Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc will pay $192 million to resolve a decade-long US tax investigation and admitted that it helped American clients cheat the Internal Revenue Service, (IRS) according to a US judge. Prosecutors filed a charge of conspiracy to defraud the US against a unit of the bank, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, but agreed to drop it in ...

Bloomberg Barry Zamore, the head of loan trading at UBS Group AG, was terminated after engaging in an allegedly improper transaction. Zamore, 50, was dismissed at the end of October for violating firm policies, UBS said in a regulatory filing. The Swiss bank terminated him for buying back a loan at the same price from a counterparty, cancelling that transaction ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc won’t be repeating 2018’s rough close to the year. Fourth-quarter trading revenue will rise “meaningfully” from a year earlier, driven by the fixed-income business, JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Piepszak said at an investor conference. Citigroup CFO Mark Mason said at the conference that the bank’s trading revenue in the period is ...

Bloomberg Uganda will spend as much as a fifth of government revenue on interest payments in this financial year and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned this could reduce expenditure on human capital and infrastructure projects. That’s equivalent to what countries that are close to or in debt distress spend on servicing credit, according to the IMF’s country Resident Representative ...

Bloomberg European Central Bank (ECB) policy makers meeting in Frankfurt this week will discuss the prospect of launching their own digital currency, according to euro-zone officials familiar with the matter. Governing Council members were expected to talk about the topic informally at dinner on Wednesday, a day before their policy meeting under new President Christine Lagarde, the people said, asking ...

Bloomberg China is in preliminary talks to support the European Union’s (EU) backup plan for settling international trade disputes as president Donald Trump’s administration gets closer to scuttling the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) role in refereeing cross-border commerce. China’s Ambassador to the WTO Zhang Xiangchen told Bloomberg News that Beijing is actively working to support the EU’s vision of an ...

Bloomberg Twelve state-owned Indian banks are petitioning for ex-billionaire Vijay Mallya to be declared bankrupt over 1.15 billion pounds ($1.52 billion) in unpaid debts. The banks and an asset restructuring company, led by the State Bank of India (SBI), have taken the tycoon to a London court in what lawyers have described as “the end of the road” in their ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s property glut is an unintended consequence of government measures to force developers to build and sell apartments quickly or face stiff penalties, according to City Developments Ltd. The city-state’s second-biggest home builder has come out swinging against a rule that imposes a levy on companies if they don’t complete construction and sell all units within a period of ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s cabinet is discussing amending a legally imposed cap on the budget deficit, which would allow the government to spend and borrow more to stimulate growth in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. President Joko Widodo is holding talks on the matter, although for now, the current annual ceiling of 3% of gross domestic product remains, finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati ...

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google isn’t liable for defamatory content posted on its platforms after 2009, India’s top court ruled, reaffirming immunity for Internet companies in the world’s second-most populous nation. The verdict, which reiterates a 2015 ruling, comes as a relief for social media companies, online retailers and service providers who are facing increasing pressure from the Indian government to ...