Banking

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc aims for a bigger slice of the business with German companies after adding employees and hiring a new country head. The London-based lender, which gets the majority of its revenue in Germany from retail clients, wants to double its market share in investment and corporate banking to around 6%, Ingrid Hengster, who took over as country …

  Bloomberg China’s central bank injected additional liquidity into the financial system for the first time since June as a growing mortgage-payment boycott and a virus flareup leads to a sense of crisis. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) boosted the size of its daily short-term cash operation to 12 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) from 3 billion yuan, resulting in …

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank’s (ECB) battle to restore its credibility with the financial markets just got a whole lot harder. After a week marked by a fresh crisis in Rome, MLIV readers warn Italian debt risks hitting the danger zone once more — just as a near-imminent recession intensifies the epic plunge in the euro to levels not …

  Bloomberg Nordea Bank Abp’s profit beat estimates in a turbulent second quarter for financial markets, as demand for loans and rising interest rates herald higher income from lending for the biggest Nordic bank. Second-quarter net income rises 2.8% from a year earlier, to 1.05 billion euros ($1.1 billion), according to a statement on Monday. Analysts polled by Bloomberg had …

Bloomberg India’s foreign exchange reserves dropped to their lowest in 15 months as the central bank probably stepped up its intervention to support the rupee that is testing new lows amid foreign capital outflows. The reserves falls by $8.06 billion to $580.3 billion, data released by the central bank showed. This is the second straight week of decline and comes …

  Bloomberg Latin American central banks may need to extend already long and deep rate hiking cycles to shore up battered currencies that are threatening financial stability, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysts said in a report. The region’s currencies, notably the Chilean and Colombian pesos, “are still vulnerable to an intensification of recession fears, a deterioration of economic activity in …

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc is collecting a windfall from tumultuous international markets, even as a dimming economic outlook and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pose billions of dollars in risks. The bank’s second-quarter profit soared past analysts’ estimates, driven by unexpectedly large hauls from currencies, commodities and interest-rates trading and its shuttling of corporate money over borders. Net income amounted to …

  Bloomberg A slump in client trading activity in Asia is threatening to slow a lucrative earner for the world’s biggest wealth managers. UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc are among banks whose wealth revenues for the region likely declined by double digits in the first half. Credit Suisse Group AG, which last month warned that results in the second …

  Bloomberg Australia & New Zealand Banking group is nearing a deal to acquire Suncorp group Ltd.’s banking operations as it seeks to add customer growth, according to people familiar with the matter. An announcement could be made as soon as this week and the lender will seek to tap equity markets with a share sale to help fund the …

  Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. missed analysts’ earnings estimates as the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes started to cool the once-hot housing market, hurting the company’s mortgage-lendingbusiness. Mortgage-banking income falls 79% to $287 million in the quarter, according to a statement. That missed analysts’ $392.4 million estimate and helped bring second-quarter net income down to $3.12 billion, below the $3.19 …