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Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is opening a new office in Birmingham, marking the investment bank’s second UK location outside London. The new building is set to open in the third quarter of 2021 and will eventually have several hundred staff across a number of divisions, the bank said in a statement on Tuesday. Engineering will be the first business ...

Bloomberg India’s markets regulator fined Yes Bank Ltd. for claiming that riskier bonds it sold to individual investors were as safe as term deposits. Securities & Exchange Board of India ordered Yes Bank to pay $3.3 million after it “deliberately misrepresented” the Additional Tier 1 notes, “by suppressing the inherent risks of these bonds and distorting facts to mislead their ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank says the rupiah is “very undervalued” following a two-month slide. Investment banks and money managers are predicting further losses. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says climbing US yields and a potentially firmer dollar will keep hurting Indonesian assets in the near term, while PineBridge Investments Asia Ltd. says the rupiah will keep sliding due to the global ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank asked the nation’s major lenders to curtail loan growth for the rest of this year after a surge in the first two months stoked bubble risks, according to people familiar with the matter. At a meeting with the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) on March 22, banks were told to keep new advances in 2021 at ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG unloaded about $2.3 billion worth of stocks tied to the Archegos Capital blowup more than a week after some rivals dumped their shares and skirted losses. The Swiss bank hit the market with block trades tied to ViacomCBS Inc, Vipshop Holdings Ltd and Farfetch Ltd, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The stocks ...

Bloomberg Almost six months after Goldman Sachs Group Inc recommended shorting the dollar, it’s calling it quits on the trade. In a note titled “tactical retreat,” Goldman’s currency team closed its recommended short greenback position against a basket of Group-of-10 commodity currencies, including the Australian and New Zealand dollars. The firm joins hedge funds and other investors capitulating on bearish ...

Bloomberg Japan’s largest bank will rebuild its 40-year-old headquarters in Tokyo’s financial district as the lender prepares for a post-Covid world that will also see some compliance roles shift to India. The new building will “significantly reduce” facility expenses for the financial group by bringing together about 19,000 workers who are currently located in nine different locations across the downtown ...

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank kept its key policy instruments unchanged Tuesday following the cooling of a global bond selloff and as the impact of record-low interest rates on asset markets comes into focus. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe and his board held the cash rate and three-year yield target at 0.10% and made no changes to the ...

Bloomberg Singapore once again warned the public about the risks of trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, a market that while relatively small in the city-state surged in significance over the past year. “Cryptocurrencies can be highly volatile, as their value is typically not related to any economic fundamentals,” Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said in response ...

Bloomberg China’s financial regulators plan to impose additional capital requirements on the nation’s systemically important banks, seeking to curb risks and safeguard stability of the $49 trillion industry. Banks considered too big to fail will be put into five categories and face a surcharge of between 0.25% and 1.5% on top of the mandatory capital adequacy ratios, the People’s Bank ...