Banking

Bloomberg NatWest Group Plc beat profit forecasts in the third quarter, yet shares in the British lender fell as analysts highlighted a squeeze on loan margins and the bumpy transformation of its markets unit. The UK’s biggest corporate lender said operating profit before tax rises to $1.5 billion, almost double analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. While demand for home loans ...

Bloomberg Barclays Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley is stepping down amid a UK regulatory probe into how he characterised his ties to the financier Jeffrey Epstein. Staley, 64, is leaving, according to a statement. CS Venkatakrishnan, who was promoted last year to run the Barclays markets division and was previously chief risk officer, will replace him as CEO. The bank ...

Bloomberg China is pushing almost a trillion yuan ($156 billion) of funds into the banking system in just two weeks, reinforcing a signal that it will use short-term liquidity to sustain growth rather than ease monetary policy. In a pattern seen also in September, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has been injecting huge amounts of cash through open-market operations ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG Chief Financial Officer James von Moltke said the investment bank is pressing ahead with hiring in areas including mergers and acquisitions and rates in the US to grow its business. The firm has also been selectively hiring for government bond trading in Europe as well as in technology and healthcare dealmaking, Von Moltke said on a ...

Bloomberg India reappointed central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das for another three-year term, keeping the career bureaucrat at the helm to help guide the economy’s recovery from the ravages of Covid-19. The decision, announced in a statement from the cabinet and effective when his current term ends December 10, ensures continuity in monetary policy settings and signals to investors that any ...

Bloomberg Banco Santander SA is seeing the strongest demand for UK mortgages in “many, many years,” helping to underpin growth at the Spanish lending behemoth as it positions for higher interest rates globally, Chief Financial Officer Jose Garcia Cantera said. Lending for mortgages to British individuals climbed 4.4% from a year earlier to 174 billion pounds ($240 billion), Santander said ...

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA will start a 900 million-euro ($1 billion) stock buyback after posting a 79% jump in equities trading and adding twice as much revenue as expected at its domestic markets unit. Strength in the two businesses helped offset a slump in fixed income trading that was twice as steep as the average decline at the biggest Wall ...

Bloomberg A former Wells Fargo & Co. investment adviser stole nearly $3 million from clients and used the money for personal expenses and to buy gold coins, federal prosecutors said. Kenneth A. Welsh, 41, was arrested at his home in River Edge, New Jersey on charges that he misappropriated funds from the accounts of five investors between 2016 and 2021, ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG posted a surprise jump in profit as wealth management fees soared the most in almost three years and the firm followed Wall Street rivals in seizing on the deal boom. The Zurich-based bank topped expectations on most key metrics, including investment banking pre-tax profit that was almost double what analysts had predicted. At the key wealth ...

Bloomberg As executives from JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank AG and other lenders prepare for the most important UN climate summit in six years, their companies continue to help provide almost as much money for fossil fuels as for green projects. Scientists have made clear that time is running out to prevent a climate catastrophe. Yet this ...