Banking

Bloomberg Chile’s central bank held its benchmark interest rate at a record low and said borrowing costs would stay at that level as long as needed for the economic recovery to strengthen. The bank board, led by its President Mario Marcel, kept the overnight rate at 0.5%. In an accompanying statement, policy makers wrote that economic prospects have improved. “The ...

Bloomberg Banks are lobbying the European Central Bank (ECB) to extend temporary capital relief granted during the pandemic to keep credit flowing to fragile economies, according to people familiar with the matter. Lenders on the continent have been pressing officials to be allowed to keep excluding deposits held at central banks when calculating their leverage ratio. The exemption, set to ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. has told UK-based staff that more of them will return to office working starting next month as the country begins to wind down Covid-related restrictions. The American bank said in a memo that more workers would come to its London and Bournemouth sites from June 21. The offices will operate at a maximum of 50% ...

Bloomberg Commerzbank AG posted a surprise profit in the first three months and upgraded its full-year revenue outlook, providing support to Chief Executive Officer Manfred Knof after he unveiled a new turnaround strategy to boost profitability. Revenue soared 35% in the first quarter after the bank joined peers in profiting from strong trading and investment banking conditions. That helped drive ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank is rearranging how it sells fixed-income trading products as it seeks to lower costs without sacrificing revenue from the company’s biggest source of income. The new model will divide the coverage team into two groups, one focusing on flow and liquidity and another on client solutions. That’s in an effort to provide purely electronic or voice offerings ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG will pay a $40,000 one-time bonus to its global banking analysts when they are promoted, doubling what some competitors are offering, as lenders seek to reward younger employees weighed down by a surge in dealmaking. Starting as soon as this month the Swiss bank will pay the sign-on bonus to analysts promoted to associates on top ...

Bloomberg Nomura Holdings Inc. announced business partnerships at home, Australia and New Zealand as Japan’s biggest brokerage seeks to move past a $2.9 billion hit from the implosion of Archegos Capital Management. Nomura signed an agreement with three regional Japanese banks to set up a joint venture to provide remote financial consulting services. It also struck up an alliance with ...

Bloomberg Commerzbank AG increased the amount it will pay for a job cuts program to more than 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion), as Chief Executive Officer Manfred Knof overhauls the lender to boost profitability. The German bank’s anticipated costs of “slightly above” 2 billion euros compares with an earlier estimate of about 1.8 billion euros. The lender raised its estimate ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG named Neil Hosie head of equities for Europe, Middle East and Africa, replacing Ryan Nelson who stepped down after bank lost $5.5 billion in the collapse of Archegos Capital Management. Hosie will remain as head of equities for Asia Pacific, according to people familiar with the decision who asked not to be identified since the ...

Bloomberg Investment firms shouldn’t be allowed to keep half a billion dollars Citigroup Inc accidentally sent them because the payment wasn’t due for three more years, legal experts and advocacy groups said in asking a court to overturn the ruling. A group of law professors said in a brief with the federal appeals court in Manhattan that the lower-court ruling, ...