{"id":47810,"date":"2016-01-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/2015-share-price-performance-of-europes-biggest-banks\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T06:00:00","slug":"2015-share-price-performance-of-europes-biggest-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/2015-share-price-performance-of-europes-biggest-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Share Price Performance of Europe&#8217;s Biggest Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <strong>SNL Financial share price data for 2015 for 25 of Europe&#8217;s biggest banks shows that it was a mixed year for the continent&#8217;s lending behemoths.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen of the 25 banks in SNL&#8217;s sample finished down for the year, led by a 35.14% fall at Standard Chartered Plc. The U.K.-based, Asia-focused bank during the year named a new CEO, Bill Winters, and announced a capital increase alongside plans to cut 15,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Banco Santander SA finished down 30.55% for 2015 and touched a fresh 52-week low Jan. 4. Santander raised \u20ac7.5 billion in early January 2015, saying at the same time that it would cut its dividend by two-thirds and eliminate the scrip option on three of the four quarterly payments.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 10 large banks to finish in the black for the year, PAO Sberbank of Russia was the runaway leader; its shares were up nearly 86%. Intesa Sanpaolo SpA closed up more than 30%, and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale SA was up 25%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNL Financial share price data shows that it was a mixed year for Europe&#8217;s biggest lenders, with Standard Chartered and Banco Santander falling more than 30% but Sberbank rising more than 85% and Intesa Sanpaolo up more than a quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":47808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1671,1651,1437,2103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}