Britain's biggest banks will disclose rising profits over the next two weeks. But the big four are set to resist disclosing the scale of fines and claims against them arising from the recent scandals. full story ![]()

Lloyds, which is 39 per cent taxpayer-owned, is expected to reveal pre-tax profits of £1.1bn in the first three months of the year, up more than 280 per cent on the same period last year.
dailymail.co.uk (22 days ago)
European banks are facing the threat of having to reveal their taxes and profits on a country-by-country basis in the latest twist to the EU negotiations over rules to make banks safer. The Financial Times reports.
cnbc.com (3 months and 1 day ago)

JP Morgan is to announce a rise in first quarter profits with the results likely to take pressure off the chief executive, Jamie Dimon, following the "London Whale" trading loss.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 14 days ago)

Lloyds, which is 39 per cent taxpayer-owned, is expected to reveal pre-tax profits of £1.1bn in the first three months of the year, up more than 280 per cent on the same period last year.
dailymail.co.uk (22 days ago)

Lloyds Banking Group has reported a big rise in profits for the first three months of the year, making a total of more than £2bn.
bbci.co.uk (22 days ago)
Even in a week where headline-grabbing scandals seem to be dominating all of Washington's time, concern over "too big to fail" banks continues to simmer.
yahoo.com (4 days ago)
Net profits at China's "big five" banks are expected to have risen nearly 12 percent to more than $120.74 billion in 2012, the official Shanghai Securities News reported on Thursday.
cnbc.com (2 months and 3 days ago)
I had hoped to make this a bank-free zone today but it's just not possible. You see the horsemeat affair has too many parallels with what went wrong with some of our biggest banks to ignore, and both scandals in turn have wider implications for all companies.
independent.co.uk (3 months and 4 days ago)

The major UK banks saw their core profits for 2012 wiped out by a mix of regulations and their own mistakes, a KPMG report says.
bbci.co.uk (1 month and 26 days ago)
Asos revealed a bumper new incentive plan yesterday as it posted another sharp rise in half-year profits.
independent.co.uk (21 days ago)
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