Financial services

Switzerland's biggest bank UBS on June 7 pushed back the publication of its quarterly results by over a month as it completes its acquisition of fallen rival Credit Suisse.

The bank pushed the publication of second quarter results initially planned for July 25, to Aug. 31.

BELGRADE - The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Executive Board decided on Thursday to raise the key policy rate by 25 bp to 6.25 pct.

It also raised the deposit and lending facilities rates to 5 pct and 7.5 pct, respectively.

The spread between interest rates on loans and deposits is decreasing significantly, mainly after the recent increases in interest rates on new term deposits by Greek banks, according to the Hellenic Bank Association (HBA).

The interest rate spread between new deposits and loans increased to 5.60 percentage points in April, as the weighted average interest rate on new deposits remained almost unchanged at 0.25%, while the corresponding rate on new loans increased to 5.85%, the Bank of Greece said on Tuesday.

Athens International Airport shareholders have given the go-ahead for the sale of a 30% stake in the country's biggest airport by privatization agency TAIPED, a senior official from the agency said on Thursday.

The state-owned Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund has hired Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank to act as advisers on the sale of its stake.

A federal judge said Wednesday that he won't block JPMorgan's legal efforts to blame a former executive of hiding Jeffrey Epstein's decades-long sex abuse to keep the financier as a client.

Türkiye's Central Bank has decided to keep its policy rate -one-week repo auction rate- unchanged at 8.5 percent.

Some 8.6% of the profitability of Greek banking groups came in 2022 from abroad, where profits before taxes amounted to 380 million euros out of a total of €4.5 billion, which was the profitability of the entire banking system in Greece last year.

BELGRADE - The National Bank of Serbia Instant Payment System (NBS IPS) processed 360,741 payments on Monday, May 15, reaching its new daily record high.

Climate activists are using shareholder meetings to turn up the heat on corporations about their carbon footprints, from flooding them with questions to more colorful tactics like singing or throwing cake at executives.