The 2016 Triennial Central Bank Survey of foreign exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market activity shows that US dollar-denominated instruments overtook euro-denominated instruments as the most actively traded OTC interest rate derivatives.

Only three of Spain's top 13 banks reported a year-on-year rise in net interest income in the second quarter, and at least seven saw net interest margin fall. Only Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (BBVA) and Bankinter SA reported double-digit returns on average equity.

Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy- & sell-side firms, today announced that MarketAxess Europe Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings Inc . (Nasdaq:MKTX), has deployed Ancoa's market surveillance capabilities across its European fixed-income multilateral trading facility (MTF).

The Global ICI decreased to 89.7, down 8.3 points from July's revised reading of 98.0. The decline in sentiment was driven by a decrease in the North American ICI from 99.8 to 89.5 and the European ICI from 92.4 to 86.8, along with the Asian ICI falling 2.0 points to 106.1.

Erste Group Bank AG flagged up loan growth in Slovakia and the Czech Republic as it reported a surge in second-quarter return on average equity to 17.1%, double the first quarter's level. UniCredit Bank Austria AG's 28% rise in first-half net attributable profit was almost entirely driven by a doubling of gains in central and eastern Europe.