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Taxpayer bailouts for banks 'too big to fail' to end by 2022
2016-11-08 13:36:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK's banks should no longer be "too big to fail", under revised rules announced by the Bank of England.
Climate change: big four banks' lending to Australian renewables projects falls
2016-07-04 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias big four banks lending for Australian renewable energy projects has tumbled in the first half of 2016, despite all of them spruiking their continuing support for the sector. Based on public announcements from the banks and their customers, the activist group Market Forces has found only two financing deals were closed this year in the Australian renewables sector. The National Australia Bank lent money to a windfarm in South Australia and both NAB and Westpac helped finance one...
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Big banks test blockchain to trade commercial paper
2016-03-03 04:49:25| Automakers - Topix.net
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking Corp are part of a group of 40 global banks that have used different distributed ledger technology to simulate trading of commercial paper. On Thursday, R3 CEV, a group running a series of banking trials of block chain, said the Australian banks were part of a global group that had executed "smart contracts" on five block chains.
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Big four banks set to raise capital again
2016-01-28 10:36:57| Automakers - Topix.net
Australia's big four banks's dividend payout ratio, at an average 78 per cent, the highest among banks worldwide. Some of the world's fattest bank dividends are at risk as Australia's four dominant banks, which together raised a record amount of equity capital last year, come under pressure to add more amid a potential rise in bad debts.
Here's What Big Banks Won't Say About Their Anti-Coal Pledges
2015-12-06 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: One after another, the big banks have rolled out new policies that limit the business they can do with the coal industry. In the last six months alone, nine banks have announced coal-financing restrictions. They have a long way to go: Between 2009 and 2014, the world's largest banks provided $257 billion in financing to the coal industry, newly compiled data show. Look closely at the new coal policies, and you'll see the banks aren't rushing to change that. "The biggest banks in the U.S. and Europe...