Banking

Bloomberg Siam Commercial Bank Pcl will maintain banking staff levels as Thailand’s biggest lender restructures its business spinning off some units into a new company. There will be no job losses at the banking operations, Chief Executive Officer Arthid Nanthawithaya said in Bloomberg Television interview on Monday. Siam Commercial will focus on profitability, fintech investments and other growth opportunities in ...

Bloomberg The Polish Supreme Court’s inability to provide guidance in Swiss franc-mortgage lawsuits gives local banks an opportunity to resolve their multi-billion zloty disputes directly with borrowers, according to the country’s financial markets regulator. The cases against about a dozen of Polish financial institutions, including PKO Bank Polski SA and Commerzbank AG’s unit MBank SA, have surged in recent months ...

Bloomberg India’s banks need to raise funds from markets for their growth rather than depend on the government for recapitalisation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. “Banks are today less burdened because books are cleaner,” Sitharaman said at the annual general meeting of the Indian Banks’ Association. “As a result they will able to go and raise money from markets. I ...

Bloomberg The biggest US banks appear to be sidestepping any fallout from the crisis at indebted developer China Evergrande Group that sparked a widespread selloff in stocks this week. Citigroup Inc has no direct lending exposure to Evergrande, a spokeswoman said. JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America Corp also have no such links. Bank of America has no ...

Bloomberg Pressure is building for the municipal-bond market after a selloff in US Treasuries this week, according to Barclays Plc. Rates market volatility is one of the challenges facing state and local debt performance in the near-term, according to a September 24 note by strategists Mikhail Foux, Clare Pickering and Mayur Patel. Municipal bonds have posted losses this week but ...

Bloomberg The Italian government and UniCredit SpA are making progress in talks on a deal for the takeover of troubled lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA and could sign a preliminary accord by the end of the year. The Rome-based Finance Ministry is working to meet UniCredit’s demands in a deal that may cost the state more than ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank continued to pump liquidity into the financial system as policy makers sought to avoid contagion stemming from China Evergrande Group spreading to domestic markets. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has injected a net 460 billion yuan ($71 billion) of short-term cash into the banking system in the past five working days, including 70 billion yuan. ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s next strategy will consider themes such as growth in Asia, and it may include acquisitions, Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing said, in the first indication of his vision beyond the current turnaround strategy. Sustainability and providing risk management solutions to companies are other topics the lender is looking at as it starts planning for the future, ...

Bloomberg Traders are seeing hints that India’s central bank is seeking to drain record liquidity from the banking system, another sign that the global flood of pandemic-era easy money may begin to ease. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is increasingly shifting its forex intervention to the forwards market to keep from injecting rupee liquidity, according to traders and economists, ...

Bloomberg Barclays Plc was sued for $326 million for its alleged involvement in a derivatives debacle that nearly put a Dutch affordable-housing provider out of business. Stichting Vestia came close to collapse in 2012, after racking up more than 2 billion euros in losses after derivatives that were supposed to be part of a hedging strategy were found to be ...