks" converged on the Bank of England and later vandalized the London headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

Development bank projects lowest growth in Bangladesh in five years

Development bank projects lowest growth in Bangladesh in five yearsDhaka  - Bangladesh's economy is expected to grow at its lowest rate in five years during the current fiscal year, mainly due to the impact of global recession, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) projected Tuesday.

The ADB Outlook 2009, the annual publication of the lending agency, said that the country's GDP growth would fall to 5.6 percent from 6.2 percent in the 2008-09 fiscal year.

It also projects a further decline in growth to 5.2 percent in the 2009-10 fiscal year.

Triad banking model working well in India, says RBI Deputy Governor

Triad banking model working well in India, says RBI Deputy GovernorMumbai, Mar 31: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan has said that triad banking model - state-run, private and foreign banks - is working well in India.

Mohan said that the growth of each sector has spurred healthy competition.

Julius Baer bank gets 34-year-old CEO

Julius Baer bank gets 34-year-old CEOGeneva  - One of Switzerland's largest private wealth managers will have a new chief executive officer come May, aged only 34 years old, the Julius Baer bank announced Tuesday.

The private bank said Boris Collardi would take over from current CEO Johannes de Gier.

Collardi, a Swiss national born in 1974, worked for Credit Suisse before joining the private wealth manager in 2006.

The previous CEO of Julius Baer, Alex Widmer, died suddenly in December 2008 at the age of 52, amid rumours that it was a suicide.

Government-approved capital restructuring of UBI to be underway soon

Government-approved capital restructuring of UBI to be underway soon Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Monday that capital restructuring of the state-owned United Bank of India (UBI) will soon be underway. The government-approved restructuring of capital will include over 80 percent reduction in paid-up equity, in an attempt to improve the monetary strictures of the bank.

Tata Motors-UBI tie-up for retail finance of passenger vehicles

Tata Motors-UBI tie-up for retail finance of passenger vehicles According to a tie-up between Tata Motors and United Bank of India (UBI), the public sector lender will extend retail finance facility to customers purchasing the passenger vehicles of the bigwig automaker.

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