Banking

  Bloomberg Banks are ramping up or extending efforts to protect their staff and business continuity in Hong Kong as authorities struggle to contain a fifth wave of Covid infections in the city. At Morgan Stanley, non-critical staff in some groups have been told to work from home starting Monday, said a person familiar with decision, who asked not to ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) has “every reason” not to respond as forcefully as the Federal Reserve to soaring consumer prices, according to President Christine Lagarde. “We’re all in very different situations,” Lagarde told the France Inter radio station on Thursday in an interview. Inflation is “clearly weaker” in the euro area, while the region’s economic recovery is ...

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc said it has hired 5,500 young employees for its Asia businesses over the last two years, ahead of its target to recruit 6,000 by 2023, after stepping up efforts to help cushion the region from soaring youth unemployment amid the pandemic. Consumer banking operation has taken up 48% of the overall hires, followed by 31% for ...

  Bloomberg The Riksbank may soon have to abandon its dovish monetary policy and start raising rates in response to inflation overshooting its 2% target, according to Swedbank economists. The bank’s main scenario is that a first policy rate hike in early next year will be followed by a second one later in 2023. However, there is a risk that ...

  Bloomberg Ukraine may increase borrowing costs further as concerns over a potential war with Russia pushed the country’s currency to the weakest level in a year. The central bank signalled last month that interest rates will continue to rise, although only a narrow majority of analysts in a Bloomberg survey expect such move at the meeting on Thursday. Five ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank gave the first signs Thursday that it will begin normalising policy, even as it left its benchmark interest rate unchanged. Bank Indonesia kept the seven-day reverse repurchase rate at a record-low 3.5% at its first monetary policy meeting of 2022, as predicted by all 29 analysts in a Bloomberg survey. In a briefing in Jakarta, ...

  Bloomberg The balance sheets of Ireland’s biggest banks have risen by two thirds since the Brexit vote, the latest data to demonstrate how Europe’s financial landscape is shifting following the UK’s departure from the European Union. Banks in Ireland regulated by the ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) saw their balance sheets increase from 300 billion euros ($342 billion) in ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG’s Chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio resigned after just nine months in the role, following a series of missteps including reported breaches of Swiss and UK quarantine rules that eroded confidence in his leadership. His departure follows an investigation commissioned by the board, Zurich-based Credit Suisse said in a statement. The bank named board member Axel P. ...

  Bloomberg Executives at banking giants including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. are struggling to return to Hong Kong after the city banned flights from eight countries, part of an outlier Covid Zero strategy that’s threatening its appeal as financial hub. At least a dozen Hong Kong-based managing directors at banks, also including Morgan Stanley and ...

  Bloomberg Canadian banks are bringing forward their forecasts for interest rate hikes to as early as next week, amid growing evidence the economy is hitting limits and inflation pressures are rising. Economists at TD Securities and Laurentian Bank said the Bank of Canada will start a hiking cycle at its policy decision on January 26. Bank of Montreal brought ...