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ABN AMRO raises guidance after profit jumps 29%Q2 net profit hit €781 million, well above the €686 million analysts expected, pushing the bank to lift its 2026 commercial NII guidance to €6.8 billion and cut cost guidance to €5.5 billion, now f…Europe's carmakers are running out of rare earths, and China knows itOnly around a quarter of Chinese export license applications for rare earth magnets have been approved since Beijing tightened controls, according to CLEPA, and European auto suppliers have already…Revolut adds France to its banking licence collectionFrance becomes the latest market where Revolut can operate as a fully licensed bank rather than an e-money outfit, deepening a European push that's already put it under national banking regulators …Hungary's central bank makes the case for the euro, againMNB governor Mihaly Varga wants Hungary in the euro area as a competitive, well prepared economy, with the bank's own modelling pointing to 0.6 to 0.9 percentage points of extra annual GDP growth a…Wizz Air's £170m loss is the Hormuz risk premium made visibleWizz Air posted a £170m loss and warned that elevated fuel costs tied to the Iran conflict could wipe out full-year profit entirely. Budget carriers run on wafer-thin margins built around cheap fue…Raleigh's owner files for insolvency, putting a 137-year-old brand at riskThe parent company of Raleigh, the bicycle brand that's been manufacturing in Britain since 1887, has started insolvency proceedings, putting the future of the name itself in question. Raleigh surv…Rheinmetall cuts sales outlook as Germany scraps warship projectBerlin's cancellation strips a chunk of expected revenue from Europe's biggest defence contractor, a reminder that even the rearmament boom has budget limits.LGT's Japan push chases wealth Switzerland can't reachLiechtenstein's LGT expanding private banking in Japan is a bet that Japanese wealth creation, driven by a weak yen boosting export earnings and a stock market at multi-decade highs, has outgrown t…Explosives drone found at Leipzig airportGerman police are treating the discovery as a serious security breach, with flights disrupted while investigators establish who flew it and why. Europe's airports have had a rough eighteen months o…Waymo drops the waitlist in Dallas, opens robotaxis to everyoneWaymo removing the waitlist in Dallas means it's confident enough in fleet reliability and regulatory standing to serve any rider who opens the app, not just vetted early adopters. Dallas becomes a…Europe is heading into winter with gas storage at the lowest level in yearsEuropean gas storage sits at historic lows for this point in the season, a position that leaves the continent with far less buffer than it had going into the last two winters when Russian pipeline …Wildfires are disrupting France and Spain travel as heat intensifiesRail and flight delays are already hitting routes near the affected regions, and UK holidaymakers with August bookings should check operator advisories before travelling rather than after arrival.Ford handing Geely a Spanish foothold is an admission, not a partnershipFord's European business has been bleeding market share to Chinese EV makers for two years, and this tie-up effectively invites one of them into the factory rather than fighting them in the showroo…SAP's cloud growth can't offset a lowered profit guideCloud revenue climbed, but slowing growth rates forced a trimmed operating profit outlook, and investors are pricing the deceleration harder than the absolute numbers.Iberdrola pays $2.3 billion to own Finland's grid outrightBuying 80% of Caruna gives Iberdrola direct control of a regulated Finnish electricity distribution network at a moment when European utilities are racing to lock in grid assets ahead of an expecte…Uber's €12.5bn Delivery Hero deal is a bet that food delivery consolidation still has room to runUber closing in on Delivery Hero would hand it dominant positions across Europe, Asia and Latin America in one move, markets where Uber Eats has struggled to build density on its own. Delivery Hero…State Department sends $3m to MAGA-aligned groups in EuropeWashington funding ideologically aligned groups abroad is the kind of soft-power spending that will draw sharp questions from European governments already wary of US political interference ahead of…UK-Switzerland deal quietly extends Britain's post-Brexit e-gate diplomacyEvery bilateral e-gates deal Britain signs is really a small admission that the EU relationship isn't giving UK travellers frictionless movement anymore, so London is patching it country by country…Le Pen is cleared to run for the French presidency. The political risk premium on European assets just changed.A French court has confirmed Marine Le Pen can stand in the 2027 presidential election despite her conviction over misuse of EU funds, removing what many had assumed was a blocking mechanism. The i…The BIS says AI exuberance threatens the global economy, and it has a pointThe Bank for International Settlements is not given to hyperbole, which makes its warning about AI-driven financial exuberance worth taking seriously. The BIS argument is mechanistic: