European Banks Dangle Payouts as Pressure to Boost Capital Eases Bloomberg News
Private Equity Is Starting 2020 With More Cash Than Ever Before Bloomberg News
Reinsurance renewal prices hold the line in face of disasters Financial Times

UK AND IRELAND

Cash machines to offer basic banking services in next five years The Independent
Minibond firm Blackmore Bond misses another interest payment deadline The Times
UK reform of whiplash claims system faces delay Financial Times

HSBC
HSBC condemns vandalism to its branches Xinhua

Lloyds Banking Group
Britain's Lloyds Banking Group suffers hours-long online outage Reuters
Lloyds Banking Group customers hit by system outage Financial Times
Lloyds customers face hours of frustration in mobile banking outage Sky News
Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland online banking systems crash The Guardian
Online banking down: Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland customers locked out of accounts on New Year's Day The Independent

London Stock Exchange Group
Exclusive: China halts British stock link over political tensions - sources Reuters

Royal Bank of Scotland Group
RBS recruits army of digital influencers to promote new banking app Bó The Daily Telegraph

Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered Adds Information Chief in Singapore finews.asia

GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA

Scope faces uphill struggle to crack credit rating market Financial Times
"Only fintechs with a critical size will survive independently" Handelsblatt
Sebastian Kurz forms Austria coalition with Greens Financial Times
Austrian Conservatives and Greens Form Coalition Government The Wall Street Journal

Otto M. Schröder Bank
Prepared for volatile stock market times Handelsblatt

FRANCE AND BENELUX

France's Macron pledges to push through pension reform Reuters
French union calls for more strikes in response to pension reforms City A.M.
Macron promises to "carry out pension reform" La Tribune
1.2 million pensioners receive less than 1,500 euros L'Echo

Euroclear
China emerges as fifth biggest Euroclear shareholder Financial Times

ITALY AND GREECE

Italy's Government Could Collapse Six Different Ways This Month Bloomberg News
The "insurance" dilemma for professionals Kathimerini

NORDIC COUNTRIES

A $100 Billion Fund Manager Lists His Fears as Sweden Hits Zero Bloomberg News
Large differences between the services of mobile banks SvD Näringsliv

EASTERN EUROPE

Law on liberalization of currency control comes into force TASS
Default interest rate step from Central Bank Hürriyet
Bank deposits did not defeat inflation, equity funds earned ČTK

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