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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…Harvey Nichols warns it could stop trading within a yearDirectors filed accounts on a break-up basis, and Mike Ashley's Frasers Group is now favourite to buy the chain after Next walked away, with bidders reportedly being asked to commit £50m-£60m in tu…Women's portfolios beat men's by 0.4 points a year, againFidelity data spanning a decade shows female clients outperforming male peers annually while trading roughly half as often, a pattern that holds because men trade 45% more and eat the fees and tax …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…Prudential's asset management arm bails out a soft insurance quarterPrudential beat estimates because its asset management division is now doing the heavy lifting that its core insurance business used to provide, a rebalancing that changes how the stock should be v…Jefferies uncovers fresh evidence of fake invoices at troubled fundNew documentation strengthens the fraud case against the fund, raising the odds Jefferies pursues litigation rather than a quiet write-down.BMO just moved $5 billion of corporate loan risk off its balance sheetBMO has completed significant risk transfer (SRT) deals covering $5 billion in corporate loans, a mechanism that lets banks offload credit risk to institutional investors like pension funds and ins…Ex-Goldman banker accused of paying a 'holy rain' of bribesUS prosecutors say a former Goldman Sachs banker funnelled what they've termed a 'holy rain' of bribes, the latest thread pulled from the 1MDB scandal that's already cost Goldman $2.9 billion in fi…Korean margin traders are back at the tables just as brokers call the unwind overSouth Korean brokers are telling clients the forced margin-call unwinding that hammered the Kospi is nearly finished, and retail traders have responded by piling straight back into the leveraged be…Australian bank rally burns short sellers betting on a lending slumpThe short thesis on Australian banks was straightforward: household debt is high, property is overvalued, and a lending slowdown was overdue. It hasn't arrived, and the rally in ASX-listed banks ov…Circle just accused a Tether-linked fund of gaming the marketStablecoin issuers policing each other's trading desks is new territory, and it tells you the post-IPO scrutiny on Circle is forcing disclosures that used to stay in Slack channels. The dispute cen…BNPL finally gets FCA-style guardrails, and lenders feel it firstBuy now pay later providers coming under formal consumer protection rules means affordability checks, refund rights and clearer rejection processes become mandatory rather than optional goodwill ge…Oncoclinicas' debt rework is a warning on Brazilian healthcare leverageAn out-of-court restructuring is the polite version of a company admitting it overbuilt on borrowed money. Oncoclinicas, Brazil's largest oncology clinic network, is reportedly filing for an out-of…Zilch's CEO has become UK fintech's unexpected political operator. That is a more durable edge than product.The profile of Philip Belamant, Zilch's founder, as UK fintech's de facto power broker reflects something the sector has needed for years: an operator willing to spend political capital rather than…Dish files for bankruptcy with $9bn in debt. The satellite TV era is formally over.Dish DBS has filed for bankruptcy to restructure $9bn in debt, following the collapse of a deal with AT&T that would have provided a route forward for the satellite TV business. Dish is not shuttin…The RBA says it will be better prepared next time. Every central bank says that after a crisis.Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Christopher Kent's claim that the RBA would be better equipped to handle the next financial crisis follows the standard post-mortem arc: identify what w…Cancelled card loophole is letting fraudsters continue charging accountsWhich? has identified a vulnerability where recurring charges continue hitting cancelled card numbers because card networks route them through updated credentials, meaning consumers who cancel a ca…Taiwan's retail investors borrowed heavily to ride a 100 percent rally. The leverage is the story.Taiwanese retail investors have taken on significant margin debt to chase a stock market that doubled, with reported anecdotes of individuals going deep into personal loans to amplify exposure to w…Ofcom just told the government that banning social media the Australian way will not work hereOfcom's public warning that Australia-style under-16 social media bans may not be effective in the UK is significant because it narrows the government's legislative options precisely when ministers…Lloyd's of London: the world's oldest syndicated risk marketplace finds a second life as a case study in distributed underwriting that every insurtech founder is quietly copying.The 330-year-old institution is increasingly cited in fintech circles as proof that 'podshop' models, small specialist underwriting teams operating inside a shared infrastructure, predate Silicon V…Kia Oval Test generates £80m for UK economyThe England-Zimbabwe Test match at the Kia Oval is estimated to contribute £80 million to the UK economy this week, a number that sits awkwardly alongside every conversation about whether Test cric…Dimon dismisses private credit as systemic threat despite losses aheadJPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the $1.8 trillion private credit market is too small compared to $13 trillion bond and mortgage markets to pose systemic risk, even as he predicted "higher than antici…