Banking

  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) said it hired 2,600 military veterans this year on top of a five-year goal to add 10,000. The additions mean a 24% increase in representation of veterans at the bank, according to a memo to staff seen by Bloomberg News. The number of veterans at the company is now more than 15% of ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group is shifting resources to win business from high-net-worth clients as the lender focuses more heavily on wealth management amid cuts to its troubled investment bank. The Swiss bank is reassigning advisers to its dedicated Private Banking International unit, led by Raffael Gasser, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg. The aim is to expand ...

  Bloomberg China will offer 200 billion yuan ($29.3 billion) in special loans to ensure stalled housing projects are delivered to buyers, people familiar with the matter said, ramping up financing support for its beleaguered property sector. The previously unreported size of the lending program, which was announced with scant details by China’s housing ministry, finance ministry and the central ...

  Bloomberg Euro-area businesses spent years wishing for a weaker euro. Now it’s here and it couldn’t have come at a worse time. The currency has slid more than 12% against the dollar this year, taking it below parity for the first time in two decades. That decline is boosting import costs, compounding a damaging surge in energy prices and ...

  Bloomberg As many investors pivot to strategies that profit from a drop in interest rates in Latin America, some big banks are warning that it’s too early to declare victory over inflation. Bank of America Corp (BofA) said rates in the region may stay high for longer than markets are expecting, and it’s worth holding onto positions that benefit ...

Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire consumer lender Home Credit’s assets in Indonesia and the Philippines, according to people familiar with the matter. MUFG, as Japan’s biggest lender is known, has emerged as the likeliest buyer for the businesses after outbidding other rivals, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter ...

  Bloomberg Six months after switching to a four-day working week, the UK’s Atom Bank said it has seen benefits from talent retention to improved productivity. There was a 49% increase in job applications at the bank in January 2022 compared to a year ago, while staff retention rates have also risen, according to a press release on Wednesday. Days ...

  Bloomberg In 2017, after Citigroup Inc had paid billions of dollars in fines for rigging interest rates, manipulating currency markets and selling shoddy mortgage bonds, the Wall Street giant was still struggling to keep tabs on traders in London. Managers overseeing Citigroup’s European trading hub had hundreds of blind spots, allowing for potentially abusive transactions to go unnoticed in ...

  Bloomberg Rushing to sell Indian state-run lenders to private investors may hinder the government’s financial inclusion efforts and monetary policy transmission, staff at the country’s central bank warned. “A big bang approach of privatization of these banks may do more harm than good,” wrote staff including, Snehal Herwadkar, in a research paper. The report recommended a gradual approach to ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) will stop hiking interest rates after the end of 2022, when a euro-area recession and easing price pressures will restrain monetary-policy tightening, according to HSBC. Cuts to Russian natural gas supplies and resulting surges in energy costs will drive inflation higher than previously expected, to a peak of 10% in October, HSBC economists ...