Central banks running low on ways to fight recession, warns Mark Carney Financial Times
Central banks might struggle to fight deep downturn-Carney Reuters
UPDATE 2-Ireland, Slovenia, Portugal open euro zone's 2020 bond ledger Reuters
Investors Urge Private-Equity Industry to Improve Transparency The Wall Street Journal
Europeans should control their B-to-B data, says EU commissioner Reuters

UK AND IRELAND

Bank of England and FCA to ramp up City data trawl Financial News
UK financial watchdogs to hone data crunching to spot problems sooner Reuters
Javid Rejects Call to Delay Bailey's Bank of England Appointment Bloomberg News
UK watchdog warns insurers to clean up their act Financial Times
British watchdog tells bosses to end bad behavior in insurance Reuters
S&P says UK banks will 'ease' rather than 'roar' into 2020s City A.M.
Business groups sceptical on government review of freelance tax Financial Times
Exclusive: City of London councillors call for associate guild to admit female members City A.M.
Up to 85% of Irish firms likely to be impacted by Brexit The Irish Times

Barclays
Former Barclays banker admits Qatar deal was 'close to the line' Financial Times
Barclays Is First European Bank to Face Vote on Climate Change Bloomberg News
Barclays investors tell bank to stop backing fossil fuel The Times
Barclays pressed to stop financing some fossil fuel groups Financial Times
Barclays recruits Goldman's former banking head in France Financial News

Burford Capital
Burford Capital says U.S. class action lawsuit dismissed Reuters
Burford to pursue US listing after short attack The Times

Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Columbia Threadneedle axes performance fees on UK retail funds Financial News

esure Group
Esure appoints CFO Post

Fundsmith
Fundsmith chief Terry Smith takes £16m home (to Mauritius) The Times

HSBC
HSBC declares a 5% stake in OHL Expansión

Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's CEO John Neal: 'I faced bullying without realising it' Financial News

Standard Chartered
StanChart Hires Technology Risk Expert finews.asia

Travelex
Travelex Outage Blamed on Ransomware Attack The Wall Street Journal
Hackers demand $3m ransom from travel money firm Travelex The Times
Travelex down to pen and paper as it suffers ransomware attack Sky News

Woodford Investment Management
Woodford and partner shared £13.8m in dividends in final year Financial Times
Fury over Woodford payout The Times
Neil Woodford and his business partner pocketed £14m in dividends before fund's collapse Sky News
Smaller Woodford fund changes name, gets lower return target Reuters

GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA

Bawag Group
Linz / Bawag process: swap contract "never existed" Die Presse

Credit Suisse Group
Credit Suisse Builds APAC Quant Team finews.asia
Swiss climate activists appear in court over Credit Suisse 'tennis' protest Reuters

Hannover Re
Hannover Re adds nearly $75m more Seaside Re cat bond lites Artemis

Julius Bär Gruppe
Julius Baer's Thailand JV Replaces CEO finews.asia

sum.cumo
Sapiens acquires German-based Insurtech sum.cumo Finextra

UBS Group
UBS Wealth Unit Revamp Gathers Pace With 500 Jobs Set to Go Bloomberg News
UBS to Cut Up to 500 Jobs in Wealth Management Shake-Up The Wall Street Journal
UBS to cut 500 jobs in wealth management overhaul Financial Times
UBS Revamps Private Bank finews.com

FRANCE AND BENELUX

France publishes a new black list of "tax havens" Le Figaro
French unions blockade refineries in bid to stop pension reform Reuters

AXA Banque
AXA Banque transfers its IT and part of its back office to Arkéa L'Agefi

ING Groep
ING places 'samurai sword for traders' in spin-off De Tijd

Société Générale
Société Générale is ready for consolidation L'Agefi

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

Banco Santander
Autonomous US head leaves for Santander board role Financial News

BBVA
The judge agrees to extend the secret of actions on BBVA contracts with Villarejo El Mundo
BBVA launches a campaign to capture SMEs and self-employed competitors Expansión
BBVA places 1,250 million non-preferential senior debt at seven years with twice the demand Expansión
Bank: Spanish BBVA takes its first steps on Amazon La Tribune

ITALY AND GREECE

Greek Saga Ends With the Closing of IMF's Office in Athens Bloomberg News
NB: Interest rates are close to zero Naftemporiki

UniCredit
Mubadala cuts UniCredit stake by more than half to 2.02%: filings Reuters

NORDIC COUNTRIES

The Danish FSA provides green light for the sale of old debt FinansWatch
The Danish pension sector bought foreign bonds for DKK 129 billion. DKK last year FinansWatch

DNB
DNB has refused customers who pollute to get loans: - Lower emissions give lower interest rates E24
Norwegian big bank wins case after firing of employee with ludomania FinansWatch

Nykredit
Nykredit imposes negative interest rates on private bank customers Finans

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
Wallenbergerne's new Danish boss will have key departments in SEB playing together FinansWatch

EASTERN EUROPE

CBRT gave approximately 7 billion liras to the market through repo auction Hürriyet
MNB swap stock remains unchanged after tender Budapest Business Journal

Bank Millennium
BCP bank in Poland plans to cut up to 260 jobs Jornal de Negócios
Millennium is preparing redundancies after the acquisition of Euro Bank Rzeczpospolita

Santander Bank Polska
Santander increased franc reserves abruptly Rzeczpospolita
SANTANDER BANK POLSKA SA Creating a significant provision PAP
Santander BP to take PLN 357 mln hit to group pre-tax profit in Q4 from extra provisioning PAP

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