https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Two former bank employees are on trial in Graz for murdering and dismembering one of the bank’s customers - a 54-year-old Styrian millionaire - after he discovered they had stolen €80,000 from his accounts. https://www.thelocal.at/20150429/defendants-blame-each-other-in-bank-murder-trial Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:25:03 +0200 defendants-blame-each-other-in-bank-murder-trial Some 25 eurozone banks have failed a health check by the European Central Bank (ECB), reports claimed Saturday, citing leaked documents. https://www.thelocal.at/20141025/volksbank-fails-eu-financial-stress-test Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:29:00 +0200 volksbank-fails-eu-financial-stress-test A Viennese banker has been convicted of embezzlement in the Criminal District Court and sentenced to an unconditional term of three years and nine months. https://www.thelocal.at/20141007/banker-jailed-for-embezzling-1-4-million-euros Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:40:00 +0200 banker-jailed-for-embezzling-1-4-million-euros According to a report from German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, the Austrian government has frozen the assets of a company controlled by Mykola Azarov, the son of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, together with a Ukrainian businessman named as Serhiy Kurchenko. https://www.thelocal.at/20140902/austria-freezes-ukrainian-pms-sons-assets Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:36:00 +0200 austria-freezes-ukrainian-pms-sons-assets Police in Linz have arrested a 45-year-old woman on suspicion of committing at least two armed bank robberies. https://www.thelocal.at/20140826/suspected-female-serial-bank-robber-arrested-in-linz Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:38:00 +0200 suspected-female-serial-bank-robber-arrested-in-linz An international arrest warrant has been issued by Bulgaria through Interpol for fugitive Bulgarian banker Zvetan Vassilev, who is believed to be residing in Vienna. https://www.thelocal.at/20140814/bulgarian-banker-wanted-by-interpol-sought-in-vienna Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:54:00 +0200 bulgarian-banker-wanted-by-interpol-sought-in-vienna In a briefing Thursday morning, Erste Bank chief Andreas Treichl announced that the expected losses for the second quarter of 2014 were reduced to only €1.033 billion. https://www.thelocal.at/20140731/erste-bank-group-quarterly Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:15:00 +0200 erste-bank-group-quarterly Austrian banks have spent €44 billion (US$60 billion) to cover bad loans since the world-wide financial crisis erupted in 2008, according to an announcement by Austria's national bank on Monday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140707/austrian-banks-lose-44-billion-from-bad-debts Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:01:00 +0200 austrian-banks-lose-44-billion-from-bad-debts Police are searching for an overweight, ‘older’ woman after a bank robbery in Kleinmünchen, Linz. https://www.thelocal.at/20140704/older-woman-robs-linz-bank Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:45:00 +0200 older-woman-robs-linz-bank Thirty-one bank accounts at banks in Horn in Lower Austria have been completely emptied, including overdrafts, by high-tech pirates operating from Vietnam. More than €100,000 was stolen. https://www.thelocal.at/20140704/bank-accounts-plundered-by-vietnamese-pirates Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:33:00 +0200 bank-accounts-plundered-by-vietnamese-pirates The Austrian banking conglomerate Erste Group delivered bad news to its shareholders on Thursday, when it announced expected losses of between €1.4 and €1.6 billion for 2014. Its shares plunged 16.4 percent on Friday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140703/erste-bank-group-expects-14-billion-losses Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:14:00 +0200 erste-bank-group-expects-14-billion-losses The new stress tests which Europe's banks are being subjected to might be too strict, the head of the Austrian central bank, Ewald Nowotny, warned in a newspaper interview Monday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140616/stress-tests-too-strict-for-austrian-banks Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:53:00 +0200 stress-tests-too-strict-for-austrian-banks Police are searching for the body parts of a 54-year-old Styrian man, allegedly murdered and hacked to pieces by two employees of Deniz bank in Graz. https://www.thelocal.at/20140527/gambling-addiction-blamed-for-macabre-murder Tue, 27 May 2014 13:55:00 +0200 gambling-addiction-blamed-for-macabre-murder