Banking

  Bloomberg China called on banks to boost real estate lending in the first quarter and eased a key debt restriction for developers, a sign that authorities are becoming increasingly concerned about the industry’s liquidity crisis. In previously unreported window guidance issued last month, regulators told banks to step up lending to developers after at least two quarters of consecutive ...

Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S has cut 60 jobs as part of plans to reduce costs and operate with a smaller labour force. The cuts were made across the organization in January, Karsten Breum, head of human resources at the Copenhagen-based bank, said in an emailed statement. Denmark’s largest bank, which is due to publish 2021 earnings on Thursday, currently employs ...

  Bloomberg The Czech central bank raised borrowing costs to the highest level in the European Union, (EU) delivering what’s probably its last large increase and outlining a relatively dovish outlook for the rest of the year. The koruna weakened. Policy makers raised the benchmark rate to 4.5% from 3.75%, as predicted by a majority of economists in a Bloomberg ...

  Bloomberg Danske Bank falls the most in three months in Copenhagen trading after cost-cutting measures by Denmark’s biggest bank failed to yield the results expected by the market. The shares slid almost 6% before regaining some ground to trade down 3.3% in the Danish capital. The bank’s guidance on costs for this year was worse than expected, Jyske Bank ...

  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) sold $9 billion of bonds, joining Wall Street peers in a flood of new deals at the start of 2022 to beat an expected rise in interest rates. The lender sold bonds in five parts, according to a person familiar with the matter. The longest portion, an 11-year fixed-to-floating-rate security, yields 117 basis ...

  Bloomberg Mexico’s central bank will probably raise the key interest rate this month, and then follow inflation data and US Federal Reserve decisions closely to decide its next moves, Banxico board member Jonathan Heath said. The debate for February’s decision will be whether to increase borrowing costs by a quarter point or half a point, he noted in a ...

  Bloomberg Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA said it will review the position of its chief executive next week, signalling a response to government pressure to replace him amid talks with the European Union (EU) over the nationalised bank’s future. The bank announced that “an item of corporate governance” concerning Chief Executive Officer Guido Bastianini had been added ...

  Bloomberg Citigroup created a new team inside its trading division that will focus on working more closely with minority depository institutions and diverse broker dealers and asset managers. The firm’s new diverse financial institutions group team will be led by Harold Butler, a senior banker who spent 16 years covering the US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve System ...

  Bloomberg Thailand is preparing rules for the setting up of virtual banks, set to join peers including Singapore and Malaysia in promoting financial technology to spur competition and wider access to banking services. The Bank of Thailand (BOT) plans to issue guidelines for digital banks by June and may allow existing lender and new applicants to seek licenses, Assistant Governor ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) shouldn’t view the issuing of a digital currency as a monetary policy option as doing so could severely damage the economy, according to a former BOJ official who led research into digital money. “Some say that negative interest rates could work more effectively with a digital currency, but I don’t think so,” said ...