concentrated …Ryanair dropped its family seating fees the moment the regulator looked. That timing is the whole story.Ryanair has scrapped charges for families to sit together after the Civil Aviation Authority launched a formal probe, a capitulation that arrived with suspicious speed for a policy the airline had …Europe's airport chiefs say the EU's new biometric border system is failing and they cannot hide it any longerThe head of ACI Europe saying publicly that the Entry/Exit System is not working is significant precisely because airports have financial and diplomatic incentives to stay quiet on this. The EES wa…VW used sealed bids to stop a private equity firm with shareholder backing from winning by defaultVolkswagen's decision to run a sealed-bid process for its engines business, reported at a $10 billion price target, is an admission that EQT had assembled enough shareholder support to make an open…Apollo and Bain are leading the Continental ContiTech auction, and the debt package tells you what lenders think of European carve-outs right nowApollo and Bain Capital have advanced to the front of the pack in the auction for Continental's ContiTech industrial unit, with a valuation range of roughly 3.5 billion to more than 4 billion euros…Barcelona ABS conference hits record attendanceGlobal ABS 2026 recorded over 5,570 attendees in Barcelona, with Day 2 panels pivoting from Europe's securitisation scale-up to navigating geopolitical risk and private credit's evolution into a "n…Intesa prepares Monte dei Paschi bid to block rival mergerItaly's biggest bank is mobilizing to torpedo a merger that would create a serious rival. Banco BPM unanimously approved a letter to Monte dei Paschi proposing an aggregation that would create Ital…Spain hits tourism records as Middle East fears divert flowsSpain welcomed 9.1 million visitors in April, the highest April figure on record, as geopolitical tensions push tourists away from traditional Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean destinations.…Dutch youth employment model shows way forwardThe Netherlands achieved the EU's lowest youth unemployment rate at 8.7 percent versus 14 percent in the UK through a "no dead ends" philosophy linking education, work, and training. Youth employme…EU fines Temu €200m for dangerous productsThe European Commission hit Temu with a €200 million fine for failing to assess risks from illegal baby toys and defective chargers sold on its platform. Mystery shopping found a 'very high percent…ECB's Guindos signals weaker growth must factor into June decisionThe ECB's vice president added his voice to calls for considering economic weakness alongside inflation risks in next month's rate decision.European gas plunges 8% on U.S.-Iran deal optimismDutch TTF futures dropped over 8% to €46-48/MWh as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. Is "nearing the end of the war in Iran" and expects gas prices "with a three in front of it." The m…EU buckles to Trump's trade deadlineBrussels fast-tracked ratification of its new trade deal with the US after Trump threatened sharply higher tariffs beyond his 15% baseline. The agreement locks in a $750 billion energy purchase com…Jefferies raids Standard Chartered for metals chiefJefferies hired Gideon Volschenk from Standard Chartered to lead its metals and mining investment banking in EMEA, signaling aggressive expansion in energy transition deals. The move comes as globa…US cuts Europe troops to pre-Ukraine levelsThe Pentagon plans to withdraw about 5,000 troops from Germany, reducing the US force posture in Europe from four brigades to three and returning to roughly pre-Ukraine invasion levels. The move co…Vox becomes kingmaker in Spain's biggest regionVox increased its seats to 15 in Andalusia's regional election, giving the far-right party decisive power over Spain's most populous region after the conservative PP fell short of a majority. The r…European airfares set to rise as fuel refining capacity tightensIATA's Willie Walsh called higher European airfares "inevitable" as Middle East refining constraints push jet fuel premiums above crude oil gains. Aviation Week reports fuel typically represents 20…Greek tourism minister promises no summer border delaysResearch insufficient: provided sources contain UK travel advice but no reporting on Minister Kefalogianni's statement about biometric checks or border processing times.Trump delays EU tariff threat to July 9 after von der Leyen callDonald Trump walked back his June 1 threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on EU goods, extending the deadline to July 9 after Ursula von der Leyen requested serious negotiations. The pattern is famil…Australia's IFM targets European defense as NATO rearmsAustralia's IFM Infrastructure, which manages $200bn in pension assets, is hunting European defense investments as NATO's rearmament drive creates infrastructure opportunities beyond traditional we…Raimondo: Europe's industrial strategy is fragmentingFormer Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo highlighted Europe's industrial policy struggles at a CFR event, noting the continent's $250 billion clean energy investment pales against America's $370 bil…