Bloomberg Nordea Bank Abp’s activist investor Cevian Capital wants management to conduct an in-depth review of its wholesale banking activities after years of underperformance. Christer Gardell, managing partner at Stockholm-based Cevian, said that “it’s obvious that the segment is not performing,” in emailed comments to Bloomberg. That’s why Cevian thinks Nordea needs to do “a thorough review of the size ...

Bloomberg The Indian lender that’s been most hurt by a yearlong shadow banking crisis in the nation is getting a reprieve after a local media report that it’s in early talks to sell a stake to an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd-backed company. Shares of Yes Bank jumped as much as 8.5 percent on Wednesday. While the lender is the worst ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Ghana is strengthening its capacity to regulate lenders and avoid a repeat of a sector cleanup which cost the West African nation more than 14 billion cedis ($2.5 billion). The central bank’s supervision unit is employing more staff and acquired a new IT system to monitor compliance, Osei Gyasi, head of the division, told a conference ...

Bloomberg Pound volatility is at emerging-market (EM) levels and UK assets are set for a substantial repricing once the Brexit outcome becomes known, according to Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney. Carney made the comparison, which echoes a long-standing quip on trading desks, at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. When asked to comment ...

Bloomberg The pain from the Fed’s rate cuts is a little worse than the biggest US banks expected. JPMorgan Chase & Co reduced the annual net interest income target it set two months ago, joining Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co in lowering the bar. Longer-term rates have continued to fall as investors expect the Federal Reserve to continue ...

Bloomberg Societe Generale (SocGen) SA is studying ways to save 600 million euros ($662 million) in annual costs tied to its operations in Paris, part of an effort to win back investor confidence and improve returns. The review, known internally as “Ithaque,” started in June, according to a person familiar with the matter. No decision has been made and the ...

Bloomberg Embattled Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd reported its biggest drop in passenger traffic in more than a decade after facing heavy backlash from China in the wake of its employees joining protests in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s flag carrier and its Cathay Dragon unit carried 2.9 million passengers in August, down 11 percent from a year earlier, the company said ...

Bloomberg British Airways cancelled dozens of flights on Wednesday as it wrestled with the fallout from a two-day pilot strike. While more than 90 percent of services will operate as normal, the morning timetable is subject to changes as the UK arm of IAG SA works to get hundreds of planes and pilots back into position, the carrier said in ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co’s troubled 737 Max jets are unlikely to return to service until early 2020 as regulatory authorities in the US and Europe remain divided and the planemaker has yet to submit its finalised software fix planned for this month, according to Barclays. In a note lowering forecasts for the company, analyst David Strauss estimated the company’s free cash ...

Bloomberg Hermes International says growth in greater China remains rapid despite months of protests in the luxury shopping hub of Hong Kong. A “slight acceleration” in mainland China will offset the impact from store closures in Hong Kong, which was most significant in August, Hermes Chief Financial Officer Eric du Halgouet said on a conference call. “Globally, our performance in ...