Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is considering raising a venture and growth fund of around $2 billion, a move that would make it a bigger player in the competitive world of technology investing, according to people familiar with the matter. A $2 billion fund for investing in growth- and venture-stage companies would be one of larger ones in the industry ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s commercial banks are financially sound and are able to withstand any economic impact from the pandemic, Bank of Thailand Deputy Governor Ronadol Numnonda said in a statement on Sunday. The banking system’s capital fund is strong with an adequacy ratio, or BIS ratio, at the “high level” of 19.2% by the end of June. Lenders are profitable and ...

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve has used only a fraction of the $600 billion in an emergency lending program for small and medium businesses struggling with the Covid pandemic, according to a congressional watchdog report. Eligible lenders participating in the Main Street program have issued $496.8 million in loans, of which $472 million is Federal Reserve money, or about 0.07% of ...

Bloomberg Rabobank Group is reviewing its commodity trade finance business, joining other major lenders in reconsidering their roles in an industry upended by recent trading scandals and the novel coronavirus. The Dutch bank, best known for financing food and agricultural traders, is analysing clients in its current portfolio. While it has no plans to exit the sector, it may choose ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. has started its long-awaited job cuts, breaking with some of its top US competitors that have resisted workforce reductions amid the coronavirus pandemic. The San Francisco-based lender, under growing pressure to lower costs, quietly ended a moratorium on terminations in recent weeks as it prepares to make deeper cuts in the months and years ahead. ...

Bloomberg Days after Citigroup Inc. made headlines for accidentally sending $900 million to a group of lenders, a Bank of America Corp. (BofA) customer in Massachusetts opened his account to find an even bigger cash infusion: $2.45 billion. But the money was never really there. “This was a display error and nothing more than that,” Bank of America spokesman Bill ...

Bloomberg Canada’s biggest banks are expected to see profits plunge for a second straight quarter due to economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic — though there are signs of improvement. The nation’s six-largest lenders will post an average profit decline of about 30% in the fiscal third quarter from a year earlier when they kick off the reporting season next ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. reversed course on a decision to force popular blogging platform WordPress to add in-app purchases to its app, a move that could help lessen tensions between Apple and developers amid a public battle with Epic Games. The WordPress said that Apple had informed it that it had 30 days to add in-app-purchases to its application, which would ...

Bloomberg Silicon Valley software notables — Unity Technologies Inc., Snowflake Inc. and Asana Inc. — are set to disclose their financials as soon as next week ahead of September trading debuts, according to people familiar with their plans. Palantir Technologies Inc., which also is planning to go public in late September through a direct listing, is nearing disclosure of its ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. told the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that the social-media company needs clear guidance on how to comply with new laws that grant consumers the right to transfer their data, without running afoul of user privacy. Regulators in Europe and California have ruled that consumers have the right to collect and move their personal information to new websites ...