August 17, 2025

Regulatory

Finance

AU Small Finance Bank has to fulfil one precondition to become universal lender

“My shareholding has to be shifted to the NoFHC structure, where we need to figure out the process and the modalities,” Agarwal said. “We just got it (the approval) last night, so it takes some time, but it should not be so complex in my opinion. Also, we need to change our name from AU

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Banking

Two visions of European finance clash at elite Italian banking gathering – POLITICO

It began last year, when Milanese banking giant UniCredit angered Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government by attempting to take over crosstown rival BPM, which Meloni had hoped to merge with the partially bailed-out Tuscan lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena. In response, Rome deployed screening tools known as the ‘golden power’ — whose purpose is

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Banking

Trump banking cop threatens global financial security, warns top US Democrat – POLITICO

“Mr. Quarles spent his tenure as a top financial regulator in the United States weakening safeguards for megabanks at the expense of financial stability and the American public,” said Warren, a former U.S. presidential hopeful who is the most senior Democrat on the Senate banking committee. “It would be deeply troubling if this FSB review

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Banking

EU resurrects banking practice that caused the 2008 financial crisis – POLITICO

In the pre-2008 lending boom, American banks sold their dodgiest “subprime” loans to investors around the world. When the U.S. housing bubble burst and borrowers defaulted en masse, a global financial crisis ensued. Brussels now wants to loosen the rules governing the practice, meaning banks would need to put aside less capital against the loans

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Funds

DOGE leaves $1B on the table in misused COVID-19 relief funds

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut a little-known bureau in its ranks that was trying to recoup more than $1 billion in improper payments dispersed to providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump administration announced the dismantling of the HHS on March 27. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the public

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