Can banks establish a 0% limit on mortgages?
25 february 2016
Following the drop of the Euribor, the banking sector reinforces its mortgages linked to this rate, with clauses limiting the minimum interest pay-out to 0%. But after the fall of the “floor clauses”, are they facing another legal battle?
5 key aspects of the "Risk Traffic Light" system
5 february 2016
Between the Defensor del Pueblo, the Stock Market National Committee and the Ministry of Economics, a new information system for retail investors has been brewing since 2012. Here we analyse the new “risk traffic light”, an initiative that on February 5th finally turned green.
Where can negative rates currently be found?
27 january 2016
Lenders don't pull in profits any more: they do the paying. Same goes for depositors. Negative yield now affects dissimilar yet interrelated assets and financial movements. For banks, investment options vanish; small investors face entirely new prospects.
The management of Deutsche Bank: Chronology of a chaotic year
25 january 2016
The first financial group of Germany and one of banking's references on a global scale faces perhaps the hardest spell in the bank's 58-year long history (after re-emerging in 1957), What has been going on in the last few months at DB?