The largest global banks will have to hold more capital and liabilities than previously reported that can automatically be written off in a crisis — as much as a quarter of risk-weighted assets — as regulators take on lenders deemed too big to fail. . .

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-06/global-banks-face-25-loss-absorbency-rule-in-fsb-plan.html

Citigroup Inc. said Javier Arrigunaga resigned as chief executive officer of Grupo Financiero Banamex, the most senior departure stemming from an alleged $400 million fraud disclosed in February. . .

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-03/citigroup-s-banamex-ceo-arrigunaga-resigns-torres-cantu-named.html

CBI says companies have reported rising profits and strongest rise in business volumes since 2007 . . .

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/06/uk-financial-services-growing-fastest-rate-crisis

Banker compensation may get more complicated and have fewer zeroes if the International Monetary Fund has a say. . .

http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2014/10/06/imf-time-has-come-for-big-changes-in-banker-pay/

Moldova plans to charge four or five bankers with money laundering, saying they helped shift as much as $20 billion in illicit cash from Russia to Latvia. . .

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-30/bankers-targeted-in-20-billion-moldovan-laundering-case.html

Jean-Claude Juncker has deprived Britain’s Lord Hill of lead responsibility for overseeing financial sector pay in a serious setback for London that will help disarm critics in the European parliament. . .

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102034890

Germany’s second-largest lender Commerzbank AG  is being investigated by the Manhattan U.S. attorney for alleged violations of money-laundering laws, the Wall Street Journal reported.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/27/uk-commerzbank-fraud-idUKKCN0HM00N20140927

Lloyds Banking Group has dismissed eight staff members following an investigation into the manipulation of some key interest rates set in London. . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29410742#

A US judge has ruled that the Republic of Argentina is in contempt of court for refusing to obey an order to repay the debt it owes to two US hedge funds. . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29415608#

The European Union’s top regulator is poring through bankers’ contracts as it polices the bloc’s new bonus caps, according to two people familiar with the matter. . . .

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-22/banker-contracts-under-scrutiny-as-eba-polices-bonus-cap.html