Things we're reading today include …
- Lloyds first-half profits plunge as cost of PPI compensation tops £10bn
- Lloyds prepares to resume dividends
- TSB and Santander take customers from bigger banks
- Santander: Bank clawback rules threaten UK
- BNP suffers record loss after US fine
- MasterCard profit rises 10 percent as card usage grows
- Credit Suisse dragged into 'dark pool' probe
- Juncker weighs creating powerful new financial tsar
- SEC launched extensive probe to identify sources in Reuters stories
- Russian sanctions create burden for UK banks
- Bankers don't deserve our grapes of wrath
- Keeping the cyber thieves at bay
This week's Economist: