Banking Weekly show

Banking Weekly

Summary: Each week the FT banking team discuss the biggest banking stories of the week, bringing you global insight and commentary on the top issues concerning this sector. To take part in the show or to comment please email audio@ft.com You can find more financial services news from the Financial Times on our website and listen to more episodes of FT Banking Weekly on iTunes, Stitcher, Audioboom or Soundcloud.

Podcasts:

 New rules on ringfencing, the falling oil price and payday lenders | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:10

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the way UK banks are adapting to new rules on ringfencing, how exposed global banks are to the falling oil price, and the effect of the lending cap on UK payday lenders. He is joined by the FT's Martin Arnold, Emma Dunkley and by Giles Williams, who looks at European regulation at KPMG.

 Looking ahead to 2015 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:11:33

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Martin Arnold, Sam Fleming and Emma Dunkley to discuss their predictions for 2015: changes at the top of the world's biggest banks, regulators' shift in focus from bonuses to fixed pay, digitisation of challenger banks and more

 Has structural reform in European banking stalled? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:44

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Martin Arnold, Emma Dunkley and Marco Mazzucchelli, a former member of the Liikanen commission on European structural change in banking, to discuss the European Commission's apparent move to row back on its recommendations, plus the latest developments in UK banking and the Bank of International Settlements report highlighting the dangers of the ever strengthening dollar for emerging market corporate debt.

 Spat over the senior manager's regime, Nationwide results and the FT's banking summit | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:24

Patrick Jenkins discusses the latest spat between the UK Treasury select committee and banks over the senior managers regime, Nationwide results, and the FT's debut banking summit with Martin Arnold, Sam Fleming and Emma Dunkley, and they are joined by Anthony Brown, chief executive of the British Bankers Association.

 UK admits defeat on bonus cap, insider trading probe at BNP Paribas and a torrid week for RBS | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:10:17

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Sam Fleming, Emma Dunkley and Michael Stothard to discuss the UK decision to drop its challenge to the EU bonus cap, the latest developments at BNP Paribas, where top executives are being investigated for alleged insider trading, and a torrid week for RBS which was fined for an IT systems failure and revealed it got its figures wrong in the recent stress tests

 Forex reform, Standard Chartered woos investors and Mark Carney on bankers' pay | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:16

Patrick Jenkins in joined by Daniel Schäfer, Sam Fleming, Emma Dunkley and Marshall Bailey from the ACI, the association that represents the foreign exchange industry, to discuss how to reform the industry in the wake of the recent trading scandal, Standard Chartered's Hong Kong roadshow, and Bank of England governor Mark Carney's speech on financial reform, including bankers' pay.

 ECB stress tests and more cuts at Credit Suisse and in UK retail banking | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:21

Martin Arnold is joined by Daniel Schäfer, Emma Dunkley and Sam Fleming, as well as Kinner Lakhani of Citigroup to discuss whether the European Central Bank’s asset quality review and stress tests have cleansed the continent’s banking system of its problems, Credit Suisse’s announcement of further cuts to its investment banking division and more job losses in UK retail banking

 Bankers pay, US bank results and peer-to-peer lenders move mainstream | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:22

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Martin Arnold, Daniel Schäfer, Sam Fleming and Emma Dunkley, as well as Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority, to discuss bank remuneration as the battle intensifies between Europe and the UK, US bank results and what they mean for European banks about to report their results, and whether peer-to-peer lenders are going mainstream.

 IMF meetings, Deutsche Bank exodus and Aldermore flotation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:11:34

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Sam Fleming, Daniel Schäfer and Emma Dunkley to discuss what came out of last week’s IMF meeting in Washington, the exodus of traders from Deutsche Bank, and signs that the flotation of Aldermore, a newish bank may be in trouble

 Cyber crime, new bank regulatory rules and payday lending | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:16

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Martin Arnold, Sam Fleming, Alistair Gray and Emma Dunkley, as well as James Daley, from the consumer rights body Fairer Finance to discuss cyber crime and the latest hit to JPMorgan in the US, the Bank of England’s new regulatory rules affecting banks, and a warning that payday lenders may be about to be extinguished from the market.

 Bankers' pay, the forex trading scandal and KPMG's subsidised mortgage deal | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:13:53

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Sam Fleming, Emma Dunkley and Harriet Agnew, as well as Clifford Chance's Simon Gleeson to discuss bankers pay, the latest on the foreign exchange trading scandal and KPMG's innovative deal to subsidise mortgages for its staff

 ECB TLTRO auction, Scotland's No vote and the foreign exchange trading probe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:13:07

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Martin Arnold, Sam Fleming and Daniel Schäfer, as well as Huw van Steenis of Morgan Stanley, to discuss the ECB’s latest policy initiatives as the first figures emerge in the so-called TLTRO auction of cheap money, the impact of the No vote in Scotland on banks and businesses and further developments in the foreign exchange trading probe.

 Replacement of Barclays chairman, Scottish independence debate and new Santander chief | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:39

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Martin Arnold, banking editor and Sam Fleming, financial policy correspondent, as well as Tobias Buck, Madrid bureau chief and Simon Hayes, partner at Odgers Berntson, to discuss the appointment of John McFarlane as Barclays chairman, the Scottish independence debate and the change of leadership at Spanish bank Santander.

 ECB initiatives to boost bank lending, Brussels disquiet over bankers' allowances and nervousness ahead of the Scottish referendum | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:27

Patrick Jenkins is joined by Richard Hopkin from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe and Sam Fleming to discuss the latest European Central Bank policy initiatives to boost bank lending. Daniel Schäfer looks at unease in Brussels over the way investment banks seem to be getting around bonus restrictions and Sam Fleming looks at growing nervousness ahead of the Scottish independence referendum.

 Lloyds' Libor fine, Deutsche's letter from the Fed and the rise of independent boutiques | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:08

Martin Arnold is joined by Sharlene Goff for news that Lloyds has been fined £226m for its part in the Libor manipulation scandal. Included in this was £8m for attempts to reduce the amount it paid back to British taxpayers following its government bailout. Daniel Schäfer reports on Deutsche Bank, which has received a letter from the US Federal Reserve that was highly critical of the quality and reliability of its reporting. And finally, Harriet Agnew joins Daniel and Martin to discuss the continued rise of boutiques, as former UBS chair Luqman Arnold joins former Glencore chair Simon Murray and three other senior partners so establish a new advisory business.

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