Banking giant HSBC has today announced plans to axe 3,000 jobs at its Asian headquarters in Hong Kong over the next three years. The reduction in headcount is part of an ongoing global cost-cutting plan after comes shortly after the bank said it would axe 30,000 jobs by 2013. The bank, which is Europe’s largest, [...]
Banking giant HSBC has today announced it has disposed of its US credit card division to Capital One Financial, as part of a global strategic cost-cutting exercise. The announcement comes shortly after the bank said it would slash its underperforming US branch network by half and also announced it would axe 30,000 jobs globally in [...]
Banking giant Barclays is the latest bank to report its half-year profits and announce job losses. The bank said pre-tax profits came in at £2.6 billion for the six months to the end of June, down one third from the same period a year ago. However, chief executive Bob Diamond said he was pleased with [...]
Banking giant HSBC has today announced plans to shed 25,000 jobs by 2013 after reporting a rise in half-year profits. The bank, which is Europe’s largest, has already unveiled 5,000 job cuts, 700 of which are in the UK. HSBC has a global workforce of 335,000 worldwide, with 52,000 in the UK. It said the [...]
Credit Suisse, which is Switzerland’s largest bank, has today revealed it will axe 2,000 jobs after unveiling poor results in the second quarter. The job cuts represent approximately 4% of its 50,700-strong global workforce. The Swiss banking giant has been hit by weak trading activity and the strong Swiss franc. Net profits dived to SwFr [...]
According to a report today, banking giant HSBC is to axe more than 10,000 jobs as part of the bank’s strategic review. The report from Sky News said some of the cuts will come from its head office while others will be the result of closing some retail banking operations. However, a spokesperson for the [...]
Manchester-based Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has announced plans to axe more than 600 jobs as part of a strategic review. The group said 670 field based jobs will go after conducting a review of its life insurance and savings division following its merger with the Britannia Building Society in August 2009. CFS, which has 8 [...]
Train maker Bombardier has today revealed it will axe 1,400 jobs at its plant in Derby. The job cuts are attributed to the company losing out to Siemens on the £1.4 billion Thameslink contract. Its Derby operations has a workforce of 3,000 and the company said 446 permanent jobs and 983 temporary staff will go. [...]
Banking giant Lloyds is to axe a further 15,000 jobs, as part of a cost-cutting exercise and will see the bank withdraw from international banking. The job cuts were first unveiled by the Sunday Times earlier this month but have only been confirmed today. The banking giant, which is 41% owned by the taxpayer, has [...]
According to a report in the Sunday Times, banking giant Lloyds is set to axe a further 15,000 jobs, as part of a cost-cutting exercise. The job losses are expected to be revealed at the end of this month by chief executive, Antonio Horta-Osorio, who assumed the role earlier this year after being poached from [...]
Banking giant Lloyds has announced it will axe a further 360 jobs and transfer 140 members of staff to another company. The banking giant, which is 43% owned by the taxpayer, has now axed more than 27,000 jobs since its merger with HBOS at the height of the financial crisis, some of which were due [...]
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today revealed UK unemployment fell further in the three months to March. The ONS said unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three month period to 2.46 million. The latest figures means the unemployment rate has fallen to 7.7% from 7.8% in February. In the meantime, the number of [...]
Comet owner Kesa Electricals has announced plans to shut almost a dozen stores and axe 150 staff after sales fell amid the challenging economic environment. Kesa said same-store sales at Comet dived by 15.2% in the 12 weeks to 30 April as the High Street continues to suffer as consumers rein in their spending amid [...]
HSBC has today revealed it will embark on a massive cost-cutting exercise, just two days after it unveiled its first quarter results. The bank, which is Europe’s largest, is looking to save up to $3.5 billion (£2 billion) by streamlining its IT operations and cutting back on its wealth management and retail divisions. However, the [...]
Allied Irish Banks (AIB), which was the fourth Irish bank to be nationalised, has today revealed a loss of €10.16 billion (£9 billion) for the 2010 year, compared with a loss of €2.3 billion the previous year. Meanwhile, the bank also announced it would axe more than 2,000 jobs in 2011 and 2012 in order [...]
Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM), the so-called bad bank, returned to profit in 2010, it was reported today. The crisis-torn bank, which was the first victim of the credit crunch, said pre-tax profits for the 2010 year were £200.1 million, against a £166.5 million loss in 2009. At the start of 2010, Northern Rock was [...]
Crisis-torn Northern Rock has today announced it will reduce headcount by a further 680 as part of another restructure. According to the lender, which was nationalised in February 2008, the job losses are necessary as part of a cost-cutting exercise and would affect employees “at all grades across the company”. Less than 2,000 people will [...]
The Royal Mail has today announced it will axe 1,700 jobs and close two mail centres in London under modernisation plans. The company has deemed the job losses necessary and come on top of the 1,700 jobs already lost this year. The latest job losses include 1,000 managers across the UK and come as the [...]
Banking giant Lloyds has today announced it will axe a further 570 jobs and outsource more than 560 positions. The banking giant, which is 43% owned by the taxpayer, has now axed almost 27,000 jobs since its merger with HOBS, some of which were due to overlap following the merger. The latest round of job [...]
Lloyds Banking Group has announced it will close down its Equity Markets division - as part of its strategy to dispose of non-core assets. The division has around a dozen employees and the announcement comes shortly after the bank said 200 jobs would go at its insurance arm. Since the onset of the financial crisis, [...]
Most European markets made gains Friday on the hope that finance ministers meeting in Poland will announce new measures to pull the region out of its debt crisis. The FTSE 100 was up 0.58 percent to 5,368.41 in London while the FTSE 250 added 1.01 percent to 10.428.2. Satellite telecommunications specialist Inmarsat (LSE: ISAT) led [...]
LSL: Rents reach record high in August
A survey by LSL Property Services has revealed rents in England and Wales continue to surge, with the average rent hitting a further record high last month. August represented the seventh consecutive month that the average rental cost rose. Lenders’ deposit requirements, together with unaffordable house prices has meant the rented sector has been in [...]
India lifts interest rates further to combat inflation
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today raised key interest rates for the twelfth time since March 2010, in a bid to tame stubbornly high inflation in a thriving economy. The central bank lifted its main rate to 8.25% from 8% as inflation soars on the back of higher food and fuel prices and [...]
New World Resources best among miners
European equities markets were higher Thursday after the European Central Bank announced a coordinated effort in concert with the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank to insure liquidity through the end of this year, with the ECB lending dollars to Eurozone banks, while markets were [...]
Indian inflation rises in August
Figures today revealed India’s wholesale price inflation rose to 9.78% last month – the highest level in a year – and significantly above the central bank’s target of between 4% and 5%. Not only was the rate up from July’s increase of 9.22%, it was also higher than expectations of a 9.70% increase. This represented [...]
Euro zone growth will slow but no recession
The European Commission has today warned that euro zone growth will almost grind to a halt in the second half of the year. Its prediction comes amid the ongoing debt crisis in the 17-member region. It slashed growth forecasts for the third quarter to 0.2%, while growth for the final quarter has been revised down [...]
ONS: UK retail sales fall 0.2% in August
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today revealed UK retail sales fell by 0.2% in August after riots earlier in the month affected trade. The fall followed slower growth in the previous two months after sales rose just 0.2% in July and 0.8% in June. In the meantime, food sales were also down – [...]
Figures today show consumers continue to cutback in the face of higher inflation and rising unemployment after Kesa, the parent company of electrical retailer Comet, revealed a sharp fall in sales. Total revenue in the previous three months fell by 9.8% on a like-for-like basis while sales slumped almost 22% after the company blamed weak [...]
US retail sales fail to rise in August
There is further evidence of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy after retail sales stagnated last month. Sales were flat from the month earlier after July’s figure was revised down to 0.3% from 0.5%. August’s figure was also worse than expected after car sales fell and excluding this item, sales rose just 0.1%. However, [...]
European equities markets were higher Wednesday as investors speculated that China might buy European bonds even though China’s premier said that nations with debt problems should not expect to be rescued. The FTSE 100 was up 1.02 percent to 5,227.02 in London, while the FTSE 250 added 0.97 percent to 10,107.9. Clothing retailer Next (LSE: [...]
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