Tag Archives: Banking

Bank of America will be biggest winner from Main Street banking boom: analyst

Main Street banking is poised to see the best growth since the 1980s, when Madonna and Michael Jackson were on MTV, Ronald Reagan was in office, and everyone had long hair and wore neon attire. And Bank of America (BAC) will be the biggest winner. That’s according to Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo, who told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday that traditional banking revenue will grow the same way it did in the 1980s, creating a boom for the industry in the next three years. Moreover, BofA stands… Source link

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Russia-addled Wall Street may be banking on a rescue: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, February 24, 2022 Why things aren’t as bearish as they appear Dispatches from Wall Street — where tensions between Russia and Ukraine turned hot overnight, displacing fears of inflation fighting central bankers — have become decidedly bleak these days. Cratering stocks are “on a war footing,” as Barron’s said this week, which… Source link

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Google halts plans for Google Pay-based banking service

Google has stopped working on its Plex service, which aimed to let you do your banking through the Google Pay app. The service was supposed to let users sign up for checking or savings accounts offered by a variety of traditional banks that the user would then manage through the app. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Google canceled the project due to a series of missed deadlines and because an executive who pushed for the project left the company. Plex wasn’t meant to… Source link

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Cannabis CEOs signal confidence on banking law reform

Marijuana advocates have been stacking victories over the last few years at the state level with nearly 20 U.S. states having now approved adult recreational marijuana use. But even as momentous as those changes have been, reform at the federal level has proved elusive — until now, if you trust the confidence coming from the leaders of America’s largest cannabis companies. This week, Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers and Curaleaf Executive Chair Boris Jordan both wagered on Yahoo Finance Live that the… Source link

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Yandex N : completed acquisition of a bank and obtained a banking license

Moscow and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 16, 2021 – Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced that it has completed acquisition of 100% of Acropol Bank. The transaction received an approval from the Central Bank of Russia on July 5, 2021. As previously disclosed, the total consideration amounted to approximately RUB 1.1 billion (appx. $14.7 million), of which… Source link

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Goldman Sachs posts Q2 earnings blowout, powered by investment banking

Goldman Sachs (GS) reported second-quarter earnings results on Tuesday that far exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, driven by strength in investment banking. Here were the key figures versus expectations:  Adjusted earnings per share (EPS): $15.02 per share vs. $10.15 estimate Revenue: $15.39 billion vs. $12.43 billion estimate Goldman’s investment banking business posted its second-best quarter ever with $3.61 billion, following a record first quarter. Revenue from investment banking… Source link

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