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Thursday's headlines, Financials edition

Wall Street dominance over Europe's struggling banks hits record Reuters
ECB can still end bond buys this year: Coeure, Makuch Reuters

UK AND IRELAND

May's Preferred Brexit Option Is Less Costly, U.K. Taxman Says Bloomberg News
UK demands special Brexit deal on data protection City A.M.
U.K. Admits Brexit Bill Will Be Paid Even Without Trade Deal Bloomberg News
The Snooper's Charter puts UK firms on track for a GDPR headache post-Brexit City A.M.
U.K. Negotiators Haven't Pitched Irish Backstop, Officials Say Bloomberg News
London remortgages surge in the first quarter as first-time buyers prove more hesitant City A.M.
FCA to employ tough rules if groups fail to tackle sexual harassment Financial Times

Assure Hedge
Irish fintech firm Assure Hedge receives full UK authorisation The Irish Times

Aquis Exchange
Aquis Exchange lays the ground for London listing Financial Times
Challenger stock exchange Aquis prepares for £73m London float City A.M.

Bank of Ireland Group
Bank of Ireland's UK boss sees big tech firms as main rivals Irish Independent

Barclays
Board split as Barclays boss mulls bid for rival The Times
Barclays-Standard Chartered merger rubbished by City analysts as "far-fetched" City A.M.
Activist pressure brings out blue-sky M&A thinking at Barclays Financial Times
Barclays' smoke and mergers will not deflect tough questions The Guardian
Ex-Barclays Trader Says Fixing Rates Didn't Feel Like 'Cheating' Bloomberg News

Beaufort Securities
PwC slashes cost estimate for unwinding Beaufort Securities Financial Times
Reduced costs of broker Beaufort's insolvency may provide relief for small mining firms Reuters

Irish Nationwide Building Society
Fingleton takes Horan to task over INBS threat Irish Independent

Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's very well positioned in Asia-Pacific, excited about opportunity: Chaplin, Lloyd's Reinsurance News
Lloyd's of London given go-ahead to open Brussels base Financial Times

Revolut
Revolut adds ripple and bitcoin cash to its crypto selection City A.M.

RSA Insurance Group
RSA backtracks over no bonus for UK staff Post
Uproar at RSA after UK staff bonuses cut but boss Hester receives £1m City A.M.

Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered has fired a young City banker after he was revealed as a leading member of far-right political group City A.M.

GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA

German Banks See 2 Years of Capital Progress Wiped Out by Basel Bloomberg News

Allianz Group
Allianz finds fraudsters in its own ranks Handelsblatt

Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank Considers Plans for 10,000 Job Cuts The Wall Street Journal
Deutsche Bank Is Considering Increasing Job Cuts to 10,000 Bloomberg News
City jobs in firing line as Deutsche Bank mulls cutting 10,000 staff globally The Daily Telegraph
Deutsche Bank probably deletes 10,000 jobs Der Standard
Deutsche Bank's Withdrawal From Equities Goes Global Bloomberg News

Erste Group Bank
Erste Group Bank wants to go new ways with the online platform "George" Handelsblatt

Julius Bär Gruppe
UPDATE 1-Swiss bank Julius Baer's managed wealth hits record Reuters
Record high fortune with Julius Baer Finanz und Wirtschaft
Second stage victory for Bank Julius Baer in the case of the "Red Fini" Neue Zürcher Zeitung

UBS Group
MOVES-UBS merging Greater China investment banking teams, appoints heads-memo Reuters

FRANCE AND BENELUX

Head of Luxembourg's City body claims Tory infighting will be the only barrier to successful Brexit deal City A.M.

Adyen
Adyen Is Ready to Announce IPO Plans as Soon as Thursday Bloomberg News
MEDIA-Adyen ready to announce IPO plans as soon as Thursday - Bloomberg Reuters

ASN Bank
ASN Bank throws Heineken out of a sustainable equity fund Het Financieele Dagblad

Coöperatieve Rabobank
Banks enter Rabobank payment check Het Financieele Dagblad

Société Générale
Societe Generale expects resolution of LIA and Libor litigation in the coming days L'Agefi
Societe Generale still hires a former BoA ??executive L'Agefi

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

Spain Passes Delayed Budget in Boost to Rajoy's Economic Program Bloomberg News
Presidents of BBVA and Santander call for new legal framework for the digital age El Mundo
Spain pays another 3,000 million bank rescue Expansión

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
BBVA sees it necessary to update regulation to the digital world so that wealth is not "in a few hands" Europa Press

Banco Santander
The Bank of Spain releases the fall of the Popular in three lines of its annual report El Mundo
Botín (Santander) believes that Europe lags behind the US and China in not having a single market for services Europa Press

ITALY AND GREECE

ECB Prepares for Italy Standoff With Populists on Brink of Power Bloomberg News
Giuseppe Conte named as new Italian Prime Minister RTE

Assicurazioni Generali
Generali to buy Slovenian insurer Adriatic Slovenica Reuters
Generali grows in Eastern Europe MF

Eurobank Ergasias
Eurobank: Sells a portfolio of 650 properties Kerdos

UniCredit
The Maramotti this time thank Unicredit MF

NORDIC COUNTRIES

The debt gives an increased risk of Swedish financial stability Dagens Nyheter

Nordea Bank
Nordea move is expected to increase the risks in the short term Sydsvenskan

EASTERN EUROPE

Turkish central bank hikes late liquidity window rate by 300 bps to 16.5 pct Reuters
Turkish central bank raises rates sharply to prop up lira Reuters
Romania to maintain fiscal stimulus policy until 2020 -ruling party chief Reuters
Slovenian banks' bad loans fall, Q1 profit even Reuters
Hungary's central bank not stepping in to strengthen forint Budapest Business Journal

GetBack
GetBack names Przemyslaw Dabrowski new CEO Warsaw Business Journal

Sberbank of Russia
Russia's Sberbank plans to scale down Europe operations - CEO Reuters
Russian Sberbank intends to limit its activities in Europe CTK
No-Faks-checked approach costs Sberbank analyst his job Financial Times

Vnesheconombank
VEB Chairman Sergey Gorkov canceled the trip to the St. Petersburg Forum Vedomosti
"VEB takes the highest risk" Banki.ru

VTB Bank
Russia's VTB bank ready to allow Rusal to postpone loan repayments: TASS Reuters

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