Banking

Bloomberg David Russell, a senior Morgan Stanley trading executive, who helped lead the firm’s equities business to the top of the pack on Wall Street, is leaving the firm. Russell, who joined the bank in 1990 and has been co-head of the unit since 2018, will retire at the end of the year, according to an internal memo. His fellow ...

Bloomberg The surge in the dollar this month to its strongest levels in decades has won a tacit endorsement from Washington, offering little official restraint to the currency in a notable shift from past occasions. Congressional hearings with key policy makers including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have seen barely a mention of the greenback’s ...

Bloomberg India’s central bank may be pivoting to the spot market from forwards in its attempts to shield the rupee from fresh record lows — in order to minimise the knock-on effects of its intervention strategy. Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) foreign-exchange reserves have fallen by about $30 billion since the end of May to $573 billion, according to its ...

  Bloomberg Julius Baer Group Ltd said the worst of the market selloff may be over for the Swiss wealth manager after a first half that was one of the most difficult in decades. Clients have started to come back and will probably look for ways to make money again in the second half, CEO Philipp Rickenbacher said. First-half profit ...

  Bloomberg The National Crime Agency (NCA) has seen a surge in so-called suspicious activity reports filed by banks and other regulated institutions in the UK since February. The NCA, Britain’s equivalent of the FBI, gave an update on the figures for the first time. The notices, which detail concerns around sanctions breaches as well as money laundering and terrorist ...

  Bloomberg The head of BNP Paribas SA’s business catering to hedge-fund clients has left for UBS Group AG, a blow for the French bank as it attempts to build out the division. Ashley Wilson, head of prime finance at BNP Paribas, will become head of financing at Zurich-based UBS’ global markets division, according to people familiar with the matter. ...

  Bloomberg Banco Santander SA was eliminated from the bidding process for Citigroup Inc’s Mexican unit, opening the way for a takeover by a local rival. The Spanish lender made a non-binding offer for Banamex but has been informed it isn’t proceeding to the next stages of the process, it said in a regulatory filing on. Mexican President Andres Manuel ...

  Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc is bolstering its commodity trade-finance business, helping the industry cope with the surge in liquidity needs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Japanese bank is splitting its agriculture and metals desks in London, after setting up shop in Amsterdam earlier this month. It has also stepped up lending to core clients, as war-related ...

  Bloomberg HSBC has agreed to sell its Russian unit to local lender Expobank, the latest international bank to exit the country following its invasion of Ukraine. The London-based firm said in a statement that it had reached a deal without disclosing the transaction amount. Bloomberg reported this month that talks on a sale of the business to Expobank were ...

  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) posted an increase in net interest income with the lender reaping the benefits of Federal Reserve rate hikes, while second-quarter results were hurt by higher expenses related to regulatory settlements. Net interest income, a key source of revenue for the bank, rose 22% to $12.4 billion in the second quarter on higher rates ...