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Barclays' £8.1 Billion Rebound: Record Pay, a £50 Billion Shadow and a Bank Refighting for Position
Barclays' 24% profit rise to £8.1bn in 2024 lifted CEO pay to £10.5m, even as a motor finance provision and a two-day outage tested the recovery.
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Hana Financial Sets a Record 3.76 Trillion Won Profit as Korean Banks Prove Fees Can Replace Margins
Hana Financial's record 3.76 trln won 2024 net profit came despite falling interest income, lifted by 15.2% fee growth and a 400 bln won buyback.
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DOM.RF Goes to Market: Inside the Planned Retail IPO of Russia's Housing Finance Institution
The Duma opened privatization of DOM.RF with the state keeping control; the government plans a retail-first IPO of 1-5% of shares worth up to 15 bln rubles.
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The Two-Speed Year of Russia's Non-Life Insurance: Kasko Booms, OSAGO Cools and Profits Hide a Currency Wound
H1 2024 non-life premiums grew 10% above 800 bln rubles on kasko's 22% surge, while OSAGO stalled and market profit fell 14.9% on currency revaluation.
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Russian Court Seizes Raiffeisenbank Shares in 195 Billion Rouble Claim Over the Cancelled Strabag Deal
A Kaliningrad court seized shares of Raiffeisenbank as security for Rasperia's 195bn rouble claim tied to the cancelled €1.51bn Strabag stake deal.
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Russia's Private-Home Mortgages Hit Record Share as IZhS Becomes the Market's Only Growing Segment
IZhS mortgages hit a record 12% share of Russia's market by number in February 2024; VTB sees 1 trln rubles of private-home lending for the year.
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