After the collapse of Switzerland’s second-largest bank, Credit Suisse, investors looking for the next bank failure fixed their eyes on Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank. The tell-tale signs of blood in the water appear in a bank’s share price and the cost of its credit-default swaps (CDS). Equity investors last week sold off Deutsche Bank…

Banks in the European Union should beware of fake news triggering a run on their deposits, the bloc’s banking watchdog warned, concerned about a potential fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war. “An escalation of the war might trigger an increase in liquidity risks,” the European Banking Authority (EBA) said in its Risk Dashboard report published on…

European bank stocks have been on an upward trend since the third week of December following the announcement by the Federal Reserve regarding interest rate hikes by early spring, indicating better business prospects for financial institutions with higher rates and greater margins. The Stoxx Europe 600 Banks Index has gone up 9.8 percent in one…